XML Databases and Document Stores, Michael Joyce, SFU
- EXIST for storing XML
- indexing and searhcing provided by Lucene
- doesn’t include analysis, but can used Stanford named entity recognizer
- MASHUP of over 200 books mapped using statistical tagger and dbpedia, great for getting people started
- similarity matching to find similar content
Demo of MIK (the Move to Islandora Kit), Mark Jordan, SFU
- built at SFU in migrate digital collections to Islandora
- built in modular way, and flexible
- doesn’t move to Islandora, just prepares content
- can have contentdm or csv/excel, prepares batch packages that Islandroa expects
- can run as many times as you want to get it right before loading to Islandora
- despite the name, will let you use it in other contexts e.g. move to Hydra
- parse into MODS or DC, which is what Islandora exists, but could be written to do others
- post-write hook scripts, allows scripts to be run in the background
- modules can be used e.g. metadata manipulator
- need to write config file, but not more complex than most
- metadata mapping file can also add metadata that wasn’t in incoming data
- backend tool written in PHP
- hope to get people get interested to contribute different toolchanges e.g. Dspace
Making moves: Migrating from CONTENTdm to Islandora, Hillary Webb, ECUAD
- BC ELN started Arca, IR for all post-secondary schools
- migrated from ContentDM to Islandora
- created custom displays to display custom metadata
- had to manually regenerate derivatives, but would want to script it in the future
- most issues left over has to do with display e.g. list vs. grid per collection
Open Collections Future – Linked Data APIs, Stefan Khan-Kernahan, UBC
- very little data is linked at this point
- want to propose that authors have persistent digital identifier through ORCID to build profiles, use ORCID to markup and import citations
- can add schema and do something similar to call number
- show related articles currently based on search but if use ID, can build richer ways to show related articles e.g. same person, others that they’ve collaborated with
- can build citation and reference lists
PDL Report, Caroline Daniels, KPU
- Provincial Digital Library, but didn’t really consult anybody.
- put some money to BC ELN to build Arca
- next step is to build discovery layer on top of Arca and other digital collections
- had a meeting, will get report in ~2 weeks
- larger symposium next to BCLA; and will likely be other smaller groups
- the ministries have said there is no money to do this
- come up with some solutions and they might be able to find money
- a task group is forming to see what we might do
- digital collections environmental scan done by Mike Conroy
- the focus is to benefit the whole province
Break
Time for a snack!
