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Crea;ngandConsumingMetadatafromTranscribedHistoricalVitalRecordsforInges;oninaLong-term

DigitalPreserva;onPlaIorm

DoloresGrant(a)ChristopheDebruyne(b),RebeccaGrant(a),andSandraCollins(a)

(a)  DigitalRepositoryofIreland,RoyalIrishAcademy,Dublin,Ireland(b)  ADAPT@TrinityCollegeDublin,Dublin,Ireland

October27,2015@META4eS

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DevelopingaplaLormapplyingsemanMctechnologiestohistoricalbirth,deathandmarriagecerMficates.AnsweringquesMonssuchas:“Howaccuratearehistoricmaternalmortalityrates(MMR)andinfantmortalityrates(IMR)forDublin?”Teamconsistsofresearchers(historians),digitalarchivists,andknowledgeengineers.

Knowledge and Linked Data Engineers

HistoriansDigital Archivists

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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

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Inpriorwork(see[1]),wecreatedaLinkedDataplaLormthatallowedDigitalArchiviststotranscriberegisterpages,whichwerethentransformedintoRDF.ThatRDFwasthenusedtopopulateothertriplestorestoanalyzethatdata.Partoftheproject,however,wasalsotoinves;gatethedigitallong-termpreserva;onofthedigi;zedregisterpages,andthecorrespondingRDF.

CreaMonofIRLKnowledgeBase

RelaMonalDatabase

GROTriplestore

TransformaMonVitalRecordsOntology

SeparaMo

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cerns

HistoricalEventsOntology

IRLTriplestore

DataAnalyMcs

DigitalArchivist Historian

LODCloud

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Relatedwork•  RelatedworkonthepreservaMonofharvestedmetadataexist,

e.g.,inthecontextofGLAMS.

•  Lialeworkwastobefoundinthecontextofhistorical(vital)records.ItwaslimitedtointegraMonproblemsandaddressingtheproblemrecordlinkingindatabases.

•  WealsowantedtofocusonresearchprojectagnosMctranscripMonofhistoricalvitalrecords(separaMonofconcerns)

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Method:Crea;ngRDFDocuments•  RegisterpagesareidenMfiedbyastampnumber(e.g.

“4646439”).WecollectthetriplesaroundapageandrelatedrecordswiththefollowingquerytocreateanRDFdocument.

•  PREFIXrec:<hap://purl.org/net/irish-record-linkage/records#>DESCRIBE*{ ?pagerec:stampNumber"4646439"; rec:withRecord?record. }

•  Wealsoaddafoaf:primaryTopicstatementtothedocument.

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Method:Crea;ngQualifiedDublinCoreMetadata•  AdopMngtheguidelinesformulatedin[2],weadoptedXSPARQL

[3]totransformRDFdocumentsinQualifiedDublinCoreMetadataDocuments.WethushaveanRDFfileandaQDCfileforeachregisterpage.

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RegisterPage

District/Union/County[SPATIALCOVERAGE]Superintendentregistrar'sdistrictDatecerMfiedastruecopybysuperintendentregistrar[ISSUED]DatecerMfiedbyregistrar[CREATED]Forename/surnameregistraronpageForename/surnamesuperintendentregistrar[CREATOR]Pagenumber/Volume/QuarterStampnumber[IDENTIFIER/usedinTITLE]Yearregistered[TEMPORALCOVERAGE]

Record

DateofregistraMonTitle/forename/surnameregistrarAmendmentsNumberinregister

CerMficate

Forename/surname(ofsubject)[PARTOFDESCRIPTION]Address(ofsubject)Sex(ofsubject)[PARTOFDESCRIPTION]Forename/surnameinformantQualificaMonofinformantRelaMonshipofinformantResidenceofinformant

DeathRecord

Forename/surnameofregistrarDateofdeath[PARTOFDESCRIPTION]CauseofdeathandduraMonofillnessCondiMonAgelastbirthdayPlaceofresidenceRank,professionoroccupaMon

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RelaMonalDatabase

GROTriplestore

TransformaMon

VitalRecordsOntology

DigitalArchivist

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RDFFile2

RDFFilen

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PartoftheIRLPlaLorm

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Method:BulkInges;onintoaDigitalLongTermRepository•  WeadoptedtheDigitalRepositoryofIreland

hap://repository.dri.ie/

•  ProvidesitembyitemingesMon,orbulkinges;onviaacommandlinetools.

•  Files(digiMzedregisterpages,RDFandQDC)arenamedinacertainwaytorelatedQDCwiththedigiMzedassetandRDFtranscripMon.

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ConclusionsandFutureWork•  WecreatedanautomatedprocessforcreaMnganduploading

assets,RDFtranscripMonsandassociatedmetadatainalongtermpreservaMonplaLorm.

•  EvaluaMonislimitedduetothedatasharingagreements;intermsofdiscoverabilityontherepositoryviafacetedsearchandintermsofsuitabilityofthemetadataviaexpertfeedback.

•  ComparisonofQualifiedDublinCorewithEncodedArchivalDescripMon(EAD)istobeconductedaswell.

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References1.  ChristopheDebruyne,OyaDenizBeyan,RebeccaGrant,SandraCollins,StefanDecker:On

aLinkedDataPlaLormforIrishHistoricalVitalRecords.TPDL2015:99-1102.  BusMllo,M.,Collins,S.,Gallagher,D.,Grant,R.,Harrower,N.,Kenny,S.,NíCholla,R.,

O’Carroll,A.,Redmond,S.,Webb,S.:QualifiedDublinCoreandtheDigitalRepositoryofIreland(Grant,R.ed.).Tech.rep.,Maynooth:MaynoothUniversity;Dublin:TrinityCollegeDublin;Dublin:RoyalIrishAcademy;Galway:NaMonalUniversityofIreland,Galway(2015)

3.  Dell’Aglio,D.,Polleres,A.,Lopes,N.,Bischof,S.:QueryingtheWebofDatawithXSPARQL1.1.In:Verborgh,R.,Mannens,E.(eds.)ProceedingsoftheISWCDevelopersWorkshop2014,co-locatedwiththe13thInternaMonalSemanMcWebConference(ISWC2014),RivadelGarda,Italy,October19,2014.CEURWork-shopProceedings,vol.1268,pp.113–118.CEUR-WS.org(2014)

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QuesMons?

MoreinformaMon•  Twiaer:@IRL_Project•  Projectwebsitehap://irishrecordlinkage.wordpress.com/