Re: Linking to datasets from the Cultural heritage domain
Dear Monika, another work in progress is ArcheoInf (http://www.archeoinf.de/archeoinf/archeoinf-english). The project wants to merge primary data (and linked geoinformatic and bibliographic data) acquired in different archaeological excavations and surveys. We would like to offer linked open data but have to convince our partners first - to archaeologists, it seems to be quite a problem to share data, especially as long as excavations are still working and results not yet published. Michael already mentioned the MultimediaN project which I consider to be important as well. Thanks to all for collecting projects, this is helpful for us. Best wishes Karolin -- Dr. Karolin Bubke *Fachreferate: Geschichte, Archäologie, Kunstgeschichte, Klassische Philologie, Anglistik *Projekt ArcheoInf (http://www.archeoinf.de/) Universitätsbibliothek Bochum Raum 6/06 44 780 Bochum Tel.:0234/32-22998 Fax: 0234/32-14290 http://www.ub.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
Re: Linking to datasets from the Cultural heritage domain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Karolin, This is very useful information and of immediate use to me. Many thanks to all the others who replied to the original post as well. Cheers, Monika Dr. Karolin Bubke wrote: Dear Monika, another work in progress is ArcheoInf (http://www.archeoinf.de/archeoinf/archeoinf-english). The project wants to merge primary data (and linked geoinformatic and bibliographic data) acquired in different archaeological excavations and surveys. We would like to offer linked open data but have to convince our partners first - to archaeologists, it seems to be quite a problem to share data, especially as long as excavations are still working and results not yet published. Michael already mentioned the MultimediaN project which I consider to be important as well. Thanks to all for collecting projects, this is helpful for us. Best wishes Karolin - -- Dr Monika Solanki F27 Department of Computer Science University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH United Kingdom WebID: http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/ms491/foaf.rdf#monika Google Coordinates: 52.653791,-1.158414 Tel: +44 116 252 3828 Web: http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/ms491/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktEmmIACgkQef8v4/uRsiwM6QCgx/syVNCrqUBOAOQg3OkPv3D4 lLUAoIcI1RJVQkDU82D9ly3fwGai/uCR =cyMj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Linking to datasets from the Cultural heritage domain
Not sure anyone has mentioned Joe Padfield's work at the National Gallery. See bottom left of http://cima.ng-london.org.uk/ And the Raphael Project is moving to RDF and CIDOC-CRM: http://cima.ng-london.org.uk/documentation/ I also understand the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in general is moving to RDF as the preferred format for data representation for the projects it funds, but I can't find anything on the web to point at. But if you google Andrew W. Mellon Foundation RDF you will find quite a lot of activity. And if you want to include OAI data, then we have harvested much of the stuff (using OAI-PMH) and republished it as Linked Data at http://oai.rkbexplorer.com/ Cheers Hugh On 02/01/2010 11:48, Monika Solanki m.sola...@mcs.le.ac.uk wrote: Hello, Are there any open datasets available to link with from the domain of cultural heritage. Thanks, Monika
Re: Linking to datasets from the Cultural heritage domain
Monika, Are there any open datasets available to link with from the domain of cultural heritage. I'm not aware of any. That said, we are working into this direction [1], Joachim might be able to report on a recent event related to it [2] (German, sorry ;) and my best guess would be to see if the MultimedianNL chaps [3] have something handy. Cheers, Michael [1] http://sw-app.org/pub/vast09-chowder.pdf [2] http://www.swib09.de/ [3] http://e-culture.multimedian.nl/ -- Dr. Michael Hausenblas LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute NUIG - National University of Ireland, Galway Ireland, Europe Tel. +353 91 495730 http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ http://sw-app.org/about.html From: Monika Solanki m.sola...@mcs.le.ac.uk Reply-To: m.sola...@mcs.le.ac.uk Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:48:20 + To: Linked Data community public-lod@w3.org Subject: Linking to datasets from the Cultural heritage domain Resent-From: Linked Data community public-lod@w3.org Resent-Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:48:50 + Hello, Are there any open datasets available to link with from the domain of cultural heritage. Thanks, Monika -- Dr Monika Solanki F27 Department of Computer Science University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH United Kingdom Tel: +44 116 252 3828 Google: 52.653791,-1.158414 http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/ms491 Times Higher Education University of the Year 2008/09
Re: Linking to datasets from the Cultural heritage domain
In message c76504e1.b887%michael.hausenb...@deri.org, Michael Hausenblas michael.hausenb...@deri.org writes Monika, Are there any open datasets available to link with from the domain of cultural heritage. I'm not aware of any. That said, we are working into this direction [1], Joachim might be able to report on a recent event related to it [2] (German, sorry ;) and my best guess would be to see if the MultimedianNL chaps [3] have something handy. I think it's a work in progress. I'm hoping to arrange a meeting in London early this year, at which museum practitioners can get together and discuss any progress they have made, and the potential for adopting a common approach. I've made an attempt to publish the Wordsworth Trust collection as Linked Data [1], but it's nothing more than an experiment at present. Each collections object now has a unique persistent URI, but the data associated with it isn't very good Linked Data: hardly any URLs. (The only source I could use is Geonames.) I've implemented the 303 See Also strategy via a custom 404 error handler, and simply use XSLT transforms to convert the source data (which is all XML) into the desired formats. My conclusions from this exercise are that (a) we need a common ontology for the predicates we need to record, (b) the CIDOC CRM is suboptimal for this task, since we need the simplest information structure we can get away with, (c) there is a major requirement for (shared) URLs for the entities we want to link to our objects (people, places, events, ...), and a means of mapping to these URLs, starting from the textual information found in existing collections data and (d) if we can crack this problem we can deal with all of history, not just museum collections data. Richard [1] e.g. http://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/object/GRMDC.C104.2 responds to the Accept header to deliver results as RDF, XTM (Topic Maps) or HTML. The XTM needs attention. -- Richard Light
