Wikidata:WikidataCon 2017/Submissions/Improving access to Culture Heritage: data.cervantesvirtual.com
This is an Open submission for WikidataCon 2017 that has not yet been reviewed by the members of the Program Committee.
- Submission no. 30
- Title of the submission
Improving access to Culture Heritage: data.cervantesvirtual.com
- Author(s) of the submission
Escobar Esteban, María Pilar; Candela Romero, Gustavo; Marco Such, Manuel; Rafael C. Carrasco
- E-mail address
gustavo.candela
cervantesvirtual.com
- Country of origin
Spain
- Affiliation, if any (organisation, company etc.)
- Type of session
- Lightning talk (10min, on non-technical topics)
- Length of session
10-15 minutes
- Ideal number of attendees
30-50
- Abstract
The last two decades have shown a huge interest in using Semantic Web technologies in Cultural Institutions. There are now a large number of Open Data projects such as Europeana, which aggregates millions of records. However, most of the effort to adopt Semantic Web principles has been spent in national libraries and most local libraries still store isolated data. Cultural information held in these local institutions is generally not available outside the library due to old-fashioned library systems.
To ensure that libraries can participate in the Semantic Web, they need to prepare their legacy metadata for use as linked open data. The catalogue of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (BVMC) contains more than 200,000 records which have been recently migrated to RDF triples which employ the RDA vocabulary to describe the entities, properties and relationships. RDA follows the concepts and terminology of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and the Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) promoted by the IFLA.
The gateway data.cervantesvirtual.com publishes high quality linked open data since: the dataset is available on the web; it is published as structured data; data are in a standard, non-proprietary format (RDF); it uses URIs to denote things; and the content has been included and links to other datasets such as Wikidata and Research and Education Space from BBC. Due to their open nature, these public data can be linked and reused for new applications created by external institutions.
Starting from scratch, the project is no longer a demo, but a rich source of lessons learnt in order to stimulate innovative types of projects. The project attempts to strike a delicate balance between produce documentation and metadata that can be reused by other initiatives, and actually developing discovery and metadata creation systems.
- What will attendees take away from this session?
If you are planning to publish and enrich your metadata as Linked Open Data this is your opportunity to see how a prototype can become a successful project in your institution. We will explain how we have created links to other repositories such as Wikidata and Research and Education Space from BBC in order to enrich our traditional catalogue by means of automatic procedures, as well as manual revision from different departments in the BVMC. Furthermore, if you want to use our metadata we will also explain how you can create your own applications and launch queries to our catalogue.
- Slides or further information
- https://www.slideshare.net/impactproject/applying-linked-open-data-to-a-digital-library-best-practices-and-lessons-learnt
- http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/blog/2017/06/26/sabes-usar-la-base-datos-wikidata/
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P2799
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P3976
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/BVMC_place_id
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