University of Oxford

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BRII Meeting

Vocabularies (some in ns.ox.ac.uk)

Quality of data (for future bluepages):

  • flag problems with data (wrong spelling of name, etc)
  • one-button-form
  • compounded info (2 places) that can be tracked back
  • record of the source 9dept, person responsible, website, etc)

Some people offered data but it has to be analysed… if it is not good or not well formatted the data might not be taken into consideration and should be reported why.

Website ‘output’ RDF (medical sciences)

Widget to pull-out info from ORA (bibliography, for example) – Atom feeds.

Katie Portwin – specialist in RDF.

Mentioned:

  • Remembering what Themes are (“cancer”, “heart”, etc).
  • Spin-off ontologies
  • ICT project (check) – “people data”
  • Dlib journal id.lc.gov (digital links/linked data) – library of congress subject headings.

futureArch

For many years the University of Oxford has been storing and archiving many items trying to preserve these materials. However, many of them cannot really be ‘indefinetely preserved’ unless a new form of preservation is applied. The project futureArch came along to help the long-term preservation of digital materials (and others). Read more about it. Check the project’s blog or the main description on the Bodleian page.

 

Idea is to preserve as a permanent feature (not for 5-10-50 years, but ‘forever’).

 

Bodleian has special collections and there are many self-archive collections of politicians, historians, etc. that are born-digital.

 

When and how preserve, check the authenticity of a document.

 

Project to preserve not only the document itself but the applications that allow the document to be opened/viewed. Versions of software, emulators/simulators can be used but also need to be preserved for the future access of that individual document.

 

Project to also cathegorise the many documents types and if there is a document it can be retrieved from the repository.

 

An example of classification can be viewed on the Sir Isaiah Berlin collection.

OLIS

OLIS is Oxford University’s online union library catalogue. It contains records for over five million of the estimated ten million titles held by libraries associated with Oxford University. It can be searched via web, telnet and Z39.50 interfaces at the address library.ox.ac.uk.

It started with Marc and Dublin Core standards and now is into SOLO.

Blackwells is the main supplier for the University of Oxford.