Category Archives: archival description

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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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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