Heurist Integration Project

This project will act as a focussed pilot of a strategy for mitigating the institutional risk posed by humanities collections currently in Heurist, by demonstrating the ability to migrate them to a format which preserves their scholarship and which is accessible without major software dependencies. The project will migrate a significant humanities data collection from the Heurist platform to a file-based format based on linked data standards and principles, and make it available as part of the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA). Migrating the collection will allow the work done in Heurist to be brought into a wider humanities data commons, opening it up to tools developed as part of the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) and will leverage existing work from that project, LDaCA and the Time Layered Cultural Map to provide discovery and exploration interfaces. The technical approach is an incremental step towards a future state with a modular architecture in which separate use cases such as data description, storage and discovery are handled by separate software components which can be maintained and updated more easily than a single complex system. Tooling and standards developed as part of this project will be made available as part of the HASS and Indigenous Research Commons and the Community Data Lab.

Documentation

• Heurist Sustainability - RO-Crate Architecture
• Wireframes from Oni UX enhancements

Outputs

• Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia
• RO-Crate Mapping for OMAA