Sharing Museum data

The Smithsonian is taking a major step in providing access to their collections beyond their walls.  Having had internal data sharing between the 30-odd Smithsonian institutions for years, they are now publishing that data in LOD format.  This will allow collaboration between other organizations and the public.

Technical references:

Data connection: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/lod/about/

References:

Slide show: http://www.slideshare.net/szeke/2013-0528eswcsaammp4ppsx

Technical paper: http://www.isi.edu/~szekely/contents/papers/2013/eswc-2013-saam.pdf

Blog postings: http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/making-sense-data-that-is-linked-and-open

http://blog.library.si.edu/tag/linked-open-data/

LOD format resources:

Primary web site: http://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkedData

Museum Community:  http://lodlam.net/

 

Further resources:

Paper in The Semantic Web: Semantics and Big Data
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7882, 2013, pp 593-607

Connecting the Smithsonian American Art Museum to the Linked Data Cloud

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-38288-8_40

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