Humanities Networked Infrastructure at Melbourne Linked Open Data, Libraries Archives and Museums event 2012-04-17

1. HuNI
Conal Tuohy
Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative
conal.tuohy@versi.edu.au
@conal_tuohy

2. HuNI
Humanities Networked Infrastructure
It's pronounced “honey”

3. NeCTAR
National eResearch Collaboration Tools
and Resources
Federal government project
$47 million over 2 years
Virtual Laboratories (including HuNI)
eResearch Tools
Research Cloud

4. The HuNI Consortium
The University of Queensland
Australian National University
Deakin University
Flinders University
Macquarie University
The University of New South Wales
The University of Sydney
The University of Melbourne

5. The Data
Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB),
AustLit,
AusStage,
Designers and Art Australian Online (DAAO),
Cinema and Audiences Research Project
(CAARP),
AUSTLANG: Australian Indigenous
Languages Database,
AIATSIS Mura catalogue,
bonza: National Cinema and Television
Database,

8. Data Sets
Providers are at different institutions
Different subject domains
Hosted on different software platforms
Various levels of LOD-ness
Various levels of technical expertise

9. Aggregation
Some providers are 5-star LOD heroes already
Some have got OAI-PMH servers providing
structured data in XML
Some have got other standard interfaces such as
the library search protocol Z39.50
Some have got websites made of out small
pieces of string and glue
We aim to support them all!

10. Syndication
Query the LOD using SPARQL
Access RDF graphs via HTTP
Access the data as RSS, Atom, etc.
Access the data through custom tools
(annotators, mashup tools)
Embed data in web pages using HuNI-supplied
widgets:
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://www.huni.net.au/js/related-links.js”/>