Geoff Browell, Senior Archives Services Manager, King’s College London
Robert Baxter, Senior Archivist, Cumbria Archive Service
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AIM25: archive collection descriptions for
London
Cumbria Archive Service: Local authority
service
University of London Computer Centre (ULCC)
Axiell
Historypin
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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
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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
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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
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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 & recataloguing – how is this funded?
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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
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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)
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Trenches to Triples: World War One-related
triples from the Liddell Hart Centre for
Military Archives
World War One aggregation
geoffrey.browell@kcl.ac.uk
robert.baxter@cumbria.gov.uk
http://openmetadatapathway.blogspot.co.uk/