E-infrastructure for Facilitating Access and Research of KBR’s Collections as Data

Mission

To develop an automated data-on-demand infrastructure that allows researchers to query, compile, and export unique data corpora from KBR’s digital collections (both digitised and digitally-born) in just a few clicks. The commitment to FAIR is central – to ensuring Belgian cultural heritage data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

To support the growing research data infrastructure at KBR, this project will focus on preparing a pilot technical infrastructure with a graphic user interface for providing machine-readable access to ~3.1 million catalogue records (MARC21 XML), hundreds of digitised historical newspapers and periodicals via BelgicaPress, and KBR’s growing born-digital collections.

It will include the following technical features:

• API Query Service: search across diverse document types;
• Federated Authentication: seamless access via Belnet and EduGain for Belgian and European researchers;
• Large Data Export: experimenting with facilities for transferring datasets up to and exceeding 100 GB.API-zoekdienst: zoeken in diverse documenttypes;

Contact

Prof. dr. Julie M. Birkholz, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at the Department of History & GhentCDH at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, & Lead of the Digital Research Lab
whyvr.ovexubym@htrag.or

This infrastructural project is financed by the Belgian Science Policy Office (Belspo) as part of the ESFRI programme, project #EF/212/KBRVirtualLab and makes contributions to DARIAH. Belnet is a subcontractor on this project.