Conal Tuohy's blog

Conal Tuohy's blog
The blog of a digital humanities software developer
	Analysis & Policy Online
Notes for my Open Repositories 2017 conference presentation. I will edit this post later to flesh it out into a proper blog post. Follow along at: conaltuohy.com/blog/analysis-policy-online/ background Early discussion with Amanda Lawrence of APO (which at that time stood for “Australian Policy Online”) about text mining, at the 2015 LODLAM Summit in Sydney. They … Continue reading Analysis & Policy Online
	A tool for Web API harvesting
As 2016 stumbles to an end, I’ve put in a few days’ work on my new project Oceania, which is to be a Linked Data service for cultural heritage in this part of the world. Part of this project involves harvesting data from cultural institutions which make their collections available via so-called “Web APIs”. There are … Continue reading A tool for Web API harvesting
	Oceania
I am really excited to have begun my latest project: a Linked Open Data service for online cultural heritage from New Zealand and Australia, and eventually, I hope, from our other neighbours. I have called the service “oceania.digital” The big idea of oceania.digital is to pull together threads from a number of different “cultural” data … Continue reading Oceania
	Australian Society of Archivists 2016 conference #asalinks
Last week I participated in the 2016 conference of the Australian Society of Archivists, in Parramatta. I was very impressed by the programme and the discussion. I thought I’d jot down a few notes here about just a few of the presentations that were most closely related to my own work. The presentations were all … Continue reading Australian Society of Archivists 2016 conference #asalinks
	Linked Open Data Visualisation at #GLAMVR16
On Thursday last week I flew to Perth, in Western Australia, to speak at an event at Curtin University on visualisation of cultural heritage. Erik Champion, Professor of Cultural Visualisation, who organised the event, had asked me to talk about digital heritage collections and Linked Open Data (“LOD”). The one-day event was entitled “GLAM VR: … Continue reading Linked Open Data Visualisation at #GLAMVR16
	Visualizing Government Archives through Linked Data
Tonight I’m knocking back a gin and tonic to celebrate finishing a piece of software development for my client the Public Record Office Victoria; the archives of the government of the Australian state of Victoria. The work, which will go live in a couple of weeks, was an update to a browser-based visualization tool which … Continue reading Visualizing Government Archives through Linked Data
	Taking control of an uncontrolled vocabulary
A couple of days ago, Dan McCreary tweeted: Working on new ideas for NoSQL metadata management for a talk next week. Focus on #NoSQL, Documents, Graphs and #SKOS. Any suggestions? — Dan McCreary (@dmccreary) November 14, 2015 It reminded me of some work I had done a couple of years ago for a project which … Continue reading Taking control of an uncontrolled vocabulary
	Bridging the conceptual gap: Museum Victoria’s collections API and the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
This is the third in a series of posts about an experimental Linked Open Data (LOD) publication based on the web API of Museum Victoria. The first post gave an introduction and overview of the architecture of the publication software, and the second dealt quite specifically with how names and identifiers work in the LOD … Continue reading Bridging the conceptual gap: Museum Victoria’s collections API and the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model
	Names in the Museum
My last blog post described an experimental Linked Open Data service I created, underpinned by Museum Victoria’s collection API. Mainly, I described the LOD service’s general framework, and explained how it worked in terms of data flow. To recap briefly, the LOD service receives a request from a browser and in turn translates that request … Continue reading Names in the Museum
	Linked Open Data built from a custom web API
I’ve spent a bit of time just recently poking at the new Web API of Museum Victoria Collections, and making a Linked Open Data service based on their API. I’m writing this up as an example of one way — a relatively easy way — to publish Linked Data off the back of some existing … Continue reading Linked Open Data built from a custom web API