{"id":1197,"date":"2011-04-18T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2011\/04\/opening-data-opening-doors-the-national-archives\/"},"modified":"2011-04-18T11:00:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T10:00:39","slug":"opening-data-opening-doors-the-national-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2011\/04\/opening-data-opening-doors-the-national-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Data &#8211; Opening Doors: The National Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next up, Nick Kingsley from the National Archives.<\/p>\n<p>For &#8216;non-archivist&#8217; a whistlestop tour:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc\">\n<li>Archival holdings consist of collections (or &#8216;fonds&#8217;) representing any number of archival objects &#8211; these are primary units of management<\/li>\n<li>Collections often have &#8216;natural&#8217; or imposed structure<\/li>\n<li>Ideally catalogue are linked to authority records for names and places + taxonomies for subjects<\/li>\n<li>Archive users typically use both search and browse to aid resource discovery<\/li>\n<li>Archive catalogues compile over long periods (a century or more in some cases) &#8211; so inconsistencies\/changes in language etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8216;National Register of Archives&#8217;  &#8211; start of &#8216;aggregation&#8217; for archives &#8211; computerised and then made available online throughout 80s and 90s<\/p>\n<p>Funding silos meant outcomes of &#8216;Archives Online&#8217; report published by Nationa Council on Archives (1998) were taken forward through a series of different projects &#8211; but all with committment to interoperability to allow for integration or cross-searching. Projects include:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/a2a\/\">A2A<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/archiveshub.ac.uk\/\">Archives Hub<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim25.ac.uk\/\">AIM25<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Archives Wales<\/li>\n<li>SCAN (Scotland)<\/li>\n<li>JANUS (HE in Cambridgshire)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>About 5 years ago, a view started to emerge that future not about aggregations &#8216;doing it for&#8217; archives, but individual archives publishing their own catalogues online &#8211; but &#8220;usually proved disappointing&#8221; (personal view of Nick) &#8211; because:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc\">\n<li>contrained by lack of technical support<\/li>\n<li>2 widely adopted commercial platforms &#8211; developments limited to those supported by &#8216;majority&#8217; cusomters<\/li>\n<li>Rarely offer robust search\/browse<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>National Archives committed to supporting and promoting open data. Also has been pioneer in exploiting the potential of Linked Data &#8211; through <a href=\"http:\/\/legistlation.gov.uk\">http:\/\/legistlation.gov.uk<\/a> and also looking at Linked Data version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/PRONOM\/Default.aspx\">PRONOM<\/a>  (impartial, definitive information about file formats, software products and other technical components) &#8211; see the National Archive &#8216;labs&#8217; page <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/01\/linked-data-and-pronom\">http:\/\/labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/01\/linked-data-and-pronom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of work going on at the National Archives &#8211; see <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\">http:\/\/labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/wordpress\/index.php<\/a>. Also looking at a review of the National Register of Archives and considering a linked data approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next up, Nick Kingsley from the National Archives. For &#8216;non-archivist&#8217; a whistlestop tour: Archival holdings consist of collections (or &#8216;fonds&#8217;) representing any number of archival objects &#8211; these are primary units of management Collections often have &#8216;natural&#8217; or imposed structure Ideally catalogue are linked to authority records for names and places + taxonomies for subjects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}