Bricolage

The following people are involved with this project:

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  Professor Mike Benton Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology Tel. (0117) 39 41208 mike.benton@bristol.ac.uk

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  Ms Claudia Hildebrandt Technical Specialist Tel. (0117) 954 5412 c.hildebrandt@bristol.ac.uk

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  Ms Hannah Lowery Archivist and Special Collections Manager Tel. (0117) 928 8014 h.j.lowery@bristol.ac.uk

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  Mr Jasper Tredgold SLSP Team Manager Tel. (0117) 4550782 jasper.tredgold@bristol.ac.uk

More about this project

The JISC-funded University of Bristol Collections as Linked Open Data (BRICOLAGE) project will publish catalogue metadata as Linked Open Data for two of its most significant collections: the Penguin Archive, a comprehensive collection of the publisher’s papers and books; and the Geology Museum, a 100,000 specimen collection housing many unique and irreplaceable resources. The metadata will be licensed for ease of reuse according to JISC guidelines. The project will re-apply the best practice processes and tools produced by relevant preceding projects to create persistent identifiers, identify and create links to authoritative datasets and vocabularies, and work with the two collections’ infrastructure platforms: CALM and Drupal. The Linked Data production workflows will be embedded in the collections’ teams to ensure future sustainability. The project will also produce two simple demonstrators to illustrate the potential of data linking and reuse, and will encode resource microdata into the Geology Museum’s forthcoming online catalogue with the aim of improving collection visibility via the major search engines.

• Special Collections (Penguin Collection)
• Geology Museum
• Eduserv

Project dates

01 Feb 2012

Project funder:

JISC