a hint of_mint

A Hint of Mint

Peter Seftonpt@ptsefton.comDuncan Dickinson

duncan@dickinson.name

Funding by ANDS

Background: The ReDBox application

• A registry of metadata about research data  (Research Data Box)

• Driven by both compliance and openness• Funded by The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) • Developed in collaboration with The University of Newcastle• Based on The Fascinator (Fedora + Solr) platform• Both ReDBox and Mint are Java/Python based and under

an open-source license

Motivation

• The cognoscenti  talk about 'linked data' and have RDFa license plates on their cars, but...

Repository metadata is all strings

Photo by http://www.flickr.com/photos/easement/

"Aggregated Assault"Some real IR metadata, aggregated using dc:typeJournal Article (184) PeerReviewed (105) Article (75) Thesis (66) Book chapter (65) NonPeerReviewed (62) Conference Paper (35) Journal Articles (Refereed Article) (30) c1 (28) techreport (27) Full-text link or file (26) Conference or Workshop Item (DEST Category E) (21) PhD Doctorate (20) 

Article (DEST Category C) (19) journal article (18) Book Chapter (17) text (14) Book Section (10) Report (9) Conference Publications (Full Written Paper - Refereed) (8) Conference or Workshop Item (8) e1 (8) Book Chapters (7) b1 (7) Book Chapter (DEST Category B) (5) 

I'm tagged but what's my identity?

RSPCA name: WayneAt the vet: Bootsy SeftonLocal council: Bootsy Sefton ID 555-888-888RSPCA ID: 555-555-555 (owner <name-withheld>)RDFID tag: 555-777-777At the park: Bootsy

The Mint's Misson

URI's for (lost) dogs?

The mint is a practical tool

bdarcus

@ptsefton the point is give the dog a URI and be done; no need for philosophical contemplation ;-)

The Mint's mission

Bring linked data to your university library systems

(in addition to the new coffee shop - sorry 'learning commons') 

via much-needed authority services

Mint features

• Desgined for developers first - with usable APIs.o Simple import of vocabularies or names

Spreadsheets SKOS Anything you can script

o Lookup services return useful JSON (not raw RDF)

• So they can help users with:o Usable interfaces to authority recordso Translucent metadata 'URIs inside'o Useful discovery

What can you put in it?

Behind the scenes - lookuphttp://novadev2.newcastle.edu.au:8086/mint/master/opensearch/lookup?searchTerms=smith to lookup names matching "smith". {"OpenSearchResponse": { "title": "General Search", ... }, "namespaces": { "dc": "http://purl.org/dc/terms", ... }, "results": [ { "result-metadata": { "relevance": 1.482809 } "rdf:about": "http://novadev2.newcastle.edu.au:8086/mint/default/master/detail/a8692f6d28486eddebd317d1bc0939a4", ... }

Mint Features: The data day spa*

• Fire up a Mint instance• Import data• Clean it• Export it• Kill the software

Data love going to the day spa

Day Spa example:  Name matching

The compulsory architecture diagram

Links

• ReDBox-Mint:o Public site: https://sites.google.com/site/redboxmint/o Development site: http://code.google.com/p/redbox-mint/

• The Fascinator:o Public site: http://sites.google.com/site/fascinatorhome/o Development site: 

http://code.google.com/p/the-fascinator/• Author sites:

o Peter Sefton: http://ptsefton.como Duncan Dickinson: http://duncan.dickinson.name  

Acknowledgements

The work described here is a collaboration between:• The University of Southern Queensland• The University of Newcastle• Swinburne University of Technology

The authors wish to acknowledge and thank the development team of:• Oliver Lucido• Linda Octalina• Greg Pendlebury• Ron Ward

Thanks  

Questions?