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.
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