Presentation about the conversion of Naturalis data to RDF and investigating links to other collections. Slides were presented at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Friday 4th of April.

1. Birds on Prints
Chris Dijkshoorn & Lora Aroyo

2. Rijksmuseum Collection
Collection Statistics
- Prints ~700.000
- Digitised ~180.000
- Bird Prints ~1.200
Annotation Problems
- Focus on art-historical information
- Occasional lack of expertise
regarding subject matter

3. Rijksmuseum Collection
Collection Statistics
- Prints ~700.000
- Digitised ~180.000
- Bird Prints ~1.200
Annotation Problems
- Focus on art-historical information
- Occasional lack of expertise
regarding subject matter
Bird with Blue Head
Branch with
Red Leaves

4. SEALINCMedia Niche Sourcing
- Crowdsource annotation
process
- Find niche groups with
required expertise
Crowd
Cultural
Heritage
Collection
Annotations
Niche
Experts
Niche
Experts
Niche
Experts
Web of Data

5. Why Focus On Birds

6. Why Focus On Birds

7. Prints External Sources
techniquermacollection:
r-471949
Bairei_Kono
ico:birds
"Vogel bij rood blad"
contentClassification
maker
ico:naturebroader
kleurenhout
snede
aat:color_
woodcuts
closeMatch parent
Preferred
aat:
relief_prints
ulan: Kōno
Bairei
closeMatch ulan: Tsuji
Kakō
teacher_of
Rijksmuseum
Collection Data
External
Vocabularies
imageUrltitle

8. Prints External Sources
ico:birds ico:naturebroader
aat:color_
woodcuts
h parent
Preferred
aat:
relief_prints
ulan: Kōno
Bairei
h ulan: Tsuji
Kakō
teacher_of
External
Vocabularies

9. Prints External Sources
ico:birds ico:naturebroader
aat:color_
woodcuts
h parent
Preferred
aat:
relief_prints
ulan: Kōno
Bairei
h ulan: Tsuji
Kakō
teacher_of
External
Vocabularies
Daurian Redstart

10. Naturalis Data
Specimen Collection
- Songbirds 3.210 specimen
Print Collection
- Koekkoek 406 prints
Multiple Thesauri
- Nederlandse Soorten Register
- IOC World Bird List

11. Integration Problem Various Sources

12. IOC Bird List
Naturalis SpecimenNaturalis Prints
IOC Multilingual
Integration Problem Linked Data Solution
ioc:species-pyrrhula_pyrrhula
ioc:subspecies-pyrrhula_pyrrhula_cineracea
ioc:subspecies-pyrrhula_pyrrhula_pyrrhula
goudvink@nl
ウソ@ja
Eurasian Bullfinch@en
Koekkoek, M.A.
drawings (visual works)
txn:Male
RMNH.AVES.160193

13. IOC Bird List
Naturalis SpecimenNaturalis Prints
IOC Multilingual
Integration Problem Linked Data Solution
ioc:species-pyrrhula_pyrrhula
ioc:subspecies-pyrrhula_pyrrhula_cineracea
ioc:subspecies-pyrrhula_pyrrhula_pyrrhula
goudvink@nl
ウソ@ja
Eurasian Bullfinch@en
Koekkoek, M.A.
drawings (visual works)
txn:Male
RMNH.AVES.160193

14. IOC Bird List
Naturalis SpecimenNaturalis Prints
IOC Multilingual
Integration Problem Linked Data Solution
ioc:species-pyrrhula_pyrrhula
ioc:subspecies-pyrrhula_pyrrhula_cineracea
ioc:subspecies-pyrrhula_pyrrhula_pyrrhula
goudvink@nl
ウソ@ja
Eurasian Bullfinch@en
Koekkoek, M.A.
drawings (visual works)
txn:Male
RMNH.AVES.160193
Web of Data

15. Naturalis Collection Query Example

16. IOC World Bird List Conversion
Based on XML version 4.1
- Family 237
- Genus 2.274
- Species 10.668
- Subspecies 20.976
Added Multilingual Names
- Languages:
Zh, Da, Et, Fr, Hu, Ja, Pl, Ru, Es, En, Cs,
Nl, Fi, De, It, No, Pt, Sk and Sv
Uses TaxonConcept Ontology
Discussion About Modelling
- How to model relation species and
subspecies?
Family
Genus
txn:inFamily
Species
txn:inGenus
Subspecies
birds:inSpecies

17. IOC World Bird List Conversion Approach
Used Cliopatria xmlrdf package:
- Load XML
- Use structure XML to generate RDF
- Refine RDF using rewrite rules
Discussion Contact creators?
- Dereferenceable IRIs?
- Use ico: namespace?
Discussion Add missing Dutch
common names?

