interoperability and data sharing: how to get your archival data our of your system, and what to do...
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Presentation give at the 2013 UK Archives Discovery Network (UKAD) forum http://www.ukad.org/forum2013/TRANSCRIPT
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Interoperability & data sharing
how to get your archival data out of your system, and what to do with it when you have.
Bethan Ruddock, UKAD Forum 2013
14:30, Room B
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The problemYou have valuable data that you want to share…
… but it’s locked inside a content management system
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Push discovery, help researchers find
more stuff, promote use of your collections, enable cool things like data mining and visualisations, link to other data sets, make the most of your time and effort, store data in
sustainable formats, allow others to enhance your data, embed in other sites and catalogues
Why share your data?
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The solution
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Check what formats you can export data in:
EADOther forms of XMLCSVSQL text formatHTMLPlain text
But how?
?
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If you can’t export?
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Well, what do you want to do with it?
Is your data in an appropriate format?Archive catalogues – EAD
Library catalogues – MODS XMLLinked data – RDF/Dublin Core XML
Is it consistent? Transform itXSLT
AtoM CSV Import
I’ve got my data… now what?
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Well, what do you want to do with it?
Think about your audienceIs your data content appropriate?
Will it enable your audience to answer their questions?
Are you allowing them to use it? How is it licensed?
I’ve got my data… now what?
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Are you having problems getting your data out of your system? Wondering how to transform it? Want to know how others are dealing with licensing issues? Not sure what use cases there are for your data?
Questions & discussion
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