Thesaurus-Based Search in Large Heterogeneous Collections
ISWC '08 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on The Semantic Web
Interweaving OAI-PMH data sources with the linked data cloud
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies
Interactive vocabulary alignment
TPDL'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theory and practice of digital libraries: research and advanced technology for digital libraries
Linking the kingdom: enriched access to a historiographical text
Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Knowledge capture
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Within the cultural heritage field, proprietary metadata and vocabularies are being transformed into public Linked Data. These efforts have mostly been at the level of large-scale aggregators such as Europeana where the original data is abstracted to a common format and schema. Although this approach ensures a level of consistency and interoperability, the richness of the original data is lost in the process. In this paper, we present a transparent and interactive methodology for ingesting, converting and linking cultural heritage metadata into Linked Data. The methodology is designed to maintain the richness and detail of the original metadata. We introduce the XMLRDF conversion tool and describe how it is integrated in the ClioPatria semantic web toolkit. The methodology and the tools have been validated by converting the Amsterdam Museum metadata to a Linked Data version. In this way, the Amsterdam Museum became the first ‘small' cultural heritage institution with a node in the Linked Data cloud.