open context for small-scale field science data - Eric Kansa - June 11 - IATUL 2007

Eric Kansa
Alexandria Archive Inst, Univ of Santa Clara, Berkeley, CA, USA

An open context for small-scale field science data

Open Context

http://www.opencontext.org/

[will move to UCBerkley School of Information - Services]

* small/field sciences
- lack of standards

* challenges
- data preservation
- data access and reuse
- data integration and synthesis

materials collections & field research data -> Open Context -> dissemination (common services)

complex querying
* data from multiple projects can be queried together

citation information with stable URL

COinS microformat - readble by Zotero

working on tools to allow individuals to publish their own material through Open Context

currently using version of AchaeoML -> so data sets require mapping to this schema

features
* can tag items
* can tag the results of queries
* support ping-backs (trackbacks)

folksonomies are easy to use and effective

Future Directions
- distributed architecture / web services [with UC Berkeley]
* Your collaboration