YLE Elävä arkisto and Arkivet
Finnish National Broadcasting company (YLE) has published metadata of their Elävä arkisto and Arkivet archives. Wandora team has created the Wandora application several extractors that transform the published metadata into a topic maps format. Created extractors will be part of Wandora applications released after 2015-05-06. The data packages used in the topic maps transformation were downloaded 2015-05-06. This page provides download links to the topic maps of transformed data. Also, this page shows some easy use cases for the topic maps data.
Created topic maps may interest Finnish developers exploring YLE's metadata and building applications and visualizations with the data. The information in original metadata and topic maps transformations is mostly in Finnish.
Download
The YLE Elävä arkisto and Arkivet topic map is available as Wandora project file:
As the project is very large, we suggest you load the project into Wandora application with a memory footprint of 16G. Start Wandora application with a startup script Wandora-16g.
License
Metadata license is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
Original metadata provider is Finnish National Broadcasting company (YLE) and Elävä arkisto and Arkivet archives.
About the topic maps
The Elävä arkisto and Arkivet topic maps are wrapped into a Wandora project file. The project file is loaded to Wandora application with a menu option File > Open project. The project contains five topic map layers. Each layer contains information from one source file. As all source files use identifiers consistently, topics in different layers representing same concept merge. The topic map layers are
- Base layer holds Wandora's base ontology.
- yle - elava-arkisto - articles includes metadata from articles.cvs available at http://elavaarkisto.kokeile.yle.fi/data/articles.csv . The topic map contains topics for article web pages including article identifier, name, source service and article language.
- yle - elava-arkisto - article addons includes metadata from articles-additional-fields.cvs available at http://elavaarkisto.kokeile.yle.fi/data/articles-additional-fields.csv . The topic map contains article editors, contributors and additional identifiers.
- yle - elava-arkisto - article media includes metadata from media-article.cvs available at http://elavaarkisto.kokeile.yle.fi/data/media-article.csv . The topic map contains media identifiers that are linked to the articles. Media identifiers can be used to resolve videos and audio tracks of the articles.
- yle - elava-arkisto - tags includes metadata from article-tags.cvs available at http://elavaarkisto.kokeile.yle.fi/data/article-tags.csv . The topic map contains tags linked to the articles.
Once the project file is opened in Wandora application, the user should see all available topic map layers left bottom of application window. The topic tree left top views Elava-arkisto topic that can be used to start browsing the data. Next screen capture views Wandora application after the user has opened topic Elava-arkisto article to the Traditional topic panel and has scrolled downwards to the instances of article. The Layer info panel right shows some statistics of topic map layer yle - elava-arkisto - articles. The number of articles is close to 12067 (the layer contains some extra topics that are not articles).
