Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish Your Metadata

摘要

The cultural heritage sector has huge amounts of metadata about their collections. Much of this sits in isolation in institutional silos. To a limited extent, institutional metadata has been made available for other institutions to harvest as an aid to discovery, but this is largely replication from one silo to another. Sharing and linking live data is often seen as a dark art practised by IT researchers. Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums, by two long-standing researchers and practitioners in the field, serves as a primer for cultural heritage professionals. It helps avoid the hype of technology-driven research projects, understand the value of linked data and appreciate how it can be applied to this sector. In comparison with some other books on linked data which often present contrived and abstract examples, this book is written for digital humanities and uses real-world examples from cultural heritage institutions to illustrate concepts.