This is the homepage of the LOCAH Linked Archives Hub test dataset.

LOCAH Project

The LOCAH project receives funding from JISC under the jiscEXPO strand of its Information Environment programme.

The main aims of the project are to make available data from the Archives Hub and from Copac in the form of Linked Data.

The participants in the project are Mimas, UKOLN, Eduserv, Talis, and OCLC Research.

The project runs from August 2010 until July 2011.

For more information on LOCAH project activity, see the LOCAH project blog.

LOCAH Linked Archives Hub Test Dataset

This is a small test dataset describing archives held by UK higher education institutions. The data is derived from a sample of the archival finding aids held by the UK Archives Hub.

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\.archiveshub\.ac\.uk/id/.+

Example resources are:

The data references terms from (amongst others) the following RDF vocabularies:

The SPARQL endpoint for the dataset is: http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/sparql.

An RDF dump of the dataset is available: http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/dump/linkedarchiveshub.zip.

The Archives Hub EAD to RDF XSLT stylesheet is available: http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/ead2rdf/.

Please note: at this time, the dataset should be considered unstable, and its content may change substantially at any time without warning.

The LOCAH Linked Archives Hub data and content is licensed under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 licence.

Archives repository postcode data kindly supplied by The National Archives Archon Directory