Out and about in Birmingham and London
RDTF On Tuesday 1 March, myelf and Chris Keene, Technical Development Manager for the Library and SALDA project partner attended the start up meeting for the projects running as part of the JISC...
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The Mass Observation Archive
We thought it would be useful to say a little bit here about what the Mass Observation Archive is to provide some context to the SALDA Project (and archivists love context). The Mass Observation...
View ArticleMusings about URIs
Choosing a base for our URIs. Easy right? The task was recently allocated to me. Should take all of 5 minutes and then I can sit back and sip my coffee at job well done. Simples. Annoyingly, not quite...
View ArticleURIs. A decision
The project team at Sussex (Jane Harvell, Fiona Courage, Chris Keene and myself) met for an hour yesterday to decide about the URI stem for our data. We took 20 minutes. Did we make a hasty decision?...
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The data transformation
by Pete Johnston I’ve been working on a first attempt at processing the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) XML output provided by Karen from their CALM database in order to generate RDF data for the...
View ArticleFollowing in our footsteps
Question: If others wanted to take a similar approach to your project, what advice would you give them. Our advice at the start would be: 1. Get your data ready. We are working on our catalogue data to...
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Converting EAD data to RDF Linked Data
In my last blog post I discussed how to setup our server to handle the URIs being created within our Linked Data, and said the next step was for us to turn our EAD/XML data from Calm in to RDF/XML...
View ArticleLinking to LOCAH
As readers of this blog will know, we followed closely in the footsteps of the LOCAH project and we are now linked to the Archives Hub dataset. Which is nice. See...
View ArticleSALDA Project – Welcome!
Welcome to the SALDA project blog. We are very excited to begin this six month JISC funded project to make the records of the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex available as open...
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