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UKOLN is supported by:
LOCAH Project Show and Tell
2nd August 2011
e-Research South Linked Data Workshop,
Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford, UK
Adrian Stevenson
LOCAH Project Manager
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LOCAH Project• Linked Open Copac and Archives Hub• Funded by #JiscEXPO 2/10 ‘Expose’ call
– 1 year project. Started August 2010
• Partners & Consultants:– UKOLN – Adrian Stevenson, Julian Cheal– Mimas – Jane Stevenson, Bethan Ruddock, Yogesh
Patel– Eduserv – Pete Johnston– Talis – Leigh Dodds, Tim Hodson– OCLC - Ralph LeVan, Thom Hickey– Ed Summers
• http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/
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Archives Hub and Copac• UK National Data Services based at Mimas• Archives Hub is an aggregation of archival
descriptions from archive repositories across the UK– http://archiveshub.ac.uk
• Copac provides access to the merged library catalogues of libraries throughout the UK, including all national libraries– http://copac.ac.uk
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What is LOCAH Doing?
• Part 1: Exposing Archives Hub & Copac data as Linked Data
• Part 2: Creating a prototype visualisation
• Part 3: Reporting on opportunities and barriers
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We’re Linking Data!
• If something is identified, it can be linked to• We take items from one dataset and link
them to items from other datasets
BBCBBCVIAFVIAF
DBPediaDBPediaArchives
HubArchives
Hub
CopacCopac
GeoNamesGeoNames
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Enhancing our data• Already have some links:
– Time - reference.data.gov.uk URIs– Location - UK Postcodes URIs and Ordnance
Survey URIs – Names - Virtual International Authority File
• Matches and links widely-used authority files - http://viaf.org/
– Names - DBPedia
• Also looking at:– Subjects - Library Congress Subject Headings and
DBPedia
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http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/
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http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/id/person/nra/webbmarthabeatrice1858-1943socialreformer
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Visualisation Prototype• Using Timemap –
– Googlemaps and Simile
– http://code.google.com/p/timemap/
• Early stages with this• Will give location and
‘extent’ of archive.• Will link through to
Archives Hub
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Linking Lives Project
• Starts September 2011• Builds on Locah work
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BBC Music
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The Key Benefit of Linked Data (?)
• Mashups work against a fixed set of data sources
• Hand crafted by humans
• Don’t integrate well
• Linked Data promises an unbound global data space
• Easy dataset integration
• Generic ‘mesh-up’ tools
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Some challenges
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Matching Subjects
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Matching Places
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Matching Places
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Sustainability
• Can you rely on data sources long-term?
• Ed Summers at the Library of Congress createdhttp://lcsh.info
• Linked Data interface for LOC subject headings
• People started using it
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Scalability / Provenance
Example by Bradley Allen, Elsevier at LOD LAM Summit, SF, USA
• Same issue with attribution• Solutions: Named graphs? Quads? • Best Practice
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Data Modelling• Complexity
– Archival description is hierarchical and multi-level
• Dirty Data
Licensing• ‘Ownership’ of data• Hard to track attribution• CC0 for Archives Hub and Copac data
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Is Linked Data the Way?
• Enables ‘straightforward’ integration of wide variety of data sources
• Research data can ‘work harder’• New channels into your data• Researchers are more likely to discover
sources • ‘Hidden' research collections of become of
the Web
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– What constitutes data worth linking to?– How do you find datasets suitable for
interlinking? – How do I make my dataset worth linking to?– How do I encourage others to link to my data?– What is the added value of links? – How do you determine the quality of a link?
Questions if you’ve bought in
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Attribution and CC License
• Sections of this presentation adapted from materials created by other members of the LOCAH Project
• This presentation available under creative commons Non Commercial-Share Alike:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/