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

JohanOomen — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:06:34 +0000

MW2012

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

Abstract

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

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

mvakkari — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:59:16 +0000

MW2012

Keywords:

digital libraries

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interoperability

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linked data

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LIDO

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metadata aggregation

Abstract:

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. The Finnish museum sector currently lacks unified cataloguing rules and the digital collection management systems (CMS) do not share a common standardized metadata format. Since the digital content will be aggregated from the museums’ CMS to the NDL metadata index a solution for handling heterogeneous metadata was needed. We have implemented a national set of instructions called the Finnish LIDO Schema based on LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects). The template has been tested with three collection management systems using different metadata formats and the aggregation of metadata via LIDO to the NDL has been successful. The heterogeneous metadata of different museums is now exported uniformly to the NDL Public Interface and indexed with a single normalization process. This method allows us to present the end-user with uniform data in common fields facilitating easy implementation of IR functionality and services with the possibility of also linking the museum object’s metadata with other digital resources thus allowing us to develop and provide linked data services with resources from three different sectors.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Site:

http://www.kdk.fi/en

Authors:

Mikael Vakkari

Riitta Autere

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

JohanOomen — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:50:39 +0000

MW2012

Published Paper:

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

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. In this presentation, we provide an overview of the practical uses and implications of using Linked Open Data through four projects currently running in the heritage domain. With the explosive growth of the LOD cloud of datasets, which has doubled in size every 10 months since 2007[1], more and more meaningful applications can be explored. This ranges from basic access to distributed information sources to more advanced scenarios supporting scholars in asking new research questions or posing old questions in new ways. GLAMS have much to offer:

- incredibly rich and structured data sets accumulated over many years by subject experts

- ability to reach out to audiences to both enrich datasets and to evaluation services

- long-standing expertise in meta-data management and (co-)curation

- authoritative knowledge on a wide range of subjects

Parallel to activities in the area of open government data, an increasing number of so-called ‘hackathons’, ‘culture hack days’ and ‘LOD-LAM[2] events’ are organized, aimed at promoting the uptake of the Linked Data Principles[3]. Unfortunately, these events mainly attract developers rather than policy makers or curators working at institutions. In this contribution, we describe four projects in which GLAMs collaborate closely with outside developers to show the wide potential of LOD.

1. In Agora[4], the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision collaborate with the Computer Science and History departments at the VU to integrate their collections and enrich them with historical information to facilitate a more comprehensive understanding of the historical dimension of objects in online heritage collections.

2. Europeana is a pan-European initiative that provides access to millions of objects as Linked Open Data. The Europeana Thought Lab[5] search interface shows how LOD principles can aid the search process. Europeana has been a strong supporter for the uptake of CC0; the "no rights reserved" in Creative Commons-licenses.

3. The Amsterdam Museum was the first museum in the Netherlands to convert its complete museum collection database to RDF. The resulting resource consists of more than 5 Million RDF triples describing over than 70.000 cultural heritage objects related to the city of Amsterdam[6]. We discuss several working examples that use this dataset, such as a mobile city guide.

4. Open Images[7] provides access to a large and growing collection of Creative Commons licensed archive material. The meta-data is converted to RDF, allowing the creation of rich semantic links between other datasets such as the the Amsterdam Museum dataset.

In discussing the lessons-learned within the above projects, we will be offer practical guidelines to start working with LOD, including key topics such as publishing and aligning datasets, developing new services and managing copyrights.

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Notes

[1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/01/the-conc...

[2] http://lod-lam.net/summit/2011/06/06/proposed-a-4-...

[3] http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/lod-badges/

[4] http://agora.cs.vu.nl/

[5] http://www.europeana.eu/portal/thought-lab.html

[6] http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/lod/am

[7] http://www.openimages.eu

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Connecting to Data

Site:

http://agora.cs.vu.nl/

Authors:

Johan Oomen

Marieke van Erp

Lotte Belice Baltussen

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

svhoolan — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:09:35 +0000

MW2012

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. With the help of videos, screencasts and tutorials, we are providing semantic web novices the necessary knowledge and tools to clean and reconcile their metadata with controlled vocabularies (such as LCSH, AAT, DDC, etc) which are already a part of the Linked Data cloud. This mini-workshop will provide a step-by-step overview of how free-text keywords can be easily reconciled with the LCSH by using the RDF extension for Google Refine. Once the reconciliation process is understood by participants, we will wrap up the workshop by showcasing some concrete examples of the added value of having one's metadata hooked up with the Linked Data cloud. Attending this workshop will allow museum technologists to immediately start using low barrier, free, and open source ways to join the Linked Data cloud and connect their collections with the millions of other data out there.

Type:

Mini-Workshop - teaches something or explores approaches

Mini-Workshop on bringing your museum metadata into the Linked Data Cloud with the help of Google Refine

Site:

http://www.freeyourmetadata.org

Authors:

Carlos Arroyo

Authority Records, Future Computers and Other Unfinished Histories

Aaron Cope — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 03:03:44 +0000

MW2011

Aaron Straup Cope, Stamen Design, USA

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?

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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Authority Records, Future Computers and Other Unfinished Histories

Building Linked Data For Cultural Information Resources In Japan

Tetsuro Kamura — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:29:59 +0000

MW2011

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

Program Item Reference:

Building LOD for cultural information resources in Japan

Tetsuro Kamura — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:21:14 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

Building Linked Data For Cultural Information Resources In Japan

Keywords:

metadata

Keywords:

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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Type:

Demonstration - show your project

Demonstrations III

Site:

http://lod.ac

Authors:

Tetsuro KAMURA

Hideaki TAKEDA

Ikki OHMUKAI

Fumihiro KATO

Toru TAKAHASHI

Hiroshi UEDA

Authority Records, Future Computers and Other Unfinished Histories

Aaron Cope — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:25:17 +0000

MW2011

Published Paper:

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?

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.

Type:

Paper - in formal session

Linked Data

Authors:

Aaron Cope