Project Pipeline: Preservation, Persistence, and Performance

Abstract

Preservation pipelines demonstrate extended value when digitized content is also computation-ready. Expanding this to historical controlled vocabularies requires additional steps if they are to be fully leveraged for research. This paper reports on work addressing this challenge. We report on a pipeline and project progress addressing three key goals: 1) transforming the 1910 Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) linked data standard, 2) implementing persistent identifiers (PIDs) and launching our prototype ARK resolver, and 3) importing the 1910 LCSH into the Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering (HIVE) System to support automatic metadata generation and scholarly analysis of the historical record. The discussion considers the implications of our work in the broader context of preservation, and the conclusion summarizes our work and identifies next steps.

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Creators
Jane Greenberg; Christopher B. Rauch; Mat Kelly
Institutions
Drexel University
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Keywords
computational archival science; historical vocabularies; digital preservation; persistence; pipelines
Publication Type
paper
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CC BY 4.0 International
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