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Linking Geodata for Research

Learn about using linked geodata for research in the 29th March 2012 BCS-ISKO meeting by Jo Walsh from EDINA, a JISC supported datacentre. Discover the benefits of linked data, spatial engagement, and the impact on digital humanities projects.

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Linking Geodata for Research

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  1. Linking Geodata for Research 29th March 2012 BCS – ISKO meeting Jo Walsh – EDINA jo.walsh@ed.ac.uk

  2. EDINA National Datacentre hosted at the University of Edinburgh And supported by JISC “EDINA seeks to enhance the productivity, quality and cost-effectiveness of research and education in the UK and beyond” JISC's vision is one of easy and widespread access to information and resources, anytime, anywhere; a vision with technology and information management at the heart of research and education.

  3. Digimap

  4. Digimap - Ancient Roam

  5. Ancient Roam

  6. Ancient Roam - 1970s

  7. Digimap

  8. JISC's “Discovery” Programme We want to find things Geographic search of archives is important!

  9. Outcomes of GOLD • CSW harvesting • automated Linked Data publication • well known and frequently used vocabularies e.g. FOAF, Dcat. • Need for core, common vocabularies • competing approaches to representing geometry Is Linked Data the panacea to resource discovery and reuse its proponents claim?

  10. 5 Stars of Linked Open Data ★ Available on the web (whatever format) but with an open licence, to be Open Data ★★ Available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. excel instead of image scan of a table) ★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of excel) ★★★★ All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF and SPARQL) to identify things, so thatpeople can point at your stuff ★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

  11. Mudlondon

  12. z

  13. Chalice OCRing of EPNS text by CDDA at QUB Text mining by LTG at Edinburgh Linked data, maps, search by EDINA Use cases and next steps by CeRch, KCL

  14. English Place-Name Survey

  15. Text-mining EPNS for structured data

  16. DEEP Digitisation and Exposure of English Placenames Infrastructure for georeferencing next generation of digital humanities projects with spatial engagement “Everything happens somewhere”

  17. DEEP

  18. Data.ac.uk * Linking institutional data * Estates and Buildings collaboration * Internal cost savings and transparency of management * Achieved by opening data to the outside, for internal access * Simple systems such as Google Spreadsheets and Excel plugins

  19. Old Maps Online

  20. OpenStreetmap

  21. GIS tools, techniques applied to archives Spatial exploration Spatial analysis Digital Humanities “the spatial turn”

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