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Uniting Libraries And Archives: How An Integrated Metadata Strategy Can Produce a Common Research Environment Richard Gartner, King's College London An explosion in digital library collections... http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/6/286.shor t Digitization of unique library collections will increase and require a larger share of resources..libraries often must reallocate fiscal resources to support these projects The definition of the library will change as physical space is repurposed and virtual space expands “many historical documents are available digitally...[but] are also separated from their historical and documentary context.” Mark Vajcner Respect des fonds to group, without mixing them with others, the archives (documents of every kind) created by or coming from an administration, establishment, person, or corporate body. (Michel Duchein) Natalis de Wailly (1841) 'archival description, that is ‘the process of capturing, collating, analysing, and organizing any information that serves to identify, manage, locate, and interpret the holdings of archival institutions and explain the contexts and records systems from which those holdings were selected’ Working Group on Standards for Archival Description (WGSAD) (1989) For the researcher, archives and libraries are equally important resources. To establish a coherent research environment which does not allow important material to become invisible it is important to devise a metadata strategy which unites both approaches. CENDARI: what we aim to do ‘Enquiry environment’ disparate collections linked and interrogated in new ways → shared virtual research infrastructures. Techniques data mining Visualizations online annotation ->all in multilingual environments. The metadata architecture Medieval domain stresses the item The metadata architecture WWI domain stresses the collection EAG EAD METS MARC Is Creator Of William Shakespeare Hamlet http://www.w3.org/People/EM83889 http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator http://www.loc.gov/catalog_entries/839840982098 An RDF (Resource Description Framework) “triple” Components can be re-used flexibly Complex semantic relationships between objects and components are easily established Linking can take place at any level of granularity Complexity of data often requires substantial developer time Data modelling is very time-consuming Data cleansing and maintenance is often difficult Reusing and exchanging data has proved harder than expected Archival robustness of RDF data? "We have yet to see any real examples of benefit [from linked data for library metadata] emerging from JISC projects in this area, or elsewhere" EAG EAD METS MARC Components can be re-used flexibly Complex semantic relationships between objects and components are easily established Linking can take place at any level of granularity Complexity of data often requires substantial developer time Data modelling is very time-consuming Data cleansing and maintenance is often difficult Reusing and exchanging data has proved harder than expected Archival robustness of RDF data? CENDARI: what we aim to do ‘Enquiry environment’ disparate collections linked and interrogated in new ways → shared virtual research infrastructures. Techniques data mining Visualizations online annotation ->all in multilingual environments. Thank you! Any questions? [email protected]