18. Naturalis Conversion Europeana Data Model
Distinction between
- Works
- Digital Representations
Aggregation links them
Approaches to modelling works
- Object-centric
- Event-centric
Aggregation
CH Object
hasView
aggregatedCHO

19. Koekoek Conversion Object -centric
edm:
aggregatedCHO
dc:
subject
nat:aggregation-
rmnh_aves_1601
93
nat:specimen-
rmnh_aves_1601
93
edm:hasView
birds:subspecies-
pyrrhula_pyrrhula_
pyrrhula
dcterms:
creator
ulan:500020715 "Koekkoek, M.A."
dc:
creator
dcterms:format
aat:300033973
"drawings
(visual works)"
dc:
format

20. Specimen Conversion Event-centric
edm:
occuredAt
dcterms:
type
nat:aggregation-
rmnh_aves_1601
93
nat:specimen-
rmnh_aves_1601
93
edm:hasView
edm:aggregatedCHO
txn:Specimen
nat:event_collection-
RMNH_AVES_160193
nat:
wasCollectedAt
edm:
happenedAt
"Europa, Rusland"
edm:
occuredAt
"1905"
nat:event_donation-
RMNH_AVES_160193
nat:
wasCollectedAt
"14/12/1905"
birds:subspecies-
pyrrhula_pyrrhula_
pyrrhula
txn:typeSpecimen
HasSod

21. Naturalis Collection Conversion Approach
Convert XLS to CSV
Prolog for Processing Data
- Load info rows CSV
- Parse Scientific Names using DCG
- Construct Identifiers from Scientific Names
Prolog for Creating RDF
- Assert Object
- Assert Web Resource
- Assert Aggregations
- Write Graphs
Discussion Who should convert?
- Static versus Volatile Data
- Script versus XSLT
- Cultural Heritage Institution versus University

22. techniquermacollection:
r-471949
Bairei_Kono
ico:birds
"Vogel bij rood blad"
contentClassification
maker
ico:naturebroader
kleurenhout
snede
aat:color_
woodcuts
closeMatch parent
Preferred
aat:
relief_prints
ulan: Kōno
Bairei
closeMatch ulan: Tsuji
Kakō
teacher_of
Rijksmuseum
Collection Data
External
Vocabularies
imageUrltitle
Bird Prints Missing Link

23. ico:birds ico:naturebroader
aat:color_
woodcuts
h parent
Preferred
aat:
relief_prints
ulan: Kōno
Bairei
h ulan: Tsuji
Kakō
teacher_of
External
Vocabularies
Bird Prints Missing Link

24. ico:birds ico:naturebroader
aat:color_
woodcuts
h parent
Preferred
aat:
relief_prints
ulan: Kōno
Bairei
h ulan: Tsuji
Kakō
teacher_of
External
Vocabularies
Bird Prints Missing Link
Daurian Redstart

25. Accurator Tagging Interface Version 2.0

26. Follow Up? Nederlands Soorten Register
Print
Kono Bairei

27. Follow Up Tagathon
Eat Pizza (or something better)
Meet bird enthusiasts
Gather annotations
!
!

28. Follow Up Wikipedia/Wikimedia
Wiki Theme: Nature
Bird Watching Event (in a museum?)
Proposed Time: end of June 2014

29. Follow Up? Rijksmuseum Site

30. Birds on Prints Wrap Up
Server http://ops.few.vu.nl/naturalis/
Git ec:/home/rasvaan/git/naturalis.git
Email c.r.dijkshoorn@vu.nl