Fishing in the Data Ocean - TaiUC LOD Project (LODLAM 2017)
Channel: Taiwan Digitalarchives
Date: 2017-04-12

LOD-LAM Challenge 2017
The project, developed by Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures (ASCDC), aims to transform the Taiwan Digital Archives' Union Catalogue (TaiUC), which includes more than 5 million digitized materials from libraries, archives and museums (LAMs) across Taiwan, into the Web of Data.
We hope to recover the contextual information by seeking the most accurate and detailed properties and link with seven different external vocabularies during the data modeling. At the initial stage, 40 thousand metadata records of fish collections with open licensing are selected to demonstrate how Linked Open Data approach uncovers the past 2 hundred years of connections between Taiwan and the worldwide through travelers and their specimen collections.