The project is a collaboration between King's College London Archives, King's Centre for e-Research and the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC), utilising data held by partners in AIM25 (Archives in London and the M25) - the archive description aggregation service maintained by King's Archives and ULCC. The Open Metadata Pathway project will deliver a demonstrator of the effectiveness of opening up archival catalogues to widened automated linking and discovery.
Below are example semantically expressed AIM25 access points. Using the cool URI schema as per the LOCAH project, these are now available rendered as HTML, RDF, Turtle or JSON using Paget.
AIM25 Resources as EAC and EAD (to be brought into the above system in due course)
The project included an assessment of the effectiveness of automated semantic data extraction through natural language processing tools (using openCalais) and measure the effectiveness of the approach through statistical analysis and review by key stakeholders (users and archivists).
A prototype AIM25 workflow analyses input both internally and with OpenCalais. Uses results of this analysis to assist archivists in defining authortative access points and embed linked data into their records at the point of creation.