Category Archives: linked data

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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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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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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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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Archives & Linked Data Meetup

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Jane Stevenson

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 →

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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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