GitHub repo | This is a fork of Démonstrateur Sparnatural des Archives nationales de France | Original GitHub repo | SPARQL endpoint to use: http://51.159.140.210/graphdb/repositories/sparnatural-demo-anf | Our fork of draw.io
The Archives of Ontario, the GLAM Incubator and Profs. Anastasia Kuzminykh and Shion Guha at the University of Toronto will collaborate to create a proof of concept that explores the possibilities and potential benefits of a graph-based data model for archival description, using the International Council on Archives’ new Records in Contexts (RiC) standard and Linked Open Data (RDF data format). The traditional archival finding aid, with its static and inflexible hierarchies, fails to represent the complexity and nuanced reality of record creation, accumulation, use and re-use over time.Recent efforts to overcome this limitation have turned to entity-relationship based models developed by the graph theory of knowledge representation, with its infinitely flexible and extensible subject-predicate-object expressions of data (semantic triples). The overall objective of this project is to develop a data model, to select and model a small-scale sample of data drawn from the Archives of Ontario’s datasets, and to thereby test the possibilities and potential benefits for internal staff and public end-users. This work represents a paradigm shift for archival description: it promises a vastly improved ability to represent the reality of record creation, to manage the complexity of digital metadata, to allow machine-readable encoding of meaning that enables complex logical inferences and search capabilities, and to connect currently siloed datasets with related data across the world. In short, this proposed project will break new ground in the Canadian archival sector.
Live demo | JavaScript library for executing SPARQL query and transforming resulted JSON for visualization in D3.js. | GitHub repo
Ce démonstrateur, construit avec l’outil Sparnatural vous permet d’interroger un graphe de connaissances produit à partir d’une partie des métadonnées décrivant les archives des notaires de Paris conservées aux Archives nationales. Ces métadonnées ont été sémantisées conformément à l’ontologie Records In Contexts (RiC-O). Le démonstrateur est composé de deux interfaces de recherche. Le démonstrateur A propose une interface simple et généraliste d’exploration de ces métadonnées, qui pourrait être utilisée pour d’autres métadonnées archivistiques. Le démonstrateur B propose une interface d’exploration de ces métadonnées qui s’appuie sur les spécificités des archives notariales. Notez que les IRIs des ressources RDF ne sont actuellement pas déréférençables.
Date de la dernière mise à jour : 9 septembre 2022.
Through this prototype, built with Sparnatural, you can query a knowledge graph created from a part of the metadata describing the archives of Paris notaries kept at the French national Archives. These metadata have been semantized according to the ontology Records In Contexts (RiC-O). The prototype is composed of two research interfaces. Interface A offers a simple and general exploration interface in this metadata, which could be used for other archival metadata. Interface B offers an exploration interface in these metadata based on the specificities of notarial archives. Note that the IRIs of RDF resources are currently not dereferenceable.
Last updated on 2022, September 9th.