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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/
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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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Tag Archives: VIAF
URIs, identity, aliases & "consolidation"
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
Posted in archival description, identifiers, linked data
Tagged annotation, consolidation, identity, URI, URI aliases, VIAF
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