RF6 Pecha Kucha: Putting Linked Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web
Channel: OpenRepos2012
Date: 2012-07-18

This talk was a Pecha Kucha from Session RF6 at Open Repositories 2012 (http://or2012.blogs.edina.ac.uk/).  

"Putting Linked Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web" - Julie Allinson, University of York, United Kingdom

This presentation will be a whistlestop tour through the OpenART project and how we went from a set of spreadsheets to linked open data. OpenART, a short JISC-funded discovery project, was a partnership between the University of York, the Tate and Acuity Unlimited, with a remit to will design and expose linked open data for an important research dataset entitled "The London Art World 1660-1735", created as part of the AHRC funded Court, Country, City: British Art 1660 -- 1735 project. The presentation will describe how we modelled the data, built an ontology to richly describe the data and finally how we delivered this as linked data using our Fedora Commons Digital Library. It will also provide some thoughts about the issues and challenges which linked data brings and how we might move forward with linked data and semantic technologies.