Category Archives: archival context

NISO Information Standard Quarterley on Linked Data

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Jane Stevenson

The NISO publication, Information Standards Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2012, is dedicated to Linked Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums. It includes an article on the Linking Lives project. The article can be found at http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2012/v24no2-3/stevenson/ It includes sections on: the background … Continue reading →

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GLAM Rocks! – Libraries, Media & The Semantic Web hosted by the BBC

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Adrian Stevenson

I had the very great pleasure of speaking at the ‘Libraries, Media & The Semantic Web’ event hosted by the BBC Academy last Wednesday, along with folks from the New York Times, the BBC, Google in the guise of Schema.org, … Continue reading →

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Designing an Interface: some first thoughts

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Jane Stevenson

One of the aims of the Linking Lives project is to demonstrate the value of Linked Data through the creation of an end-user interface that pulls in content from the Hub Linked Data, including the external data sets we are … Continue reading →

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One Person in Context – Working with Biographical Histories

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Jane Stevenson

I have been starting to think about the user interface for Linking Lives. We will probably go for something quite simple in terms of layout, because there is quite a bit of complexity when bringing together a range of data … Continue reading →

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