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- 1. Museums: the home of unlinked data RICHARD LIGHT, UKMW15
- 2. What stars do you see?
- 3. Get those stars organised …
- 4. Search for “identifying stars linked data”
- 5. The hell that is textual labelling ‘Winston Churchill’
- 6. ‘Same string’=‘Same thing’ Simple! http://dbpedia.org/resource/Winston_Churchill http://dbpedia.org/resource/MS_Winston_Churchill ???
- 7. Rarity value: U.K. museum LD resources British Museum National Gallery Wordsworth Trust
- 8. And they’re all silos … British Museum own-brand URLs or (worse) text strings
- 9. 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
- 10. CIDOC-CRM can be the ‘mortar’ in the ‘wall’ Structure(CRM) Concept (text/URL)
- 11. What does CSV buy us?
- 12. Tate/MoMA CSV: where do I hang my enhancements? http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lynda-benglis-7290 Ouch !!
- 13. Ditch those one-off APIs (well, you have …)
- 14. Your collection as Linked Data: branding!! http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/object/MCT3635
- 15. A vision of Linked Data suburbia … Everyone’s doing it, modestly BM still has the only hotel
- 16. Pelagios: co-operation is possible!
- 17. Shared resources: is it just Geonames (and Getty)? Free Geo-referencing!! Make existing records into Linked Data!
- 18. Let’s see some authorities being authoritative … National Maritime Museum? Imperial War Museum/National Army Museum?
- 19. 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
- 20. 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