The Aliada project aims to enhance the accessibility of library and museum data by integrating it into the semantic web and automating its publication as linked open data. This initiative focuses on breaking the isolation of cultural data, making it machine-readable, and allowing data from various domains to interact. Funded by the European Commission, the project involves collaboration among institutions from Hungary, Italy, and Spain, and strives to maintain industry standards while being user-friendly for librarians and curators.

1. Automatic publication of library and
museum data into the semantic web: the
description of the ALIADA project
Ádám Horváth
Hungarian National Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Art Libraries Facing the Challenges of a Digital Age
Budapest, 2nd June, 2014

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Contents
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• Metadata accession
• How semantic web is built-up
• Usage of semantic web
• Aim of ALIDA
• Project overview
• The structure of ALIADA
• ALIADA and the Museum of Fine Arts,
Budapest

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Situation
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• Libraries and museums provide access
to the description of their assets
• The descriptions are very detailed and
accurate
• The descriptions are based and
standards: museum and library
standards

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Problems
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• These standards are not used outside
of the museum and library domains
• The descriptions are provided on the
Internet as documents, not as data

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Document versus data
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Document versus data
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Document versus data
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Document versus data
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Document versus data
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Document versus data
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Document versus data
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Document versus data
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Linked Open Data (LOD) (Semantic Web)
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• Series of RDF statements
– Subject predicate object
– The statement is based on URI-s
– Example
• Decameron was created by Boccaccio
• http://nektar.oszk.hu/data/manifestation/2804140
(Decameron)
• http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator (was created by )
• http://viaf.org/viaf/64002165 (Boccaccio)

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Storing Linked Open Data
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• RDF store
• SPARQL endpoint

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Linked Open Data advantages
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• It is machine readable
• The linked data is built on the current
Internet architecture
• The data can be easily connected
• The RDF is not domain specific. It is a
worldwide API to data
– Museums and libraries can step outside of
their domain, their data can interact with
the data of other domains

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Usage of Linked Open Data
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• Smart search
• Data enrichment
• Solving problems more easily
• Standards based on linked data

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Semantic web applicatonsSemantic web applicatons

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Smart search
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• works showing location
• works showing concept
• works titled
• works created from

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Data enrichment
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• My own thesaurus
– <skos:Concept
rdf:about="http://nektar.oszk.hu/resource/auth/kut
ya">
– <skos:prefLabel
xml:lang="hu">kutya</skos:prefLabel>
– An other thesaurus
• <skos:prefLabel xml:lang=„en">dog</skos:prefLabel>
• <skos:prefLabel xml:lang=„it">cane</skos:prefLabel>

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Enrichment
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• My own thesaurus after enrichment
• <skos:prefLabel
xml:lang="hu">kutya</skos:prefLabel>
• <skos:prefLabel
xml:lang=„en">dog</skos:prefLabel>
• <skos:prefLabel
xml:lang=„it">cane</skos:prefLabel>

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Solving problems more easily
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• Yale Centre for British Art
– Handling of frames
• Hungarian National Library
– Showing the different edition of a certain
book

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Standards based on linked data
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• Library of Congress BIBFRAME
• Provenance standard

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Standards based on linked data
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• Library of Congress BIBFRAME

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Standards based on linked data
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• Library of Congress BIBFRAME

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Linked Open Data are spreading
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• Datasets in the LOD cloude
– Union Catalog of Sweden (LIBRIS)
– National Library of Hungary
– Biblioteca Nacional de España
– Yale Centre of British Art
– Italian museums
• http://www.linkedopendata.it/datasets/musei
– British Museum
• http://collection.britishmuseum.org/
– Europeana (EDM)

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The aim of ALIADA
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• To break through the isolation of
museum and library data
• To automate the publication of the
museum and library data into the LOD
cloud

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The aim of ALIDA
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• To be an ally of libraries and museums
in cooperation
• To enrich the museum and library data
with data from external sources

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The aim of ALIDA
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• To be usable by librarians and curators
with minimal information technology
knowledge
• To be based on library and museum
standards (MARC and LIDO)
• It will be open source
• It will have multilingual interface
aliada-project.eu/community

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Project overview
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• ALIADA
– Automatic publication under LInked DAta
Paradigm of library Data
– It is an innovation project funded by
European Commission
– 3 countries: Hungary, Italy, Spain

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Project overview
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• 2 library vendors
– SCANBIT (Spain)
– @CULT (Italy)
• 2 museums
– ARTIUM (Spain)
– Museum of Fine Arts, Bp (Hungary)
• 1 research agency
– TECNALIA (Spain)

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Project overview
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• Duration
– November 2013 – October 2015 (2 years)

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INNOVATIVE SMEs
LINKED DATA CLOUD
http://lod-cloud.net/
 Library
Management
System (ILS)
 Museum
Collection
Management
System (MMS)
 Content
Management
System (CMS)
OBJECTS RICH METADATA CREATORS
(librarians, curators)
ALIADA BROWSERS
OTHER CULTURAL
AND HERITAGE
INSTITUTIONS

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ALIADA architecture
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Conversion
Linking
Publication
User
Interface
USER
LINKED OPEN
DATA CLOUD
DATASETS
INFORMATION
DATASET
PUBLICATION
INPUT
COMMANDS
EXECUTION
FEEDBACK
ALIADA
Dublin Core

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ALIADA input
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• MARCXML
• LIDO
• DC

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ALIADA record selection
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• Highlighting
• Searching
• Filtering
• Search history

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ALIADA conversion
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• With the help of editable profiles

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ALIADA linking
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• Europeana Linked Open Data
• British National Bibliography
• Spanish National Library
• Freebase Visual Art
• DBpedia
• Hungarian National Library
• Library of Congress Subject Headings

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ALIADA linking
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• Lobid. Index of libraries and related
organisations
• MARC Code Lists
• VIAF: Virtual International Authority
File
• Open Library
• Geonames

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ALIADA publishing
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• ZIP file in RDF/XML format
• RDF store with SPARQL endpoint
• Different RDF formats (json, turtle, etc.)
and HTML representations of them
• DataHub registration

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ALIADA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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• Specification
• Provides data (LIDO)
• Testing
• Social media diffusion
aliada-project.eu/community

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@aliadaproject