Automatic publication of library and museum data into the semantic web: the description of the ALIADA project
1. Automatic publication of library and
museum data into the semantic web: the
description of the ALIADA project
Ádám Horváth
Hungarian National Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Art Libraries Facing the Challenges of a Digital Age
Budapest, 2nd June, 2014
Dear Mr. Horvath,
Thanks, the links do work now. Nice work!
We matched our records to the LCSH in a different project (called "MACS") a while ago. The
result of the project was a database of corresponding entries in our SWD, the LCHS and
RAMEAU. So we did not solve that problem in our linked data project but simply used the
information already available. Unfortunately, the URIs are not included, but it was
possible to derive them from the IDs used (easy for LCSH, hard for RAMEAU).
I am not sure if these mappings are freely available, but if you are interested, I could
try to find out. A typical mapping looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Contents from database Work -->
...
<add>
<doc>
<field name="id">MACS0000001</field>
<field name="SWD">Schauspielkunst</field>
<field name="SWD_number">4129090-2</field>
<field name="RAMEAU">Art dramatique</field>
<field name="RAMEAU_number">FRBNF11930966X</field>
<field name="LCSH">Acting</field>
<field name="LCSH_number">sh 85000691</field>
</doc>
...
</add>
Would that be at all useful to you?
Best regards
Jan Hannemann
>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: HORVATH Adam [mailto:adam@oszk.hu]
>Gesendet: Montag, 10. Mai 2010 15:59
>An: Hannemann, Jan
>Cc: Hauser, Julia; Haffner, Alexander
>Betreff: Re: NSZL on the semantic web / DNB on the semantic web
>
>Dear Mr Hannemann,
>
>Thanks you for your reaction. The link should work now (I tried a
>minute ago).
>
>I studied your examples. You have very nice, detailed authority
>records. I like that you show the html representation in your
>catalogue.
>
>How did you manage to match your subject heading with the LCSH
>subject heading? What was the input for the matching? Can one have a
>file containing all the skosified LCSH subject heading, which is
>frely available?
>
>We plan to improve our bibliographic data with the bibo schema, to
>create a sitemap to our linked data and to do some frbrization based
>on our semantic data stored in Jena.
>
>If you can see any possible cooperation in the future please let us
>know.
>
>Best regards
>Adam Horvath
>
>
>
>
>
>Subject:NSZL on the semantic web / DNB on the semantic web
>Date sent:Mon, 10 May 2010 11:04:44 +0200
>From:"Hannemann, Jan" <[email_address]>
>To:<[email_address]>
>Copies to:"Hauser, Julia" <[email_address]>,
>"Haffner, Alexander" <[email_address]>
>
>> Dear Mr. Horvath,
>>
>> I am from the German National Library and have heard about your recent
>> publication of your bibliographic information as linked open data.
>> Please let me congratulate you on this important accomplishment!
>>
>> Incidentally, we have also just completed our first linked data
>> project. In this first step we have published large parts of our
>> authority files as linked data; a follow-up project is currently being
>> planned. Perhaps it will be possible to benefit from each others
>> efforts and experiences.
>>
>> At first glance, it seems that the projects are quite similar;
>> apprarently we have chosen different naming schemes for out URIs, but
>> that difference is cosmetic at best. Currently, out service only
>> offers the usual XML/RDF representation; MARC and other formats might
>> be added in the future. We also have content negotiation for the
>> RDF/XML and HTML representations of the data. The main difference is
>> apparently in the data modelling and ontologies used.
>>
>> By the way, some of the URLs in your slides don't seem to work, such
>> as http://nektar.oszk.hu/resource/auth/33589 (slide 17). The default
>> SPARQL queries return errors (HTTP Status 500 -
>> com.hp.hpl.jena.shared.JenaException: Exception during database
>> access).
>>
>> We would like to invite you to take a look at our service.
>> Unfortunately, the documentation (https://wiki.d-nb.de/display/LDS) is
>> available only in German at the moment.
>>
>> Here's a brief English overview of the features:
>>
>> - The services comprises authority file data about 1,8 million persons
>> (from Name Authority File PND), 160.000 subject headings (from Subject
>> Headings Authority File SWD) and about 1.3 million corporate bodies
>> (from Comporate Body Authority File GKD). - The data modelling has
>> been refined compared to an earlier prototype (March 2010). - We've
>> added additional links to external data sources, in particular from
>> our SWD to appropriate data at LCSH and RAMEAU. - The service is now
>> integrated into our web presence; a special test environment that we
>> used before is no longer needed.
>>
>> These examples illustrate our work:
>>
>> - The German author Bertolt Brecht (http://d-nb.info/gnd/118514768)
>> has the following XML/RDF representation:
>> http://d-nb.info/gnd/118514768/about - The Subject Heading for
>> "Führungskraft" ("Executive" or "Cadres (personnel)") is found here:
>> http://d-nb.info/gnd/4071497-4 - The associated XML/RDF representation
>> can be found here: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4071497-4/about
>>
>> The next step for us is planning a follow-up project that will improve
>> the technical infrastructure, develop automatic update mechanisms and
>> expand the data we represent.