Re: Linking to datasets from the Cultural heritage domain
In message 48f213f31001020830y610babf5red04c474a96d0...@mail.gmail.com, Deborah MacPherson debm...@gmail.com writes Try the Metadata Architectural Contents of Europe project - http://portal.mace-project.eu/ Deborah, Does MACE have a Linked Data interface, e.g. a SPARQL end-point? If so, it's not immediately obvious from the web site. Richard Deborah MacPherson On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Monika Solanki m.sola...@mcs.le.ac.uk wrote: Hello, Are there any open datasets available to link with from the domain of cultural heritage. Thanks, Monika -- Dr Monika Solanki F27 Department of Computer Science University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH United Kingdom Tel: +44 116 252 3828 Google: 52.653791,-1.158414 http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/ms491 Times Higher Education University of the Year 2008/09 -- Deborah L. MacPherson CSI CCS, AIA Specifications and Research Cannon Design Projects Director, AccuracyAesthetics The content of this email may contain private and confidential information. Do not forward, copy, share, or otherwise distribute without explicit written permission from all correspondents. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.725 / Virus Database: 270.14.124/2596 - Release Date: 01/01/10 09:20:00 -- Richard Light
Re: Linking to datasets from the Cultural heritage domain
Michael and Richard, Many thanks for your reply. Richard Light wrote: In message c76504e1.b887%michael.hausenb...@deri.org, Michael Hausenblas michael.hausenb...@deri.org writes Monika, Are there any open datasets available to link with from the domain of cultural heritage. I'm not aware of any. That said, we are working into this direction [1], Joachim might be able to report on a recent event related to it [2] (German, sorry ;) and my best guess would be to see if the MultimedianNL chaps [3] have something handy. I think it's a work in progress. I'm hoping to arrange a meeting in London early this year, at which museum practitioners can get together and discuss any progress they have made, and the potential for adopting a common approach. That is great. Would it be an open event. I am not very far from London as was wondering if I could attend. I've made an attempt to publish the Wordsworth Trust collection as Linked Data [1], but it's nothing more than an experiment at present. Each collections object now has a unique persistent URI, but the data associated with it isn't very good Linked Data: hardly any URLs. (The only source I could use is Geonames.) I've implemented the 303 See Also strategy via a custom 404 error handler, and simply use XSLT transforms to convert the source data (which is all XML) into the desired formats. My conclusions from this exercise are that (a) we need a common ontology for the predicates we need to record, (b) the CIDOC CRM is suboptimal for this task, since we need the simplest information structure we can get away with, (c) there is a major requirement for (shared) URLs for the entities we want to link to our objects (people, places, events, ...), and a means of mapping to these URLs, starting from the textual information found in existing collections data and (d) if we can crack this problem we can deal with all of history, not just museum collections data. Agree with all the above as it is a bit of the struggle for me as well right now. I have also only been able to link to Geonames and DBpedia. Monika Richard [1] e.g. http://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/object/GRMDC.C104.2 responds to the Accept header to deliver results as RDF, XTM (Topic Maps) or HTML. The XTM needs attention. -- Dr Monika Solanki F27 Department of Computer Science University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH United Kingdom Tel: +44 116 252 3828 Google: 52.653791,-1.158414 http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/ms491 Times Higher Education University of the Year 2008/09
Re: Linking to datasets from the Cultural heritage domain
Dear Monika Start by going to the UNESCO web site, and search the Information and Communication portal, next try www.europeana.eu for European cultural heritage Other useful sites for getting information about semantic web access to cultural heritage are www.kb.nl and http://www.cs.vu.nl/STITCH/links.html. You may be interested to find out that 2010 is the UN International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, which also addresses cultural heritage. The best way to find links is through library projects aimed at digitization, providing open access or preservation of national archives etc. For libraries search useful links from the IFLA web site www.ifla.org (International Federation of Library Associations). Milton Ponson GSM: +297 747 8280 Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation PO Box 1154, Oranjestad Aruba, Dutch Caribbean www.rainbowwarriors.net Project Paradigm: A structured approach to bringing the tools for sustainable development to all stakeholders worldwide www.projectparadigm.info EarthForge: Creating ICT tools for NGOs worldwide for Project Paradigm www.earthforge.info, www.developmentforge.info MetaPortal: providing online access to web sites and repositories of data and information for sustainable development www.metaportal.info SemanticWebSoftware, part of NGO-Opensource to enable SW technologies in the Metaportal project www.semanticwebsoftware.info This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. --- On Sat, 1/2/10, Monika Solanki m.sola...@mcs.le.ac.uk wrote: From: Monika Solanki m.sola...@mcs.le.ac.uk Subject: Linking to datasets from the Cultural heritage domain To: public-lod@w3.org Date: Saturday, January 2, 2010, 11:48 AM Hello, Are there any open datasets available to link with from the domain of cultural heritage. Thanks, Monika -- Dr Monika Solanki F27 Department of Computer Science University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH United Kingdom Tel: +44 116 252 3828 Google: 52.653791,-1.158414 http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/people/ms491 Times Higher Education University of the Year 2008/09
