Presentation give at the 2013 UK Archives Discovery Network (UKAD) forum http://www.ukad.org/forum2013/

1. how to get your archival data out of your system,
and what to do with it when you have.
Bethan Ruddock, UKAD Forum 2013
14:30, Room B

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You have valuable data that you want to share…
… but it’s locked inside a content management system

3. Push discovery, help researchers find
more stuff, promote use of your
collections, enable cool things like data
mining and visualisations, link to other
data sets, make the most of your time
and effort, store data in sustainable
formats, allow others to enhance your
data, embed in other sites and catalogues

5. Check what formats you can export data in:
?
EAD
Other forms of XML
CSV
SQL text format
HTML
Plain text

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/asbjorn_floden/238070320/

7. Well, what do you want to do with it?
Is your data in an appropriate format?
Archive catalogues – EAD
Library catalogues – MODS XML
Linked data – RDF/Dublin Core XML
Is it consistent? Transform it
XSLT
AtoM CSV Import

8. Well, what do you want to do with it?
Think about your audience
Is your data content appropriate?
Will it enable your audience to answer their
questions?
Are you allowing them to use it? How is it
licensed?

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/justanotherhuman/5795955558/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitta/30642918
Are you having problems getting your data
out of your system? Wondering how to
transform it? Want to know how others are
dealing with licensing issues? Not sure what
use cases there are for your data?