LINKINGCULTURAL HERITAGE INFORMATION

Page Index

• What information to publish as linked data?
• What licence should there be?
• How to publish the linked data?
• Further readings

What information to publish as linked data?

• information about all aspects of collections and their related materials (exhibition catalogues, books, history files, learning units…);
• user generated content;
• terminological resources (object types; name authorities; places; organisations…) cooperating with partner in order to avoid duplication.

What licence should there be?

• Any publication of linked data must be accompanied by a licence which makes it clear what uses can be made of the data.
• The licence may be standard – like Creative Commons – or one created specifically by the publisher.

How to publish the linked data?

Format standards

Established the opportunity to use basic standards – like RDF, RDFS, and OWL – it is advised to use standard formats appropriate for the type of data being published, e.g.

• Web resources: Dublin Core;
• Persons: Friend of a Friend;
• Terminological resources: SKOS;
• Bibliographic resources: Bibliographic Ontology;
• Music: Music Ontology.

Consider using a cultural heritage specific format for linked data, like EDM, LIDO… In particular, Linked Heritage offers the possibility of using LIDO.

How to link the packages

• link to packages of a general nature like: DBpedia; GeoNames Semantic Web; national sources of terminology;
• link to known packages in the cultural heritage, e.g.: Library of Congress Subject Headings; VIAF The Virtual International Authority File and Dewey Decimal Classification;
• provide a SPARQL endpoint to the package.