museums home of unlinked data - richard light - ukmw15 provocations
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BRIDGING GAPS, MAKING CONNECTIONS
UKMW15 MUSEUMS ON THE WEB
PROVOCATIONS
Museums: the home of unlinked dataRICHARD LIGHT, UKMW15
What stars do you see?
Get those stars organised …
Search for “identifying stars linked data”
The hell that is textual labelling
‘Winston Churchill’
‘Same string’=‘Same thing’ Simple!
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Winston_Churchill
http://dbpedia.org/resource/MS_Winston_Churchill
???
Rarity value: U.K. museum LD resources
British Museum
National Gallery
Wordsworth Trust
And they’re all silos …
British Museum own-brand URLs or (worse) text strings
How can we ‘bridge gaps, make connections’ with our data?
Pool our data: but e.g. Culture Grid is moribund
Publish independently, but in a compatible way
Share common authorities
CIDOC-CRM can be the ‘mortar’ in the ‘wall’
Structure (CRM)
Concept (text/URL)
What does CSV buy us?
Tate/MoMA CSV: where do I hang my enhancements?
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lynda-benglis-7290
Ouch !!
Ditch those one-off APIs (well, you have …)
Your collection as Linked Data: branding!!
http://bnb.data.bl.uk/id/resource/GB9143539http://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/Object/WTcoll/id/GRMDC.C144.9
http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/object/MCT3635
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lynda-benglis-7290
A vision of Linked Data suburbia …
Everyone’s doing it, modestly
BM still has the only hotel
Pelagios: co-operation is possible!
Shared resources: is it just Geonames (and Getty)?
Free Geo-referencing!!
Make existing records into Linked Data!
Let’s see some authorities being authoritative …
National Maritime Museum?
Imperial War Museum/National Army Museum?
Licensing: essential if you want to play the RES game
Resources for teachersMediated via the BBCHave to be Linked DataRequire an explicit
licence statementMASSIVE opportunity for
museums to share their content
Linked Data: web-scale foreign keys for the things we care about
It’s not about RDF! It’s not about SPARQL!! It’s not about inference!!!It’s about UNIQUE, PERSISTENT, DEREFERENCEABLE, SHARED URIs for the things in our world
Thank you!
Richard Light@richardofsussexhttp://light.demon.co.uk/wordpress/