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Linked Open Data for the Cultural Sector
1. Cultural Linked Open Data
2014-02-06
Lars Marius Garshol, larsga@bouvet.no, http://twitter.com/larsga
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2. The importance of data
⢠Most web sites are data-driven
â if you have the data, you can add functionality
â if you donât have the data, youâre stuck
⢠Example: Google Maps
â imagine you have the application, the server
farm, the scaling and monitoring, etc
â but you donât have the actual map data
â not only are you stuck, but creating the data is
much harder than making the service
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8. Possible users of cultural data
⢠Any kind of web store
â publishers
â streaming services
â ...
⢠Travel businesses
â public sector, hotels, tour organizers, event
organizers, ...
⢠Media
â newspapers, broadcasting, ...
⢠Lots of public sector uses
â education, ...
⢠Many things none of us canât imagine now
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11. Linked Open Data
⢠Movement to publish open data online
â in machine-readable form
â linked to other data sets
⢠Based on some key technologies
â URLs for identifiers
â RDF for data
⢠Gaining a lot of traction in the cultural sector
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BBC
Europeana
Smithsonian Institution
...
12. The technology
⢠Provides simple data representation
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graph model (RDF)
has ready-made formats (XML, text, JSON, ...)
standard query language (SPARQL)
lots of RDF databases available
⢠Allows anyone to refer to anything
â a museum can say explicitly that one object in
their collection has a specific relation to an object
in another collection
â liberation from the ID scheme confusion
⢠Can reuse terminology from other
authorities
â can also easily extend that terminology
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15. http://dbpedia.org/resource/Knut_Faldbakken
⢠Globally unique
â across all systems and organizations
⢠Distributed
â if you have a domain, you can make URIs
⢠Self-documenting
â just follow the link to find documentation
⢠Can be used anywhere
â anyone can point at anything
21. âDo they have Knut Faldbakken in here?â
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http://data.deichman.no/sparql
22. Yes, but not connected to anything ...
...can we do anything about that?
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23. Record linkage to the rescue
⢠Active research field
â dating back to the 1940s
⢠Can connect data
without common IDs
â measure similarity instead
⢠Tools exist, with
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value cleaning
statistical analysis
sophisticated comparators
fast search backends
⢠One example is Duke
â http://code.google.com/p/duke/
â Java and open source
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26. Conclusion
⢠Linked Open Data has tremendous
potential
â vastly easier reuse of data
â hugely empowering for consumers
â also opens new possibilities for data owners
⢠Growing use in cultural sector
â both internationally and in Norway
⢠To learn more
â http://www.slideshare.net/larsga/linked-opendata-14964163
â http://data.norge.no/veiledning
â http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/
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