Author Archives: petej

URIs, identity, aliases & "consolidation"

Posted on May 13, 2012 by petej

Jane has written a few posts recently on our efforts to improve the stability of URIs used for pages about archival resources on the “live” Archives Hub service, and as far as possible we’ll be trying to reflect the changes … Continue reading →

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From EAD to Linked Data: Talk at UCL

Posted on March 14, 2012 by petej

Last Friday, at the invitation of Jenny Bunn, I visited UCL to talk to some of her postgrad students on the MA course in Archives and Record Management about Linked Data in general and the experiences of the LOCAH and … Continue reading →

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Linking Lives as Mashup: more on Aggregation and Provenance

Posted on December 12, 2011 by petej

(I drafted this post at the same time as Jane was working on the previous post, and I’ve amended it slightly to pick up on some of the points Jane highlighted. I think I’ve focused on slightly different aspects of … Continue reading →

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On managing licences and other graph-level metadata

Posted on October 28, 2011 by petej

As a follow-up to Jane’s post on licensing, I thought I’d write up a few notes looking at some of the practical challenges of managing the Hub linked data and the licence(s) that apply to it. I’m not an expert … Continue reading →

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