A description of the activities planned under phase 2 of the Discovery programme.

Phase2

Phase 2 of the Discovery programme will retain a focus on open metadata projects but will devote more effort to reusing that metadata to help with research and learning.

Phase 2 is split into 3 sections:

Advise, guide and advocate

The Discovery website will continue to be the central point of advice, guidance and advocacy for the Discovery programme. The site will present the findings of all the projects and the studies we find and ensure that the findings are easy to understand and act upon. In addition to this we have devoted effort to engaging stakeholders and ensuring that we understand what they need from Discovery.

Open metadata

We have funded further open metadata projects in libraries, museums and archives. These projects focus on making open metadata available in line with the Discovery open metadata and technical principles:

  • Bricolage - 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. University of Bristol
  • Open Education Metadata UK - will publish metadata sourced from four significant UK education collections as Open Data in a variety of formats, for anyone to reuse as linked data in their own applications. In addition, subsets of two collections which have high latent potential for linked data will be catalogued. Institute of Education
  • Open Book - will release open metadata for the Fitzwilliam's Designated Collection (over 150,000 records) and linked open data for the internationally important collection of illuminated manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum (approximately 500 manuscripts records). The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
  • Music Collections at Cardiff University: Advancing the Resource - focuses on a collection of manuscript and printed music from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a resource of nearly 3000 items largely unknown to the wider scholarly community. This project will catalogue the material online, and make the data available through the Archives Hub and COPAC, as well as RISM (UK) (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales). Cardiff University
  • Trenches to Triples - will provide Linked Data markup to 200 collection level descriptions and 6,000 item level catalogue entries relating to the First World War from the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives and will also provide a demonstrator for using Linked Data to make appropriate connections between image databases, Serving Soldier, and detailed catalogues. King's College London
Developing services and exemplars

There is a strong focus in this phase on making use of open metadata. We have funded the following projects to address researcher and learner needs by building services on top of open metadata:

Exemplars

We are developing 2 large scale exemplars to show what is possible if open metadata on a particular research topic is aggregated. One exemplar, developed by EDINA, will be on the topic of Shakespeare, the other, developed by Mimas, will be on the topic of World War 1.

Services
  • Contextual wrappers 2 - will develop resource discovery services for people interested in museum resources by using open, integrated and contextualised collections information from across University Museums. Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.
  • Copac collection management - developing a tool that libraries can use to analyse their collections in comparison to other university libraries by using the data stored in Copac. Mimas
  • Digital Bodleian - provide linked data, apis and a new user interface for the Bodleian's substantial collection of digital assets. University of Oxford
  • DiscoverEDINA - a three pronged project that is developing software to extract metadata from and embed new metadata in multimedia content; developing a crowd sourcing tool for the enriching the metadata about the content in JISC MediaHub; enhance the open linked data available from SUNCAT. EDINA.
  • Pelagios 2 - developing a toolkit for Ancient World resources so that collection providers can expose their metadata and find and visualise geospatial connections between open collections of Ancient World resources. Open University.
  • Search25 - will provide a new open resource discovery experience at the M25 consortium regional level, offering researchers the advantages of both local/regional and national resource discovery.
  • Servicecore - will develop the core repository tool to enable users to find papers that are on similar topics in the UK's repositories.
  • Step Change - will embed functionality to create linked data into the cataloguing interface of the CALM archive software, will enhance the UK archival thesaurus so it can be used as a semantic tagging tool and will work with Historypin to enable the geographical exploration of archive content. 
  • The cutting edge - will create a new online resource to support teaching and research into tools with sharp edges, it will do this by bringing together metadata from several important collections housed within the Great North Museum.
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