{"id":1559,"date":"2013-03-07T16:28:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2013-03-10T14:29:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T13:29:53","slug":"triples-to-trenches-linked-data-in-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2013\/03\/triples-to-trenches-linked-data-in-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Triples to Trenches &#8211; Linked Data in Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lianne Smith from King&#8217;s College London Archives<\/p>\n<p>Archives have records\/papers from Senior Military personnel (I think I got that right?) [update 10th March 2013: thanks to David Underdown in the comments below for clarifying that Lianne was referring to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/library\/collections\/archivespec\/collections\/lhcma.aspx\">Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>See Archives at KCL being innovative &#8211; and latest project is in Linked Data space.<\/p>\n<p>Lianne is an archivist, not a technical specialist. 18 months ago, hadn&#8217;t heard of linked data &#8211; so a beginners view.<\/p>\n<p>Context: Preparation for centenary of the start of the First World War &#8211; other institutions also doing work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1914.org\">www.1914.org<\/a>\u00a0(Imperial War Museums)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europeana1914-1918.eu\">www.europeana1914-1918.eu<\/a>\u00a0(Europeana)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jiscww1discovery.net\">www.jiscww1discovery.net<\/a>\u00a0(JISC funded project based at Mimas)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>KCL had already contributed to the latter of these.<\/p>\n<p>Report had highlighted the problem of locating resources and searching across information sources &#8211; even within institutions. Report particularly noted that if content wasn&#8217;t surfaced in Google searches it was a lot less &#8216;discoverable&#8217;. Also lack of clear vocabulary for WWI materials &#8211; so wanted to establish a standard approach building on existing thesauri etc.<\/p>\n<p>Also Triples to Trenches built on previous project funded by JISC &#8211; particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/openmetadatapathway.blogspot.co.uk\/\">&#8220;Open Metadata Pathway&#8221; and &#8220;Step Change&#8221; <\/a>projects &#8211; creating easy to use tools which would enable archivists to publish linked open data within normal workflows and without specialist knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Aims of Trenches to Triples included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Creation of API to share data created using <a href=\"http:\/\/openmetadatapathway.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/11\/alicat-8-out-of-10-archivists.html\">Alicat tool<\/a> (output of Step Change project)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Adaption of catalogu front end for visualistation of linked data entities<\/li>\n<li>Creation of Linked Data WWI vocabulary of peronal names, corporate name, place and subject terms &#8211; available for reuse by archives sector<\/li>\n<li>Also act as a case study of Linked Data in archives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Within Alicat Places are based on Google Maps data &#8211; which &#8216;makes it simpler&#8217; [although the problem with using contemporary maps when the world changes&#8230;] [also note that looking at a Place &#8216;record&#8217; on data.aim25.ac.uk there is a GeoNames link &#8211; wonder if this is where the data actually comes from? E.g.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data.aim25.ac.uk\/id\/place\/scapafloworkneyscotland\">http:\/\/data.aim25.ac.uk\/id\/place\/scapafloworkneyscotland<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Outcomes of project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Creation of WWI dataset and integration into AIM25-UKAT<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesons learned in the creation of the dataset concerning identification of the level of granularity required and the amount of staff time which needs to be invested in preparation<\/li>\n<li>different users have very different requirements in terms of granularity of data<\/li>\n<li>Team included WWI specialist academic &#8211; identified a good resource for battles &#8211; could reuse existing data<\/li>\n<li>Different users also use variation of terms in their research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>More work on the front-end (User facing UI) presentation of additional data\n<ul>\n<li>Being able to integrate things like maps into UI is great<\/li>\n<li>Need to work more on what sort of information you want to communicate about entities &#8211; especially things like Names &#8211; unlike location where a map is obvious addition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Need to increase the availability of resources as linked data<\/li>\n<li>need to increase understanding and training in the archives sector\n<ul>\n<li>This approach is hugely reliant on understanding of the data &#8211; need archivists involved<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>need ongoing collaboration from the LODLAM community in agreeing standards for Linked Data adoption<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lianne Smith from King&#8217;s College London Archives Archives have records\/papers from Senior Military personnel (I think I got that right?) [update 10th March 2013: thanks to David Underdown in the comments below for clarifying that Lianne was referring to the\u00a0Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives] See Archives at KCL being innovative &#8211; and latest project [&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-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","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=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}