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

AIM25: archive collection descriptions for London

Cumbria Archive Service: Local authority service

University of London Computer Centre (ULCC)

Axiell Historypin

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

Make more efficient the 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

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

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?

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

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)

Trenches to Triples: World War One-related triples from the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

World War One aggregation

geoffrey.browell@kcl.ac.ukrobert.baxter@cumbria.gov.uk

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