| Abstract: |
The Archives hub is a JISC funded service that brings together descriptions of archives held across the UK. In March 2010 the JISC put out a call for proposals to "expose digital content for education and research," looking for projects that would enable structured data to be made available on the Web, in particular linked data. Funding was secured for a proposal to create linked data for the Archives Hub, and the Linked Open Copac and Archives Hub (LOCAH) project was the result of this. the next logical step in the linked data journey was to create some kind of proof of concept; we felt that we needed a pro-active approach, developing our own front end—something to demonstrate the potential benefits of linked data for end users. We decided on a biographical approach and to create a simple interface where one page would represent one person, which we called Linking Lives. |
