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Posted on October 17, 2011 by Fiona Sullivan
Over at our brother blog Opening the Catalogue: State Records NSW’s Open Data Project our colleague Richard Lehane is asking for your help. State Records NSW is now inviting our regular users to trial http://api.records.nsw.gov.au as a new search tool for accessing the State Archives collection. If you have tried this new search tool, and [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on October 17, 2011 by Fiona Sullivan
LODLAM stands for Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums. This is a very exciting, innovative area. If you do a Google search on “LODLAM” you bring up a lot of hits, however, sitting right at the top of the list is lod-lam.net. I’ve embedded an Introductory talk on LODLAM by Jon Voss from [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2011 by Anthea Brown
Let’s be clear: no-one is messing with the ‘purity’ of the data; it all remains intact. Information stored in databases isn’t compromised – these clever techno-savvy types are simply thinking more laterally than most of us and demonstrating the less travelled, but nevertheless important, paths the data can take.
Continue ReadingPosted on April 18, 2011 by Richard Lehane
State Records NSW recently established an Open Data Project with the aim of identifying datasets relating to the NSW State Archives collection and publishing them in accessible ways.
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Posted on November 23, 2010 by Fiona Sullivan
A week and a half ago I attended the CAARA / NAA residential “Archives 2.0 – interacting with the future”.
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