Museums and the Web

An annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line.

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Sharing cultural heritage the linked open data way: why you should sign up

Johan Oomen and Lotte Belice Baltussen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, The Netherlands with Marieke van Erp, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Using LIDO as an Interoperability Tool for the Finnish Museums Sector: A Hands-on Approach to Aggregating Content from the Museum Collection Management Systems to the National Digital Library of Finland

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digital libraries
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interoperability
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linked data
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LIDO
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metadata aggregation
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The Finnish National Digital Library (NDL) project combines the digital resources of Finnish libraries, archives and museums to one comprehensive information retrieval (IR) portal called the Public Interface. The NDL Public Interface also contains necessary interfaces for linking the correct web-services to corresponding digital resources, such as image requests etc.

Type: 
Paper - in formal session

Sharing cultural heritage the linked open data way - everyone's invited

Keywords: 
linked data
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interoperability
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Sharing the Universe
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crowdsourcing
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business strategies
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cultural heritage information standards
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As galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAMS) are redefining their role as nodes in a wider network of content creators and providers, open innovation becomes key. GLAMS across the world are beginning to explore the added value of sharing data resources following the so-called linked open data (LOD) principles.

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Paper - in formal session

Your ticket to the Linked Data cloud : a hands-on approach for bringing your museum metadata into the Linked Data Cloud with the help of Google Refine

Keywords: 
linked data
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Google Refine
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metadata quality
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LCSH
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FreeYourMetadata.org is stimulating cataloguers, archivists and metadata managers to bring their metadata into the Linked Data cloud.

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Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches
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Authority Records, Future Computers and Other Unfinished Histories

Aaron Straup Cope, Stamen Design, USA

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What becomes the role for institutions and scholars charged with the study and safe-keeping of the past and the near-future when traditional methodologies like "authority records" are forced to compete with automated data collection, machine learning, the now-suddenly-practical reality of "big data" and the rise of broad communities of participation?

The breadth and reach of the Internet and the availability of alternative data sources, whether they are harvested programmatically or fashioned by amateur communities of interest, has created a world where both the conceptual and financial economics of traditional scholarship are rapidly being undermined. Further, in the absence of a way for non-experts to feel as though they can participate in the discourse outside of established venues and vocabularies, the opinions and assumed meritocracies of experts are increasingly being overlooked entirely.

What would it mean to change the role of digital preservation and scholarly interpretation from one where it looks and feels, to those the outside, like castle walls to be more like a rough guide composed of road signs and fence-posts? To consider a project whose goal is no longer to weave elaborate tapestries of the past facts but to produce textiles, and patterns, to be fashioned into reflections of the present?

Keywords: digital preservation, linked data, mashups, scholarships

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Building Linked Data For Cultural Information Resources In Japan

Tetsuro Kamura, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies; Hideaki Takeda, Ikki Ohmukai and Fumihiro Kato, The National Institute of Informatics; Toru Takahashi, ATR Media Information Science Laboratories; Hiroshi Ueda, ATR-Promotions.inc, JAPAN

http://lod.ac/

Abstract

Museum information in Japan is maintained distributedly and nonuniformly. This leads to difficulty in crossover searching for museum information. The LODAC (Linked Open Data for ACademia) project is building a prototype system (LODAC-Museum) to aggregate information across multiple sources. We identify and associate artists and works from different museum collections to provide integrated views for them. The key technology is Linked Data. All the aggregated data is transformed to the standard metadata schema and linked to each other via generated ID resources.

Keywords: Linked Data, Linked Open Data (LOD), Semantic Web, Metadata, RDF, Museum information

Building LOD for cultural information resources in Japan

Keywords: 
metadata
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Linked Open Data
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LOD
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linked data
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museum
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sematic web
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Museum information in Japan is maintained distributedly and nonuniformly. This leads to difficulty in crossover searching for museum information. The LODAC (Linked Open Data for ACademia) project is building a prototype system (LODAC-Museum) to aggregate information across multiple sources.

Type: 
Demonstration - show your project

Authority Records, Future Computers and Other Unfinished Histories

Keywords: 
digital preservation
Keywords: 
linked data
Keywords: 
mashups
Keywords: 
scholarship
Abstract: 

What becomes the role for institutions and scholars charged with the study and safe-keeping of the past and the near-future when traditional methodologies like "authority records" are forced to compete with automated data collection, machine learning, the now suddenly practical reality of "big data" and the rise of broad communities of participation?

Type: 
Paper - in formal session
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