Creating and Consuming Metadata from Transcribed Historical Vital Records for Ingestion in a Long-Term Digital Preservation Platform
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The document discusses the Irish Record Linkage project (1864-1913) focused on creating a platform for metadata management from transcribed historical vital records for long-term digital preservation. It involves a collaboration of historians, digital archivists, and knowledge engineers to analyze maternal and infant mortality rates in Dublin, utilizing RDF and qualified Dublin Core metadata. The project has resulted in an automated process for uploading and preserving these digital assets, with plans for future evaluations and comparisons of metadata standards.
![IRL: Irish Record Linkage, 1864 - 1913
In prior work (see [1]), we created a Linked Data plaLorm that allowed Digital
Archivists to transcribe register pages, which were then transformed into RDF. That
RDF was then used to populate other triplestores to analyze that data.
Part of the project, however, was also to inves;gate the digital long-term
preserva;on of the digi;zed register pages, and the corresponding RDF.
CreaMon of IRL
Knowledge Base
RelaMonal
Database
GRO
Triplestore
TransformaMon
Vital Records
Ontology
SeparaMon of Concerns
Historical Events
Ontology
IRL
Triplestore
Data AnalyMcs
Digital Archivist Historian
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Method: Crea;ng Qualified Dublin Core Metadata
• AdopMng the guidelines formulated in [2], we adopted XSPARQL
[3] to transform RDF documents in Qualified Dublin Core
Metadata Documents. We thus have an RDF file and a QDC file
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![IRL: Irish Record Linkage, 1864 - 1913
Register Page
District/Union/County [SPATIAL COVERAGE]
Superintendent registrar's district
Date cerMfied as true copy by superintendent registrar [ISSUED]
Date cerMfied by registrar [CREATED]
Forename/surname registrar on page
Forename/surname superintendent registrar [CREATOR]
Page number/Volume/Quarter
Stamp number [IDENTIFIER / used in TITLE]
Year registered [TEMPORAL COVERAGE]
Record
Date of registraMon
Title/forename/surname
registrar
Amendments
Number in register
CerMficate
Forename/surname (of subject) [PART OF
DESCRIPTION]
Address (of subject)
Sex (of subject) [PART OF DESCRIPTION]
Forename/surname informant
QualificaMon of informant
RelaMonship of informant
Residence of informant
Death Record
Forename/surname of registrar
Date of death [PART OF DESCRIPTION]
Cause of death and duraMon of illness
CondiMon
Age last birthday
Place of residence
Rank, profession or occupaMon
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Creating and Consuming Metadata from Transcribed Historical Vital Records for Ingestion in a Long-Term Digital Preservation Platform
- 3. IRL: Irish Record Linkage, 1864 - 1913 General Registers Office (GRO) • Vital registration data: birth- certificates, death-certificates and marriage records. • Digitised TIFF images of hardcopy indexes and registers. • 2 TB of data • Database describing the digitised records allowing searches on some fields. ©General Records Office of Ireland 2014
- 5. IRL: Irish Record Linkage, 1864 - 1913 Related work • Related work on the preservaMon of harvested metadata exist, e.g., in the context of GLAMS. • Liale work was to be found in the context of historical (vital) records. It was limited to integraMon problems and addressing the problem record linking in databases. • We also wanted to focus on research project agnosMc transcripMon of historical vital records (separaMon of concerns)
- 6. IRL: Irish Record Linkage, 1864 - 1913 Method: Crea;ng RDF Documents • Register pages are idenMfied by a stamp number (e.g. “4646439”). We collect the triples around a page and related records with the following query to create an RDF document. • PREFIX rec: <hap://purl.org/net/irish-record-linkage/records#> DESCRIBE * { ?page rec:stampNumber "4646439"; rec:withRecord ?record. } • We also add a foaf:primaryTopic statement to the document.
- 11. IRL: Irish Record Linkage, 1864 - 1913 Method: Bulk Inges;on into a Digital Long Term Repository • We adopted the Digital Repository of Ireland hap://repository.dri.ie/ • Provides item by item ingesMon, or bulk inges;on via a command line tools. • Files (digiMzed register pages, RDF and QDC) are named in a certain way to related QDC with the digiMzed asset and RDF transcripMon.
- 13. IRL: Irish Record Linkage, 1864 - 1913 Conclusions and Future Work • We created an automated process for creaMng and uploading assets, RDF transcripMons and associated metadata in a long term preservaMon plaLorm. • EvaluaMon is limited due to the data sharing agreements; in terms of discoverability on the repository via faceted search and in terms of suitability of the metadata via expert feedback. • Comparison of Qualified Dublin Core with Encoded Archival DescripMon (EAD) is to be conducted as well.
- 14. IRL: Irish Record Linkage, 1864 - 1913 References 1. Christophe Debruyne, Oya Deniz Beyan, Rebecca Grant, Sandra Collins, Stefan Decker: On a Linked Data PlaLorm for Irish Historical Vital Records. TPDL 2015: 99-110 2. BusMllo, M., Collins, S., Gallagher, D., Grant, R., Harrower, N., Kenny, S., Ní Cholla, R., O’Carroll, A., Redmond, S., Webb, S.: Qualified Dublin Core and the Digital Repository of Ireland (Grant, R. ed.). Tech. rep., Maynooth: Maynooth University; Dublin: Trinity College Dublin; Dublin: Royal Irish Academy; Galway: NaMonal University of Ireland, Galway (2015) 3. Dell’Aglio, D., Polleres, A., Lopes, N., Bischof, S.: Querying the Web of Data with XSPARQL 1.1. In: Verborgh, R., Mannens, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the ISWC Developers Workshop 2014, co-located with the 13th InternaMonal SemanMc Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Riva del Garda, Italy, October 19, 2014. CEUR Work- shop Proceedings, vol. 1268, pp. 113–118. CEUR-WS.org (2014)