[open-archaeology] Open Data from Oxford Archaeology

[luca bianconi]

Hi Joseph,

as I've already had the chance to tell you during a private conversation,
this activity you've publishing here is a really interesting one!
I would like seeing many others following your example, doing the same
you've done with http://library.thehumanjourney.net/ .

Cheers,
Luca

2010/3/22 Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com>

> Dear all,
>
> I'd like to invite you to a sneak preview of the Oxford Archaeology
> Library site we've been working on here:
>
> http://library.thehumanjourney.net/
>
> I'll start by echoing Chris' request [1] :
>
> "Be gentle, it hasn't been properly load tested yet, and preferably
> don't blog/tweet/<insert correct terminology for adding stuff to
> facebook/linkedin/networking site of choice> about it for a week or so
> while more content gets added..."
>
> The site will be used primarily to disseminate our grey literature
> client reports, although a wider range of material will be uploaded in
> the future. At the moment the site is a little small as it only
> contains reports produced by our Oxford office - we've got 4 more
> permanent offices that will be contributing their reports to it, so it
> should be swelling in size soon. I'd like to announce it to the wider
> world when it's looking as impressive as possible, which is why I've
> copied Chris' request for a lack of blogging ;)
>
> At some point in the future we'll be adding a map view to the site, as
> well as numerous tweaks that will take place on a rolling basis. I'm
> announcing it to the Open Archaeology community in the hope that some
> critical feedback will help improve the service before it's launched
> to those that are not specialists in Open Data. I'm also really
> interested in people using the site not just to look up pdfs to
> download, but also for mashups and other trendy Web 2.0 things. To
> this end we support the Open Archives Initiative [2] via the following
> address:
>
> http://library.thehumanjourney.net/cgi/oai2
>
> To be honest, I've not tried to do anything with this interface, but
> it seems like a very straightforward way to pull all of our data from
> the Library into other applications. I really want people to be using
> this site to read our reports, but I would be more pleased to see
> third parties doing new things with our reports and data via their own
> semantic web services.
>
> Please let me know through the list about any feedback, although I am
> going on leave for the remainder of the week, so I'll admit that this
> mini announcement was perhaps not timed as well as it could have been.
> Still, I'll try my best with any feedback sent.
>
> Cheers, Joseph
>
>
>
> [1]
> http://groups.google.com/group/antiquist/browse_thread/thread/039b2cf5c1aea234#
> [2] http://www.openarchives.org/
>
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