Love the analogy, though I think the consequences are a little less serious.
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Richard Light
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> On 27/01/2014 14:57, Kevin Bacon wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd be interested to know what subject indexes or other classification
>> systems museums are using for First World War material. While SHIC is of
>> some use, it is quite broad. Does anything exist that is focused on WW1?
>
> A reminder that there is a Linked Data version of SHIC available, e.g.:
>
> http://data.modes.org.uk/Termlist/SHIC_termlist/id/1.846
> or to search it:
> http://data.modes.org.uk/Termlist/SHIC_termlist/search/?q=war
>
> which could help to make shared/pooled SHIC-based data more interoperable.
>
>
>> I have found a few subject indexes, such as that used by Europeana 1914-18
>> http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en, but I have not found anything that
>> looks like a shared standard. This may be a result of my ignorance, but
>> since I'm keen to improve the collections data and assets we're releasing
>> about this period, I'd like to know if there any existing subject indexes
>> that we could use.
>
> The "long, long trail" website [1] contains a number of reference resources,
> such as a list of battles [2], a detailed chronology of events [3] and a
> list of British Army units [4]. Resources like these would make
> tremendously useful shared points of reference across projects, if they were
> available as Linked Data.
>
> Does anyone have WW1 reference resources of any kind which are actually
> being shared across/between projects? If not, we might be said to be
> commemorating WW1 by re-living it: uncoordinated and separate attacks on the
> problem which briefly gain ground but which can't be joined together or
> sustained long-term [5, esp. the Northern Pincer].
>
> Richard
>
> [1] http://www.1914-1918.net/
> [2] http://www.1914-1918.net/greatwar.html
> [3] http://www.1914-1918.net/chronology/chronology.html
> [4] http://www.1914-1918.net/army.htm
> [5] http://www.1914-1918.net/bat11.htm
>
>
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> Kevin Bacon
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