[VoCamp Discuss] Welcome, and Introductions

[Tom Heath]

Thanks for the intro Ben.

Looks like I'll see you at the pub tomorrow night then :)

Just a reminder that the pub information is at [1]. Also, anyone who
is staying in Oxford on Thursday night is welcome to attend the Oxford
SWIG meeting. I'll circulate details of that in due course.

Cheers,

Tom.

[1] http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampOxford2008#When



2008/9/22 Benjamin O'Steen <bosteen at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm Ben O'Steen, and work for Oxford Uni Library Services (OULS) dealing
> with digital archiving, modelling of research output and the
> preservation and presentation of said research. One of the main services
> is the Research Archive (~ Institutional repository) at
> http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk but I am dealing with most of the live archival
> of digital material, such as archiving the Google Books digitisation
> images, research datasets, etc.
>
> Things that are on my mind that are relevant to VoCamp:
>
> 1) Very interested to see "Evidence" semantics appear in Ian Davis's
> introduction [ -> "... looking for collaborators for an evidence-based
> model of genealogical research (or general historical research)"] - I am
> very, very interested to push this forward and I have a good use case
> for it, which I'll outline at the end.
>
> 2) Vocabularies and policies to enable the translation of strings to
> things, with regards to the metadata associated with research output
> (e.g. "John Smith" -> (fict.)http://people.ox.ac.uk/jsmith2008
> "Department of History" -> (fict.)http://departments.ox.ac.uk/history,
> or dc:subject "Science" -> dc:subject
> http://lcsh.info/sh85118553#concept
>
>  -> So, persistance and retention of subject vocabularies, privacy (e.g.
> medical services/animal testing faculties), and how best to translate
> (institutional) organisational structures into things on the web are of
> concern to me.
>
> 3) Data -> How best to represent or register the availability of 2d/3d+
> tabular datasets, when the data size is in the Gb->Tb->Pb areas - i.e.
> develop/find/steal a vocab for describing bulk datasets, like the NASA
> FITS format or even CSV data.
>
> 4) More of a very current itch to scratch for me, but modelling a
> phonetics (audio) database and presenting this dataset in a useful and
> semantically sensible way.
>
> 5) Representing books/paginated content - e.g. is there a better way
> than RDF:Seq? How best to capture the page ranges for title pages,
> contents, indexes, plates, tables, appendices, etc. Again, looking to
> use things, rather than strings here - a label of "Title Page" isn't
> good enough.
>
> 6) Time vocabularies - (some overlap with #1 above) vocab/scheme/plan to
> note the time span for which a given triple or set of triples are valid
> for.
>
> 7) Tagging vocabularies - delicious/digg/reddit representation
>
> See you all at camp (it feels american to write something like that!)
> and I'll likely be installed at the Far from Madding Crowd pub from when
> I get out of work on Tuesday night too :)
>
>
> Ben
>
>
> Evidence-based historical assertions: use-case
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> One project I am working on, is turning a historical record of medieval
> library catalogues into an electronic set of resources.
> (http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/sharpe/index.htm#catalogues)
>
> >From initial discussions, it was very quickly apparent that this
> information is best presented as a graph - a library/private home/etc
> contains 'books', each of which contain 1 or more 'works', and a work in
> a given book may have annotations/marginalia.
>
> Unlike today, the recorded books and the compilations of works they held
> were much more bespoke. And instead of having clean, clear catalogues of
> which works were present where and when, each asserted record - [library
> 'A' held book 'B', containing works 'C' to 'F' during time X] - is known
> due to a piece of evidence. The evidence is pretty eclectic, ranging
> from the most definite and most rare (written record of sale or a lib
> catalogue record) to the more interesting, such as book 'B' was found to
> have the same form of binding that library 'A' used in the Xth century,
> or even more loose, book 'B' must have been in library 'A', because the
> handwritten shelfmark on the front page is in the handwriting of the
> librarian who sometimes worked at library 'A' during time X.
>
> This means that a numerical scale for strength of evidence is not
> useful, but the ability/vocab/scheme to be able to say something like
> "this triple/graph of triples is valid in the context of this evidence
> [graph]"
>
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