1. Exploiting Vocabularies and
Linked Data: in practice
Kate Fernie, CARARE
Abbaye de Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines, PMR Maeyaert, CC-BY-SA

2. Background
CARARE has been working with heritage organisations
and archaeologists across Europe since 2010 offering
them support and practical assistance in sharing their
datasets with Europeana.
http://www.carare.eu
Network Advice Services Digital heritage

3. CARARE receives datasets for aggregation to Europeana
mainly exported from databases but some captured using
spreadsheets or XML editors. We develop tools to help
make it easier for people to share their data and improve
the quality.

4. Projects
Two recent projects gave us an
opportunity to develop new services which
exploit vocabularies and linked data:
1. Share 3D: Metadata capture
dashboard
2. Europeana Archaeology: Vocabulary
services for mapping and enrichment

5. How can we make it easy for
people to use vocabularies and
linked data?
Share3D focussed on 3D models, but the
challenge is the same for all content.
Market Cross, Glendalough, The Discovery Programme, CC-BY-NC-ND
https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2020741/object_HA_213

6. Fast, secure and easy to create
We all want to catalogue our content as easily
as possible!
Printed vocabularies and wordlists are great but
these days when you enter data into a system,
the system can help ease the process.
Extract from the Thesaurus of Monument Types,
Forum on Information Standards in Heritage, 2020
http://www.heritage-standards.org.uk/fish-vocabularies/

7. Share3D dashboard
incorporates:
● Getty’s Art and
Architecture
Thesaurus for
subject and
period concepts
https://share3d.eu/dashboard/
Demo

8. Demo
Share3D dashboard
produces:
● Metadata in
Europeana’s
EDM format
https://share3d.eu/dashboard/

9. Roman tombstone, Society of Antiquaries of London, INC-EDU
Most of the datasets CARARE receives
include terms from local wordlists in the
national language.
How can we exploit Linked Data for
these datasets?

10. Mapping vocabularies to Linked Data
Vocabularies can be mapped
using a simple spreadsheet.
It takes time
Can we make the process
easier for people to exploit
their mappings on their
datasets?
Native Term Lang Aat concept label Aat uid
sídlištní cs settlement (population
activity)
300410475
pohřbívání cs burials 300263485
výroba cs production (process) 300054713
těžba cs mining 300054710
kult cs rituals (events) 300065284
komunikace cs transportation 300055244
deponování cs storage 300056390

11. Extracting keywords
from a provided
dataset - Europeana
Archaeology
Vocabulary tool:
● Easy to use
mapping editor
● Mappings can be
imported and built
up over time
Demo
https://europeanaarchaeology.carare.eu/project-results/

12. Demo
Vocabulary tool produces:
● Mappings which can
be downloaded
● And used to enrich the
original dataset with
Linked Data
https://europeanaarchaeology.carare.eu/project-results/

13. Demo
The enriched records include
URLs pointing to the Getty
Vocabularies LOD which gives
access to:
○ Preferred concept labels in
multiple languages
○ Alternative labels in
multiple languages
○ Broader and narrower
concepts

14. Exploiting Linked Data
● Automatic semantic
enrichment
● Europeana de-references
AAT URLs to add concept
labels in all available
languages
-> enables multilingual
searches

15. How does it look in Europeana?
The concept labels are
displayed according to the
language you choose for
your browser
Users can browse by
concept
-> improves discovery

16. Conclusion
Using vocabularies and Linked Data can ease data entry and improve
consistency.
Using Linked Data can improve discovery of your content by helping users to
find connected items using their own language.
The Share3D dashboard and Europeana Archaeology Vocabulary service are
both freely available online. If you would like to know more please contact
CARARE.
Network Advice Services Digital heritage

17. carare.eu
@projectcarare
Any questions?
Kate Fernie, kate@carare.eu
Co-financed by the Connecting Europe
Facility of the European Union