Presentation to Society of American Archivists' Conference 2011: The Archives Hub innovation and development work and the EAD Editor.

1. Data In :: Data Out The Archives Hub as part of a national resource discovery vision SAA 2011, Chicago

3. Always think about flexible approaches in order to open up and maximise the potential of your data 2) Think visual, but combine this with a solid backbone that provides good content and context 3) 'Data out' relies upon the quality of 'data in'. Look for effective ways to maintain the quality of the data coming in. Key Points

4. Exposure

5. Identity

6. Visual, flexible & contextualised

7. ontology is overrated? Visual immediacy & flexible data

8. Innovation: link from description, etc. Visual immediacy

9. Data by region

10. Rich Content

12. Specialist access

13. Query: “artists” Styled Results set Query: “artists” + ‘women’ Genesis styles & presents User only aware of “artists” search XML results set Archives Hub API: SRU All descriptions with ‘women’ as an index term + “artists” as a keywords

15. in Finding Aid Repository(Agent) Place PostcodeUnit administeredBy/administers maintainedBy/maintains encodedAs/encodes hasPart/partOf EAD Document accessProvidedBy/providesAccessTo Level Biographical History topic/page hasBiogHist/isBiogHistFor Language level ArchivalResource language at time topic/page origination hasPart/partOf Creation TemporalEntity product of associatedWith extent inScheme Extent Agent Concept ConceptScheme representedBy Object associatedWith foaf:focus Is-a Is-a Family Person Place Org Book participates in Subject Genre Function Birth Death TemporalEntity at time

16. in Finding Aid Repository(Agent) Place PostcodeUnit administeredBy/administers maintainedBy/maintains encodedAs/encodes hasPart/partOf EAD Document accessProvidedBy/providesAccessTo Level Biographical History topic/page hasBiogHist/isBiogHistFor Language level ArchivalResource language at time topic/page origination hasPart/partOf Creation TemporalEntity product of associatedWith extent inScheme Extent Agent Concept ConceptScheme representedBy Object associatedWith foaf:focus Is-a Is-a Family Person Place Org Book participates in Subject Genre Function Birth Death TemporalEntity at time

17. The Linking benefits of Linked Data BBC:Cranford Copac:Cranford VIAF:Gaskell DBPedia: Gaskell Hub:Gaskell Geonames:Manchester Hub:Dickens DBPedia: Dickens Connected

18. Experimental

20. Name-based interface

21. Connections with other data sources

22. Archives become inter-connected

23. Issues of authority, trust, provenance, open data licencesInter-connected

24. All these innovations rely on the data that comes in

25. Data In: Control

27. Data In: Education

28. Data In: Education

29. Data In: Import

30. Data In: Friendly faces!

32. Indexing tutorial

33. Case studies

34. Other resources

36. Archives Hub http://archiveshub.ac.uk Archives Hub Blog http://archiveshub.ac.uk/blog Archives Hub Twitter http://www.twitter.com/archiveshub