• Project: November 2019 - c.June 2020

  • Discovery Phase: November 2019 - January 2020

    • Deliverable: Catalogue Model Proposal

    • Show & Tell 1

  • Implementation Phase: February 2020 ->

    • Deliverable: Catalogue Data Model

    • Show & Tell 2

    • Deliverable: Implementation with TNA Data (Underway)

    • Deliverable: User Interface (Requirements elicitation underway)

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• TNA has many Catalogue like Systems

  • PROCat (ILDB) / DRI Catalogue / SAR / HMC / MYC

  • UKGWA / Discovery / DocsOnline / Record Copying / SFA(s)

  • Image Library / Digitiser / SIS / Multi-spectral Images

• These systems are not well-connected!

  • Different data-models

  • Different identifiers

  • Different technologies and owners

  • Lack of defined/documented interfaces

• Silos

  • No federated search

  • No single authoritative system

• A "Pan-Archival" Catalogue

  • Independent of Record Medium

  • Flexible Arrangement(s) of Records

  • Abstract Record - Concrete Manifestation(s)

  • Provenance as a 1st class concern

• Forward Looking System Design

  • Graph based system

  • Extensible with new knowledge

  • Open World Assumption

• Standards Based

  • RDF and SPARQL

  • Scala and TypeScript

• Building a (New) Data Model

  • Not Adopting ICA's RiC-O

    • Focused inward

    • Missing features - e.g. Versioning/Provenance

    • Not yet finished!

• Taking a "Records in Context" approach

  • The philosophy of RiC-CM

• Building upon the Matterhorn RDF Model

  • Reuse of existing standard Vocabularies

• Engaging with ICA

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