Museums: the

home of unlinked

dataRICHARD LIGHT, UKMW15

What stars do you see?

Get those stars organised …

Search for “identifying stars linked

data”

The hell that is textual labelling

‘Winston Churchill’

‘Same string’=‘Same thing’ Simple!

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Winston_Churchill

http://dbpedia.org/resource/MS_Winston_Churchill

???

Rarity value: U.K. museum LD

resources

British Museum

National Gallery

Wordsworth Trust

And they’re all silos …

British Museum own-brand URLs or (worse) text strings

How can we ‘bridge gaps, make

connections’ with our data?

Pool our data: but e.g. Culture Grid is moribund

Publish independently, but in a compatible way

Share common authorities

CIDOC-CRM can be the ‘mortar’ in

the ‘wall’

Structure (CRM)

Concept (text/URL)

What does CSV buy us?

Tate/MoMA CSV: where do I hang

my enhancements?

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lynda-benglis-7290

Ouch !!

Ditch those one-off APIs (well, you

have …)

Your collection as Linked Data:

branding!!

http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/object/MCT3635

A vision of Linked Data suburbia …

Everyone’s doing it,

modestly

BM still has the only hotel

Pelagios: co-operation is possible!

Shared resources: is it just

Geonames (and Getty)?

Free Geo-referencing!!

Make existing records into

Linked Data!

Let’s see some authorities being

authoritative …

National Maritime Museum?

Imperial War Museum/National Army Museum?

Licensing: essential if you want to

play the RES game

Resources for teachers

Mediated via the BBC

Have to be Linked Data

Require an explicit

licence statement

MASSIVE opportunity for

museums to share their

content

Linked Data: web-scale foreign

keys for the things we care about

It’s not about RDF!

It’s not about SPARQL!!

It’s not about inference!!!

It’s about UNIQUE, PERSISTENT,

DEREFERENCEABLE, SHARED

URIs for the things in our world

Thank you!

Richard Light

@richardofsussex

http://light.demon.co.uk/wordpress/