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'Linked Data and the Step change Project: archive authorities, AIM25 and CALM ’

'Linked Data and the Step change Project: archive authorities, AIM25 and CALM ’. Geoff Browell, Senior Archives Services Manager, King’s College London Robert Baxter, Senior Archivist, Cumbria Archive Service. Partnerships. AIM25: archive collection descriptions for London

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'Linked Data and the Step change Project: archive authorities, AIM25 and CALM ’

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  1. 'Linked Data and the Step change Project: archive authorities, AIM25 and CALM’ Geoff Browell, Senior Archives Services Manager, King’s College London Robert Baxter, Senior Archivist, Cumbria Archive Service

  2. Partnerships • AIM25: archive collection descriptions for London • Cumbria Archive Service: Local authority service • University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) • Axiell • Historypin

  3. Step change • Builds on the JISC Open Metadata Pathway project • Improve archive cataloguing and link archive repositories more effectively with external services in order to help users and make archive collections more accessible • Nov 2011-July 2012

  4. Aims • Make more efficientthe process of indexing & cataloguing • Embed Linked Open Data in day-to-day archive workflows • Turn archive-related authority data into live services • Enhancing the research value of archive catalogues by providing links to parallel or complementary services • Demonstrate the broader value of Linked Data within organisations • Reuse of archive catalogues in new and interesting ways – mixing content with useful data

  5. Objectives • Turning the UK Archival Thesaurus into a Linked Data version and live service • Development of the workflow tool from OMP – a tool for processing, validating and approving Linked Data ‘entities’ • Implementing UKAT and workflow tool in CALM • Tool that connects archive descriptions about places with the Historypin mapping service

  6. Challenges 1: data & technical • Place name vocabularies – different standards and inconsistencies • Moderation and editing of LOD datasets • Uri vocabularies; EAD; proprietary systems • APIs – lack of availability • Information quality – LOD exposes poor quality or ambiguous information, which means more retroconversion & re-cataloguing – how is this funded?

  7. Challenges 2: other issues • Rights – for example reuse of maps out of context; re-use of datasets • Training: archivists & other information professionals • Developing different services to jigsaw and connect – dependencies • User experience – danger of information overload and visual appearance/display standards

  8. Next steps • Axiell: development of tools to analyse and validate archive catalogues & related tools in CalmView (for CALM10) • Historypin: tool to show relevant archive catalogue information alongside images • AIM25: redevelopment of back-end and front end to express linking with other services • Robust user testing and roadmap (professional and end-users)

  9. Related JISC projects • Trenches to Triples: World War One-related triples from the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives • World War One aggregation

  10. Questions? geoffrey.browell@kcl.ac.uk robert.baxter@cumbria.gov.uk http://openmetadatapathway.blogspot.co.uk/

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