Meeting on Semantic Web and Archives, Libraries and Museums Fundacion Ramon Areces, Madrid, Spain. 10 th April 2014 Adrian Stevenson Senior Technical Innovations Coordinator Mimas, University of Manchester, UK @adrianstevenson “Il n’y a pas de hors-texte” – Challenges for Archival Linked Data
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“Il n’y a pas de hors-texte” - Challenges for Archival Linked Data
Invited speaker talk given at the 'Meeting on Semantic Web and Archives, Libraries and Museums' event, Fundación Ramón Areces, Madrid, Spain. 10th April 2014.
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Meeting on Semantic Web and Archives, Libraries and MuseumsFundacion Ramon Areces, Madrid, Spain. 10th April 2014
Adrian StevensonSenior Technical Innovations Coordinator
Mimas, University of Manchester, UK@adrianstevenson
“Il n’y a pas de hors-texte” – Challenges for Archival Linked Data
“Il n’y a pas de hors-texte”‘Of Grammatology’
Jacques Derrida, 1967
“There is nothing outside the text”
“There is nothing outside context”
http://archiveshub.ac.uk
http://archiveshub.ac.uk/locah/
Deconstruction / Context
• Archives Hub data in ‘Encoded Archival Description’ EAD XML form
• Need to think about:– knowing what we want to say about our ‘things’– data modelling– defining relationships– selecting vocabularies – deciding on identifiers – HTTP URIs– creating RDF XML– linking to external resources
• Linking Lives is a project to create an end-user interface based on Linked Data
• A biographical interface, providing information about individuals that is taken from a variety of sources
• Aim is to place archival descriptions within a much broader context
Martha Beatrice Webb
Place of birth: Gloucester, EnglandPlace of death: Liphook, Hampshire, England
Life dates: 1858-1943Epithet: social reformer and historianFamily name: Webb
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from: Beatrice Webb lettersBeatrice Webb (1858 - 1943). Fabian Socialist, social reformer, writer, historian, diarist. Wife, collaborator and assistant of Sidney Webb, later Lord Passfield. Together they contributed to the radical ideology first of the Liberal Party and later of the Labour Party. from: Beatrice Webb, A summer holiday in Scotland, 1884.Beatrice Webb (1858-1943), nee Potter, social reformer and diarist. Married to Sidney Webb, pioneers of social science. She was involved in many spheres of political and social activity including the Labour Party, Fabianism, social observation, investigations into poverty, development of socialism, the foundation of the National Health Service and post war welfare state, the London School of
Biographical Notes
Works
Our PartnershipMy ApprenticeshipThe case for the factory actsBeatrice Webb’s diaries; edited by Margaret ColeThe Diary
• Telling stories• Placing archives in a global information space• External data forms part of the user interface
– moving away from the silo approach• Dynamic links to other content• Extensible• An exemplar – shows what can be done
Some Challenges / Lessons Learnt
• Steep learning curve• Difficult data, URI persistence• Linking data not straightforward• Keeping data up to date• How sustainable are the data sources?• Can you track the provenance of data sources?• Are data licensing issues covered?