Dear all,
Since Jon mentions collaborative tools for taxonomic/vocabulary work, I
thought you might be interested in the Culture Grid Terminology Bank
(http://culturegrid.lexaurus.net/) service which the Collections Trust
has set up in partnership with the Vocabulary Management Group
(http://www.vocman.com/).
As some of you will know, we have been working for some time to develop
a platform which uses web-services to deliver taxonomies, vocabularies
and termlists to systems such as Collections Management Systems. The
Terminology Bank is based on the VMG's Lexaurus software and provides
SKOS-structured terminologies (we are currently evaluating the platform
using the UK Archival Thesaurus - UKAT) which can be interrogated
machine-to-machine via a RESTful API. It also includes an alerting
function to signal changes to terminologies, which uses both RSS and
Atom formats.
We are currently reviewing the existing terminologies which we hold or
with which we have a relationship, such as SHIC, prior to skosification
and import into the Terminology Bank. We would really love to hear from
anyone who has developed a SKOS-based vocabulary which we could share
with the community via this service.
We will send out further information about the service as it develops
over the next 12 months. In the meantime, I would echo Jon's point about
providing online spaces for people to play with some of these
technologies. We are considering how best we might respond to this, and
again, will share additional info in due course.
With best regards,
Nick
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Subject: Re: Suggestions for a collaboration tool
Rhiannon
This isn't going to be very helpful, but it's about the wider picture
and the emerging needs for eResearch in the arts...
In the sciences and engineering, there's a whole host of eResearch tools
and platforms which network together researchers across different
physical spaces and even timezones. Typically, these toolsets allow
eConferencing, chat, blogging, datasharing/datacrunching across digital
boundaries. It's a lot about collaboration and partnership.
JISC have been at the forefront of making this stuff happen in the UK HE
sector for the last few years. More about the work here:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/einfrastructure.aspx
Here's a nice science sector digital workbench tool -
http://wiki.myexperiment.org/index.php/Main_Page
As yet, eResearch tools and digital workbenches of the sort used by our
scientific colleagues haven't yet taken off in the arts and humanities;
MCG people have been pretty busy using PB-wiki and similar tools for a
while, but the facilities offered by platforms like MyExperiment are way
beyond this.
What we need now are some Open Source tools/platforms like this to play
with in our sector. Taxonomy work; text mining; spidering; dataset
comparisons; vocabulary work; semantic stuff; data visualisation etc?
Could there be clues in other HE sectors as to how we might do this
better, in different ways?
JP
Jon Pratty
Relationship Manager, Digital and Creative Economies
Arts Council England
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Sent: 13 July 2010 10:15
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Subject: Suggestions for a collaboration tool
Hi all
I'm looking to set up a means by which a group of researchers who meet
monthly at the Museum of London Docklands can share their research and
keep in touch with each other outside of their monthly meetings.
We had originally thought in terms of a VLE but I think really it's more
of a collaboration/communication tool.
It would need to be easy to use for non-techies and free/cheap to set up
and run. I'm trying to find a balance between not providing them with
tools that they simply don't need, but also knowing that they might not
know what they would find useful until they see it!
Any suggestions for systems I should be looking into would be greatly
appreciated!
Thanks
Rhiannon
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