>>
>> We are looking forward to your feedback.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jan Hannemann
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________
>>
>> Dr. Jan Hannemann
>> Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
>> Informationstechnik
>> Adickesallee 1
>> D-60322 Frankfurt am Main
>> Telefon: +49-69-1525-1769
>> Telefax: +49-69-1525-1799
>>
>>
>>
>
Dear Mr. Horvath,
Thanks, the links do work now. Nice work!
We matched our records to the LCSH in a different project (called "MACS") a while ago. The
result of the project was a database of corresponding entries in our SWD, the LCHS and
RAMEAU. So we did not solve that problem in our linked data project but simply used the
information already available. Unfortunately, the URIs are not included, but it was
possible to derive them from the IDs used (easy for LCSH, hard for RAMEAU).
I am not sure if these mappings are freely available, but if you are interested, I could
try to find out. A typical mapping looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Contents from database Work -->
...
<add>
<doc>
<field name="id">MACS0000001</field>
<field name="SWD">Schauspielkunst</field>
<field name="SWD_number">4129090-2</field>
<field name="RAMEAU">Art dramatique</field>
<field name="RAMEAU_number">FRBNF11930966X</field>
<field name="LCSH">Acting</field>
<field name="LCSH_number">sh 85000691</field>
</doc>
...
</add>
Would that be at all useful to you?
Best regards
Jan Hannemann
>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: HORVATH Adam [mailto:adam@oszk.hu]
>Gesendet: Montag, 10. Mai 2010 15:59
>An: Hannemann, Jan
>Cc: Hauser, Julia; Haffner, Alexander
>Betreff: Re: NSZL on the semantic web / DNB on the semantic web
>
>Dear Mr Hannemann,
>
>Thanks you for your reaction. The link should work now (I tried a
>minute ago).
>
>I studied your examples. You have very nice, detailed authority
>records. I like that you show the html representation in your
>catalogue.
>
>How did you manage to match your subject heading with the LCSH
>subject heading? What was the input for the matching? Can one have a
>file containing all the skosified LCSH subject heading, which is
>frely available?
>
>We plan to improve our bibliographic data with the bibo schema, to
>create a sitemap to our linked data and to do some frbrization based
>on our semantic data stored in Jena.
>
>If you can see any possible cooperation in the future please let us
>know.
>
>Best regards
>Adam Horvath
>
>
>
>
>
>Subject:NSZL on the semantic web / DNB on the semantic web
>Date sent:Mon, 10 May 2010 11:04:44 +0200
>From:"Hannemann, Jan" <[email_address]>
>To:<[email_address]>
>Copies to:"Hauser, Julia" <[email_address]>,
>"Haffner, Alexander" <[email_address]>
>
>> Dear Mr. Horvath,
>>
>> I am from the German National Library and have heard about your recent
>> publication of your bibliographic information as linked open data.
>> Please let me congratulate you on this important accomplishment!
>>
>> Incidentally, we have also just completed our first linked data
>> project. In this first step we have published large parts of our
>> authority files as linked data; a follow-up project is currently being
>> planned. Perhaps it will be possible to benefit from each others
>> efforts and experiences.
>>
>> At first glance, it seems that the projects are quite similar;
>> apprarently we have chosen different naming schemes for out URIs, but
>> that difference is cosmetic at best. Currently, out service only
>> offers the usual XML/RDF representation; MARC and other formats might
>> be added in the future. We also have content negotiation for the
>> RDF/XML and HTML representations of the data. The main difference is
>> apparently in the data modelling and ontologies used.
>>
>> By the way, some of the URLs in your slides don't seem to work, such
>> as http://nektar.oszk.hu/resource/auth/33589 (slide 17). The default
>> SPARQL queries return errors (HTTP Status 500 -
>> com.hp.hpl.jena.shared.JenaException: Exception during database
>> access).
>>
>> We would like to invite you to take a look at our service.
>> Unfortunately, the documentation (https://wiki.d-nb.de/display/LDS) is
>> available only in German at the moment.
>>
>> Here's a brief English overview of the features:
>>
>> - The services comprises authority file data about 1,8 million persons
>> (from Name Authority File PND), 160.000 subject headings (from Subject
>> Headings Authority File SWD) and about 1.3 million corporate bodies
>> (from Comporate Body Authority File GKD). - The data modelling has
>> been refined compared to an earlier prototype (March 2010). - We've
>> added additional links to external data sources, in particular from
>> our SWD to appropriate data at LCSH and RAMEAU. - The service is now
>> integrated into our web presence; a special test environment that we
>> used before is no longer needed.
>>
>> These examples illustrate our work:
>>
>> - The German author Bertolt Brecht (http://d-nb.info/gnd/118514768)
>> has the following XML/RDF representation:
>> http://d-nb.info/gnd/118514768/about - The Subject Heading for
>> "Führungskraft" ("Executive" or "Cadres (personnel)") is found here:
>> http://d-nb.info/gnd/4071497-4 - The associated XML/RDF representation
>> can be found here: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4071497-4/about
>>
>> The next step for us is planning a follow-up project that will improve
>> the technical infrastructure, develop automatic update mechanisms and
>> expand the data we represent.
>>
>> We are looking forward to your feedback.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jan Hannemann
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________
>>
>> Dr. Jan Hannemann
>> Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
>> Informationstechnik
>> Adickesallee 1
>> D-60322 Frankfurt am Main
>> Telefon: +49-69-1525-1769
>> Telefax: +49-69-1525-1799
>>
>>
>>
>