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Linking Lives explored ways to present Linked Data. We aimed to show that archives can benefit from being presented as a part of the diverse data sources on the Web to create full biographical pictures, enabling researchers to make connections between people and events.
Linking Lives built upon the Locah project. Locah was a JISC-funded project to expose the Archives Hub descriptions as Linked Data.
Archives Hub Linked Data now available at http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/
Categories
- archival context (4)
- archival description (3)
- barriers (5)
- benefits (2)
- biographical history (1)
- branding (1)
- cross-domain (1)
- data cleaning (1)
- data processing (2)
- evaluation (1)
- events (1)
- identifiers (4)
- interface (4)
- licensing (2)
- linked data (8)
- open data (2)
- researchers (1)
- Uncategorized (1)
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Recent Posts
Locah Project Resources
- Data modelling for archival Linked Data
- Finding, using and creating vocabularies
- Designing URI patterns
- Transforming archival data into RDF/XML and other formats (e.g. using XSLT)
- Thoughts on architecture and workflows for exposing archival data as Linked Data.
- Creating Linked Data views (e.g. using the Paget Framework)
- Querying Linked Data using Sparql
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Category Archives: barriers
Linking Lives Evaluation Report
This blog is based upon a report written by colleagues at Mimas* presenting the results of the evaluation of our innovative Linked Data interface, Linking Lives. The evaluation consisted of a survey and a focus group, with 10 participants including … Continue reading →
NISO Information Standard Quarterley on Linked Data
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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Do not underestimate cleaning your data!
In Linked Open Data: The Essentials (Bauer, Kaltenbock) The first steps given for publishing your content as LOD are: 1. Analyse your data 2. Clean your data 3. Model your data …and it goes on to very helpfully summarise the … Continue reading →
Unique Identifiers for Archives in a Linked Data World
Our Linked Data work has thrown up a significant number of challenges around the consistency and structure of the source data from the Archives Hub, and nowhere more so than around identifiers for the archival resources, that is, the references … Continue reading →
Archives & Linked Data Meetup
With the various Linked Data projects that are happening around Linked Data in archives, I thought the time seemed right to get together and share what we have done, what we think and what we see as the challenges around … Continue reading →