Aggregation of cultural heritage datasets through the Web of Data

Freire, Nuno; Meijers, Enno; Voorburg, René; Isaac, Antoine

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2018.09.012

Cited by 9 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 3 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Museums, archives and libraries have an extremely powerful resource in operation: Europeana, an aggregator for European cultural contents with a distributed structure that allows for the participation of a wide range of agents in a coordinated way (similar examples can be also found in other geographical contexts, such as the Digital Public Library of America for the United States of America, Trove in Australia or DigitalNZ in New Zealand). In essence, it is a web portal in which searches can be run in order to find digital copies of cultural heritage items, but it does not digitize nor store those digital files; rather, Europeana manages metadata harvested from different online databases (the ones belonging to the cultural organizations) and supplies efficient tools for searching, browsing and linking data [28]. Indeed, during recent years, Europeana has been adopting the "linked data" model, which permits moving the focus from the documents to the elements of heritage, places, people, etc.…”

Section: Repositories and Cultural Aggregatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Information Management for the Sustainable Conservation of Cultural Heritage

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Central to the entire discipline of heritage restoration and conservation is the concept of information management. Nevertheless, traditionally, conservation and restoration has been a poorly documented discipline, which has led not only to a lack of standardization and awareness about the processes carried out in the past, but also poses problems both when new restoration works are necessary and for the preventive conservation of the elements of heritage. This study sets out to propose a conceptual framework to explore the relationship between conservation of heritage and information management on the basis of case studies; in particular: a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) of a regional government concerning an endangered plant (wild grapevine) with an important potential for cultural and touristic uses in a wine-making region; an open data guide—the Digital Guide of Andalusian Cultural Heritage; a university repository connected to Europeana, which contains reports and outcomes of projects of geometric documentation of elements of heritage; a repository of an organization in charge of the protection and care of the heritage; and finally, two examples of the use of heritage building information models (HBIM) in complex monuments. After discussing the characteristics of each case, this paper concludes that, although the availability of information and tools is growing, further progress is still necessary concerning the interoperability, outreach and reuse of the different solutions.

show abstract

Section: Repositories and Cultural Aggregatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Information Management for the Sustainable Conservation of Cultural Heritage

et al. 2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…For this purpose, we have conducted a review of technologies that could be used for dataset descriptions. We focused on a review of several standard (Linked Data) vocabularies for describing datasets [25], and found vocabularies that are able to address requirements R1, R3 and R4. This work resulted in the creation of guidelines (Specifying a LOD dataset for aggregation by Europeana.…”

Section: Dataset Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aggregation of Linked Data in the Cultural Heritage Domain: A Case Study in the Europeana Network

Freire

Voorburg

Cornelissen³

et al. 2019

Information

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Online cultural heritage resources are widely available through digital libraries maintained by numerous organizations. In order to improve discoverability in cultural heritage, the typical approach is metadata aggregation, a method where centralized efforts such as Europeana improve the discoverability by collecting resource metadata. The redefinition of the traditional data models for cultural heritage resources into data models based on semantic technology has been a major activity of the cultural heritage community. Yet, linked data may bring new innovation opportunities for cultural heritage metadata aggregation. We present the outcomes of a case study that we conducted within the Europeana cultural heritage network. In this study, the National Library of The Netherlands contributed by providing the role of data provider, while the Dutch Digital Heritage Network contributed as an intermediary aggregator that aggregates datasets and provides them to Europeana, the central aggregator. We identified and analyzed the requirements for an aggregation solution for the linked data, guided by current aggregation practices of the Europeana network. These requirements guided the definition of a workflow that fulfils the same functional requirements as the existing one. The workflow was put into practice within this study and has led to the development of software applications for administrating datasets, crawling the web of data, harvesting linked data, data analysis and data integration. We present our analysis of the study outcomes and analyze the effort necessary, in terms of technology adoption, to establish a linked data approach, from the point of view of both data providers and aggregators. We also present the expertise requirements we identified for cultural heritage data analysts, as well as determining which supporting tools were required to be designed specifically for semantic data.

show abstract

“…MusicKG can be accessed by three means: a downloadable data dump, a Virtuoso faceted browser and a public SPARQL endpoint. All the information and links are available online 5 . MusicKG is oriented towards visual artworks, performances, performers and instruments.…”

Section: Sparql Query Examplesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the data model and vocabularies side, we can mention CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model [3], Cultural-ON [8], Sampo [6] and the Getty vocabularies 1 . With its own data model [7], Europeana tries to facilitate the discoverability of cultural resources by collecting the resources'metadata and by centralizing them [5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

MusicKG: Representations of Sound and Music in the Middle Ages as Linked Open Data

Eyharabide

Lully

Morel

2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The World Wide Web is one of the main ways of accessing knowledge in cultural heritage. Recently, several projects in digital humanities have emerged; however only a few are specialized in musicology. In this paper, we present MusicKG, a multilingual knowledge graph about medieval musicology and musical iconography. A specific ontology has been designed to integrate data from several iconographic and musicology databases. In addition, MusicKG is connected to the Linked Open Data cloud with a significant part of its classes, properties and instances being linked to Wikidata, Getty Vocabularies, MIMO, Iconclass and GeoNames. MusicKG is accessible and reusable by three means: a downloadable RDF dump, a Virtuoso faceted browser and a public SPARQL endpoint. Some representative SPARQL query examples are given to illustrate the scope of MusicKG and to show the potential impact on the research work in medieval musicology.

show abstract

Aggregation of cultural heritage datasets through the Web of Data

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

The Role of Information Management for the Sustainable Conservation of Cultural Heritage

The Role of Information Management for the Sustainable Conservation of Cultural Heritage

Aggregation of Linked Data in the Cultural Heritage Domain: A Case Study in the Europeana Network

MusicKG: Representations of Sound and Music in the Middle Ages as Linked Open Data

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About