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William Stockting
William Stockting

The British Library implemented a 6 step program to integrate and provide discovery of its archive and manuscript collections online using information standards. The steps included: 1) procuring a catalog system based on archival description standards, 2) migrating legacy records to the new system and standardizing data, 3) developing persistent identifiers, 4) clarifying rights and licensing, 5) sharing metadata openly and in multiple standards-based formats, and 6) getting involved in standards development to promote archives standards. This process enabled providing greater online access and discovery of the Library's collections through its new integrated catalog and resource system.

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The Power of Standards: their role in the integration and discovery of the British Librarys archive and manuscript collections OpenCulture 2014: Bill Stockting, British Library
www.bl.uk Introduction Briefly describe collections The situation in 2007 The 6 Step Programme detailing information standards used Conclude by noting how standards used are enabling us to provide greater online access to the collections
www.bl.uk Archive and Manuscript Collections Papyri to the papers of living authors: Manuscripts: Asian, Literary, Music and Western including archives of creatives Records of East India Company and its successors, and related private papers Digital collections, e.g. Endangered Archive Programme Now also Visual Arts collections
www.bl.uk 2007: The problem Mission: To deliver a powerful, flexible integrated cataloguing and resource discovery system that will unite and broaden access to the British Librarys archives and manuscript collection and will provide standards compliant data for external co-operative projects 100s of separate catalogues Big and small Managed by many people across the Library Some online, some only available in reading rooms, some only for curatorial access Many different formats: databases, excel, WORD and HTML Various description standards and none
www.bl.uk Step 1: Procure a Standards Based Catalogue System An in-house development Integrated Archives and Manuscripts System or IAMS: Data model based on the ICA Standards for Archival Description especially: ISAD(G) archival aggregations ISAAR(CPF) creating and subject entities In-house content standards based on national and international practice but also external vocabulary standards to ensure data is interoperable, eg: Languages: ISO 639-2 etc Scripts: ISO 15924
www.bl.uk Step 2. Migrate Legacy Data Since 2009, over 2 million legacy records migrated to the system In principle did as little manual work as possible Took opportunity though to programmatically amend data: To provide structure demanded by our descriptive standards To normalise key elements: languages, scripts, dates etc
www.bl.uk Step 3. Develop Persistent Identification Mass digitisation now happening, egs: Gulf History Portal Europeana WW1 IAMS integrated into the Librarys digital infrastructure Complex but key glue for this is Persistent Identification for catalogue records as well as content using ARK standard
www.bl.uk Step 4. Clarify Rights and Licensing Rights and licensing part of content publication process but also that for metadata Ascertained that we have the rights to the metadata Library makes BNB available as Linked Open Data as CC0 so IAMS data declared as such too
www.bl.uk Step 5. Share Metadata Promiscuously Finally we are in a position to share our metadata with anyone that wants it Standards here for allowing access: Web services RESTful API OAI-PMH Repository XML data in many formats: EAD, EAC-CPF TEI, VRA Core MARCXML, Dublin Core MODS wrapped in METS RDF...
www.bl.uk Step 6. Get Involved in Standards Development Library now involved in standards development, promotion and use for archives: UK: Descriptive Standards Roundtable UK Archives Discovery Network International: Society of American Archivists - EAD ICAs EGAD Conceptual Model for Archives
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Open culture2014 power_eadv2

  • 1. The Power of Standards: their role in the integration and discovery of the British Librarys archive and manuscript collections OpenCulture 2014: Bill Stockting, British Library
  • 2. www.bl.uk Introduction Briefly describe collections The situation in 2007 The 6 Step Programme detailing information standards used Conclude by noting how standards used are enabling us to provide greater online access to the collections
  • 3. www.bl.uk Archive and Manuscript Collections Papyri to the papers of living authors: Manuscripts: Asian, Literary, Music and Western including archives of creatives Records of East India Company and its successors, and related private papers Digital collections, e.g. Endangered Archive Programme Now also Visual Arts collections
  • 4. www.bl.uk 2007: The problem Mission: To deliver a powerful, flexible integrated cataloguing and resource discovery system that will unite and broaden access to the British Librarys archives and manuscript collection and will provide standards compliant data for external co-operative projects 100s of separate catalogues Big and small Managed by many people across the Library Some online, some only available in reading rooms, some only for curatorial access Many different formats: databases, excel, WORD and HTML Various description standards and none
  • 5. www.bl.uk Step 1: Procure a Standards Based Catalogue System An in-house development Integrated Archives and Manuscripts System or IAMS: Data model based on the ICA Standards for Archival Description especially: ISAD(G) archival aggregations ISAAR(CPF) creating and subject entities In-house content standards based on national and international practice but also external vocabulary standards to ensure data is interoperable, eg: Languages: ISO 639-2 etc Scripts: ISO 15924
  • 6. www.bl.uk Step 2. Migrate Legacy Data Since 2009, over 2 million legacy records migrated to the system In principle did as little manual work as possible Took opportunity though to programmatically amend data: To provide structure demanded by our descriptive standards To normalise key elements: languages, scripts, dates etc
  • 7. www.bl.uk Step 3. Develop Persistent Identification Mass digitisation now happening, egs: Gulf History Portal Europeana WW1 IAMS integrated into the Librarys digital infrastructure Complex but key glue for this is Persistent Identification for catalogue records as well as content using ARK standard
  • 8. www.bl.uk Step 4. Clarify Rights and Licensing Rights and licensing part of content publication process but also that for metadata Ascertained that we have the rights to the metadata Library makes BNB available as Linked Open Data as CC0 so IAMS data declared as such too
  • 9. www.bl.uk Step 5. Share Metadata Promiscuously Finally we are in a position to share our metadata with anyone that wants it Standards here for allowing access: Web services RESTful API OAI-PMH Repository XML data in many formats: EAD, EAC-CPF TEI, VRA Core MARCXML, Dublin Core MODS wrapped in METS RDF...
  • 10. www.bl.uk Step 6. Get Involved in Standards Development Library now involved in standards development, promotion and use for archives: UK: Descriptive Standards Roundtable UK Archives Discovery Network International: Society of American Archivists - EAD ICAs EGAD Conceptual Model for Archives