BRIDGING GAPS, MAKING CONNECTIONS

UKMW15 MUSEUMS ON THE WEB

PROVOCATIONS

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://bnb.data.bl.uk/id/resource/GB9143539http://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/Object/WTcoll/id/GRMDC.C144.9

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

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

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 teachersMediated via the BBCHave to be Linked DataRequire an explicit

licence statementMASSIVE 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@richardofsussexhttp://light.demon.co.uk/wordpress/