Automatic publication of library and museum data into the semantic web: the description of the ALIADA project

Automatic publication of library and museum data into the semantic web: the

description of the ALIADA project

Ádám HorváthHungarian National Museum

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Art Libraries Facing the Challenges of a Digital AgeBudapest, 2nd June, 2014

© 2014 Aliada Consortium Art Libraries Facing the Challenges of a Digital AgeÁdám Horváth – HNM / MFAB 2

Contents

http://aliada-project.eu

• 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


Situation


• 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


Problems


• These standards are not used outside of the museum and library domains

• The descriptions are provided on the Internet as documents, not as data


Document versus data
























Linked Open Data (LOD) (Semantic Web)


• 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)


Storing Linked Open Data


• RDF store

• SPARQL endpoint


Linked Open Data advantages


• 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


Usage of Linked Open Data


• Smart search

• Data enrichment

• Solving problems more easily

• Standards based on linked data


Semantic web applicatonsSemantic web applicatons



Smart search


• works showing location

• works showing concept

• works titled

• works created from


Data enrichment


• My own thesaurus– <skos:Concept

rdf:about="http://nektar.oszk.hu/resource/auth/kutya">

– <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>


Enrichment


• 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>


Solving problems more easily


• Yale Centre for British Art– Handling of frames

• Hungarian National Library– Showing the different edition of a certain

book


Standards based on linked data


• Library of Congress BIBFRAME

• Provenance standard










Linked Open Data are spreading


• 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)


The aim of ALIADA


• To break through the isolation of museum and library data

• To automate the publication of the museum and library data into the LOD cloud


The aim of ALIDA


• To be an ally of libraries and museums in cooperation

• To enrich the museum and library data with data from external sources


The aim of ALIDA


• 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

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Project overview


• ALIADA– Automatic publication under LInked DAta

Paradigm of library Data– It is an innovation project funded by

European Commission– 3 countries: Hungary, Italy, Spain


Project overview


• 2 library vendors– SCANBIT (Spain)– @CULT (Italy)

• 2 museums– ARTIUM (Spain)– Museum of Fine Arts, Bp (Hungary)

• 1 research agency– TECNALIA (Spain)


Project overview


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

© 2014 Aliada Consortium Art Libraries Facing the Challenges of a Digital AgeÁdám Horváth – HNM / MFAB

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


ALIADA architecture


Conversion

Linking

Publication

UserInterface

USER

LINKED OPENDATA CLOUD

DATASETSINFORMATION

DATASETPUBLICATION

INPUT COMMANDS

EXECUTIONFEEDBACK

ALIADA

Dublin Core


ALIADA input


• MARCXML

• LIDO

• DC


ALIADA record selection


• Highlighting

• Searching

• Filtering

• Search history


ALIADA conversion


• With the help of editable profiles


ALIADA linking


• Europeana Linked Open Data

• British National Bibliography

• Spanish National Library

• Freebase Visual Art

• DBpedia

• Hungarian National Library

• Library of Congress Subject Headings


ALIADA linking


• Lobid. Index of libraries and related organisations

• MARC Code Lists

• VIAF: Virtual International Authority File

• Open Library

• Geonames


ALIADA publishing


• ZIP file in RDF/XML format

• RDF store with SPARQL endpoint

• Different RDF formats (json, turtle, etc.) and HTML representations of them

• DataHub registration


ALIADA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest


• Specification

• Provides data (LIDO)

• Testing

• Social media diffusion

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