This is the homepage of The Mass-Observation Archive dataset, made available via the SALDA JISC funded project. For more information see this page on data.lib.sussex.ac.uk or the blog for the SALDA project.
SALDA Linked Mass Observation Archive Dataset
This is a dataset describing the Mass Observation Archive. The data is derived from data exported from a CALM archival management system database.
It is hosted on an instance of the Talis Platform triplestore.
The URIs for resources described in the dataset follow the following pattern:
- http://data\.lib\.sussex\.ac\.uk/archive/id/.+
Example resources are:
- http://data.lib.sussex.ac.uk/archive/id/archivalresource/gb181SxMOA1
- http://data.lib.sussex.ac.uk/archive/id/person/nra/harrissonthomas1911-1976anthropologist
- http://data.lib.sussex.ac.uk/archive/id/place/moa/london
- http://data.lib.sussex.ac.uk/archive/id/concept/moa/children
The data references terms from (amongst others) the following RDF vocabularies:
- http://purl.org/dc/terms/
- http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
- http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#
- http://www.openarchives.org/ore/terms/
- http://linkedevents.org/ontology/
- http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/def/
The SPARQL endpoint for the dataset is: http://api.talis.com/stores/massobservation/services/sparql.
Please note: at this time, the dataset is unstable, and its content is likely to change substantially at any time without warning.
SALDA Project
The SALDA project receives funding from JISC under the Infrastructure for Resource Discovery strand of its Information Environment programme, a strand which seeks to implement some of the vision of the Resource Discovery Task Force
The main aims of the project are to make available data describing the Mass Observation Archive in the form of Linked Data.
The participants in the project are University of Sussex Library, UKOLN, Eduserv, and Talis.
The project runs from February 2011 until July 2011.
For more information on SALDA project activity, see the SALDA project blog.