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GLAMorous Linked Data Dr. Barry Norton, Development Manager, ResearchSpace* The British Museum * supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation National Gallery of Art, Washington DC April 2014

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GLAMorous Linked Data

Dr. Barry Norton, Development Manager, ResearchSpace*

The British Museum

* supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

April 2014

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Agenda• Ten years… where’s the ‘Semantic Web’?

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• OK, but… isn’t this just about the Web?

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• If we give away our precious data, won’t people make untrue claims?

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Semantic Web?• 13 years since this article

• 13 years ago, a young PhD student is glamorised by meeting TimBL

• 8 years ago, teaching alongside Jim… to European PhD students

• 2 years ago teaching in Berkeley every Summer, switch to training BBC, Wiley, British Museum…

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Wait… what?

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… what?

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… what?

“40% decline in traffic when the structured data was broken”

BBC

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What changed?• Stopped trying to build Semantic Web as precursor

to people wanting to use it

• Starting putting data out there so people could incrementally build clever things

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Two datasets

http://collection.britishmuseum.org http://linkedbrainz.org

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Back to the Web

but…

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Back to the Web

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More on the Web!

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• This is (was?) the wrong picture

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Two large graphs

• Goo

Google Knowledge Graph disambiguates search entities and provides data

Wikidata disambiguates Wikipedia entities and provides data

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Is this just about the Web?• Can now include events

and people as Linked Data in email

• Import into (different) calendar

• Can announce music-related events in Linked Data and calendar

• Looking for richer model for music for schema.org

This is now about systems integration

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Richer models!

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rich enough model to talk about Yale’s Hadleigh Castle and relationship to ours

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Untrue claims?• For years a (naive) objection to Linked Data has

been:

• “If I publish my data and give my things identifiers (URIs), won’t people make untrue claims?”

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<http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/object/YCA62958> crm:P52_has_current_owner

<http://semanticweb.org/id/Barry_Norton>

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ResearchSpace• a reusable set of Linked Data-based components, making up

• a platform that allows researchers to make claims (additions and changes to GLAM data) -

• that preserves and aggregates canonical data across Museums (LAMs),

• attributes claims,

• records arguments based on

• provenanced data annotation,

• image annotation

• forum-based discussion with explicit annotation

• will allow inference over claims