Category Archives: identifiers

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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Do not underestimate cleaning your data!

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Jane Stevenson

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 →

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Unique Identifiers for Archives in a Linked Data World

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Jane Stevenson

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 →

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