2.
JISC-funded service based at
Mimas, The University of Manchester
In service since 2000
Over 27,000 collection descriptions
Over 230 repositories
Management and service team at
Manchester
Development team at Liverpool
Software: Cheshire for Archives
3.
Strategic aim: build and enhance content
Meeting the needs of the UK research
community
Meeting the needs of the wider community
Archives for education and research
Key aim to be comprehensive!
The success of the Hub is a reflection of the
rich content available from Hub
contributors
6.
Very flexible: collection-level through to
item-level
Software/searches effective with both
Complimentary approaches –
contributors can include summary and
detailed descriptions
Researchers ask for detail but also ask for
us to be comprehensive!
8.
Archives Portal Europe (route to Europeana)
Genesis: exploratory project to share data
AIM25: collaboration to improve interoperability
TNA: links from the NRA and discussions about mutually
beneficial activities
UKAD: UK Archives Discovery Network
Archives Wales Project
Working with software providers, eg CALM/Adlib/KE/ICA
AtoM
9.
Local search/retrieve setup
Very similar to the Hub interface
A lightweight approach using the Hub API
Template solution – minimal customisation of
design
Hosted at Mimas – easy to maintain
Hoping to go live early in 2014
Complex programming challenge!
10.
The browser provides a human user interface
Machine interfaces provide ways for machines to interact
with the data
Enables more exposure and flexible access
The Hub has:
◦ SRU
◦ Z39.50
◦ OAI-PMH
11.
EAD is XML for archives
We have EAD2002 (DTD)
Cheshire search engine searches and retrieves EAD
descriptions
EAD is ISAD(G) compliant
We use indexing standards and strongly encourage
contributors to add index terms
16.
All Hub descriptions have
their own identifiers – a
unique reference
Gives them their own web
address
Enables bookmarking of
content
Facilitates linking, e.g. from
NRA
Enables exposure to Google
archiveshub.ac.uk/identifiers
18.
Hub takes your EAD
descriptions and displays
them using a stylesheet
We can modify the
stylesheet to display
different fields
EAD currently being revised
(new version due 2015) so
there may be some changes
- but minimal disruption!