Evaluate the wiki-cloud implementation of Records in Contexts for the catalog

[regineheberlein]

Introduction

Records in Contexts ("RiC") is the new international descriptive standard for archives. It consists of a conceptual model and an owl ontology. While the ontology is itself just one of many possible implementations, RiC assumes implementation as linked data.

Problem Statement

Adoption of Records in Contexts by PUL and/or the community will mean significant changes to the data structures and infrastructure involved. We don't yet know how all of that will shake out (and in particular the role that ArchivesSpace will play in it), but we can probably anticipate an RDF serialization and triplestore or wikibase being involved.

There is no content management application yet that supports Records in Contexts. For this experiment, we can use this wiki-cloud implementation of the Records in Contexts conceptual model to explore how the record structure will change and what it would take to get collection-level records out of a wikibase and into bibdata.

The wikibase currently defines the first- (Wikidata) and second-level (RiC) entities and properties. It does not yet contain descriptive metadata.

Initial Goals

• Create statements that together form a minimal collection-level record
• Write a SPARQL to assemble a record document
• Download and transfer the record
• Map and transform the record to solr, possibly using bibdata

Acceptance criteria

• If there is no research directory, create one.
• Update an existing markdown document or add a new one in the research directory.
• It has introduction: Explains the goals and purpose of this research work.
• It lists methods: Describe what you did to research the question.
• It has a conclusion: Includes a summary of what was discovered in the research process.
• It has a step by step list of potential next steps that build upon the research.
• It includes references: References any related resources that have assisted in the research process (links to other tickets, online articles etc.).
• It includes any artifacts (charts, notes, code samples etc.) that were produced during the work.