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Archaeology Journal</a></li> <li class="page_item page-item-11232"><a href="https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/about/ads-newsletter/">ADS Newsletter</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div class="m-article-header"> <h1>Metadata services</h1> </div> <div class="m-article"> <p><strong>ADS offer a range of services which allow machine readable access to the metadata we hold. In addition our metadata is shared with a number of external services and catalogues.</strong></p> <h2>OAI-PMH</h2> <p>The ADS provides an OAI-PMH target for other archives or interested parties to harvest information from our repository. To harvest the data from our target, a harvester must be built and pointed at one of our endpoints. You can find out more about setting up an OAI-PMH and building your own harvester at the links below:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html">The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/tools/tools.php">OAI-PMH Tools</a></li> </ul> <p>The ADS currently has three targets; archives, journals, and oasis. The ADS also publishes one target for Internet Archaeology articles.</p> <h3>Archives:</h3> <p>Includes predefined sets (optional constructs for grouping items) created for specific funders such as MEDIN and NERC, and also a number of UK Higher Education organisations for retrieval of their own projects.</p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Endpoint:</strong></td> <td>http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/oai/archives/OAIHandler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Schemas:</strong></td> <td>oai_dc, ads_archive, nerc_dds, medin_ddp</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Sets:</strong></td> <td>ALL, LONDON, NERC, MEDIN, OXFORD, BRISTOL, UCL, SOTON</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Sample Identifier:</strong></td> <td>oai:archaeologydataservice.ac.uk:COLL_ID_1000762</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3>Journals:</h3> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Endpoint:</strong></td> <td>http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/oai/journals/OAIHandler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Schema:</strong></td> <td>oph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Set:</strong></td> <td>ALL</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Sample Identifier:</strong></td> <td>oai:archaeologydataservice.ac.uk:JNL_1000787</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3>OASIS:</h3> <p>Inlcudes a predefined set (optional constructs for grouping items) created for MEDIN for all maritime reports.</p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Endpoint:</strong></td> <td>http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/oai/oasis/OAIHandler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Schema:</strong></td> <td>medin_ddp</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Set:</strong></td> <td>ALL, MEDIN</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Sample Identifier:</strong></td> <td>oai:oasis.ac.uk:wessexar1-4936</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3>Internet Archaeology:</h3> <p>Inlcudes a predefined set (optional constructs for grouping items) created for MEDIN for all maritime reports.</p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Endpoint:</strong></td> <td>http://intarch.ac.uk/oai/articles/OAIHandler</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Schemas:</strong></td> <td>oai_dc, medin_ddp</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Sets:</strong></td> <td>ALL, MEDIN</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Sample Identifier:</strong></td> <td>oai:intarch.ac.uk:COLL_ID_1001303</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h2>Linked Open Data</h2> <p>The ADS Linked Open Data are made available as a direct result of the聽STELLAR聽project, a joint venture between the University of South Wales, the ADS and Historic England (formely known as English Heritage).</p> <p>The聽<a href="http://data.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/">ADS Linked Data repository</a>聽contains triples for each ADS Archive.</p> <p>The ADS also provides a聽<a href="http://data.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/query/">SPARQL query web interface</a> which can be used to interrogate the ADS triple store directly. However, interacting with SPARQL endpoints, is much easier and more fruitful, using one of the many SPARQL clients available.</p> <h2>External Services and Delivery</h2> <p>A growing number of external services consume our metadata. For Objects this is primarily for documents such as unpublished reports and journal articles.</p> <h2>ARIADNE</h2> <p>The聽<a title="Link to Ariadne portal" href="http://portal.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/">ARIADNE Portal</a>聽brings together archaeological research datasets from ARIADNE partners from Europe and beyond.</p> <p>The ADS supply all Archsearch Inventory datasets, all records of unpublished reports, andall records for Archives to ARIADNE. Data is mapped to the ARIADNE AO-Cat, an application profile of the聽<a title="Link to CIDOC website" href="http://www.cidoc-crm.org/">CIDOC CRM</a>, and exported as XML. The subject terms used by the ADS (commonly UK heritage thesauri) have all been mapped to The聽<a href="https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/">Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus</a>, which is used as the spine of the ARIADNE model.</p> <p>ADS Datasets can thus be cross-searched with equivalents from across the world. Each metadata record (for example聽<a href="https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archsearch/record?titleId=1131972">this record from the NRHE Excavation Index</a>) provides a link back to the original ADS resource, an option to Cite the record using the ADS DOI or URI, and and a statement covering the Terms and Conditions of Use. The metadata is available to download as JSON or XML in the Ariadne Data Model.</p> <h2>MEDIN (Marine Environmental Data and Information Network)</h2> <p>Metadata for maritime archives is exported out of the ADS CMS and supplied as XML in the聽<a title="Link to MEDIN Metadata webpage" href="https://www.medin.org.uk/medin-discovery-metadata-standard">MEDIN Metadata Schema</a>聽to the聽<a title="Link to MEDIN Data Portal" href="https://portal.medin.org.uk/">MEDIN Data Portal</a>.</p> <p>Metadata for OASIS reports is made available as a distinct set within an OAI-PMH target (see above).</p> <p>ADS Archives and OASIS reports can thus be cross-searched alongside other subject areas such as Oceanogrpahy and Flora and Fauna. Each metadata record (for example see the聽<a title="Link to MEDIN metadata record for HMS Colossus" href="https://portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start.php#details?tpc=010_c7c0dae30f7f5484cb311d0a1724dc83">record for HMS Colossus</a>) contains the DOI linking back to the ADS website, and a statement covering the Terms and Conditions of Use. The metadata is available to download as XML in the MEDIN Schema, and Dublin Core (DCMES).</p> <h2>NERC</h2> <p>The聽<a href="https://data-search.nerc.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search;jsessionid=11985C34641C5916B9A73542921EC40F#/home">NERC Data Catalogue Service</a>聽provides access to all NERC funded datasets. Via the OAI-PMH Archives target, ADS shares metadata of all NERC project datasets it holds. Access to this metdadata is via the聽<a title="Link to example of ADS metadata in NERC Data Catalogue" href="https://data-search.nerc.ac.uk/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search;jsessionid=11985C34641C5916B9A73542921EC40F#/metadata/oai:archaeologydataservice.ac.uk:COLL_ID_1003757">Data Catalogue</a>, where it can also be downloaded in a variety of formats including XML and RDF.</p> <h2>Heritage Gateway</h2> <p>All English inventory records held in Archsearch are made avialable to the聽<a href="https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/">Heritage Gateway</a>聽as a SOAP Web Service and Web Map Service (WMS). Heritage Gateway resources are reploaded periodically, upon the request of the Depositor.</p> <h2>DataCite</h2> <p>Each Archive, and most OASIS reports and Journal Articles have a DOI assigned via DataCite. Metadata is supplied in the DataCite Metadata format, via the DataCite API. ADS maintain responsibility for updating metadata, usually upon any sigifncant change or correction. 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