re a machine readable version, it looks like you should start at http://culturegrid.lexaurus.net/culturegrid/api (for a REST interface). Also http://culturegrid.lexaurus.net/culturegrid/home currently shows a link to the SHIC RDF at http://culturegrid.lexaurus.net/culturegrid/linkeddata/SHCG/http://light.demon.co.uk/shic.rdf%23ShicClassification/revision/29/attachment
(which bears the unmistakeable imprint of Light fingers)
Cheers, Jeremy
Jeremy Ottevanger
Technical Web Manager
Imperial War Museum
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London SE1 6HZ
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Sent: 02 May 2012 16:58
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Subject: Re: [MCG] SHIC
Hi Nick
This brings up the main question for those of us running Collections Management Systems; where do we get a machine readable version that we can load?
Do we go to you, the SHCG, or back to our CMS vendor, sorry, Spectrum Partner?
Also, do you have any timeline for revising SHIC?
Michael
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nick Poole
Sent: 01 May 2012 17:52
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Subject: Re: SHIC
Hi Richard,
Thanks for the prompt! Yes, Collections Trust and the Social History Curators Group have been working to develop an electronic version of SHIC that can be used both as a reference tool but also as a machine-readable vocabulary.
In fact (whispers) our partners Knowledge Integration have already integrated the current version of SHIC into the Culture Grid Vocab Bank
- go to http://culturegrid.lexaurus.net/culturegrid/browse and scroll down. You can browse the structure, and also download the vocabulary as an XML document. The longer-term aim of the Vocab Bank is to provide web-service access to a range of SKOSified vocabularies, but the interest in this from museums has been pretty muted - I'd love to know whether there is an appetite for this stuff before we go ahead and invest in developing it!
SHCG's aim is to use this current version to develop an updated version.
The original SHIC Working Party do retain an interest in its development, and we are currently negotiating how best to take the development of SHIC forward.
I hope this helps, and I'd welcome views on the next steps with the Vocab Bank!
Nick
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Light
Sent: 01 May 2012 17:42
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Subject: Re: SHIC
Robin,
Yes, I have a version of SHIC which I have lovingly reconstructed from various sources (with considerable help from Stuart, who I am sure /is /still out there), and which now lives happily in a Modes data file as a set of XML records. That's the good news.
However, I am not sure what the status of this version is, and whether I would be free to let you have a copy. Collections Trust and the SHCG have been expressing an interest in SHIC of late, and of course the original SHIC Working Party might still want to have a say. There is the idea of SKOS-ifying SHIC. Would anyone care to comment?
At a practical level, would a dump of SHIC as an XML document be of use to you?
Richard
On 01/05/2012 17:26, Robin Patel wrote:
> Hello All
>
> Second time poster, long time lurker.
>
> Very quick question: Does anyone have a digital version of SHIC they
> could identify and (potentially) lead us to? We are in the midst of a
> retrospective documentation project and, apart from developing our own
> in-house classification, we feel that SHIC fits the bill for the types
> of collections we are dealing with. I have a hardcopy 2nd ed. here,
> but I would rather have something searchable without resorting to the
> pitfalls of OCR.
>
> I have contacted Stuart via his website, but I fear that email is
> longer active...
>
> Many Thanks :-)
>
> Robin
>
>
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*Richard Light*
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