We've always taken a catholic view of the format of material that SAS-Space should hold, but the bulk of our holdings is still nonetheless 'traditional' PDF files. I'm very pleased to note a recent deposit of data from the LiPARM (Linking Parliamentary Records through Metadata) project in the IHR.
Funded by the JISC, the
project will allow for the first time the federated searching and browsing of UK
and Ireland Parliamentary papers by defining and implementing a unified metadata
strategy for historical and contemporary parliamentary digitisation projects.
The project has defined a generic XML schema for parliamentary metadata, along with
controlled vocabularies for key components of this metadata, and will produce a
platform for a union catalogue of these materials based on the records created.
Key collections will be enhanced to allow their content to be accessed via the
catalogue.
The project has recently deposited the XML schema, an example file, and XML lists of constituencies, Acts and members for Westminster and Stormont. View the data here.
As well as this particular data being now available and in the public domain for reuse, it gives us food for thought about ways and means of providing more dynamic ways of using data that is already in SAS-Space.
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