Re: Cultural heritage domain (Museums and collections)

2010-12-10 Thread Antoine Isaac
Dear Daniel, Adding to the feedback you've already received... The vocabulary that Europeana is planning to use in its RDF/linked data activities is at [1]. You were given quite some pointers to museums, let me give some on libraries :-) -- we're going to see more and more interaction between

Re: Cultural heritage domain (Museums and collections)

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel Vila
First of all, I would like to thank everyone for the warm welcome to this list and I am glad to see how helpful the LOD people can be. I will go through all the interesting information and hints that have been presented here and try to define my proposal. I already knew some of the initiatives, bu

Re: Cultural heritage domain (Museums and collections)

2010-12-07 Thread Mia
As Hugh says, it's a hot topic at the moment. If you're in London, there's a meetup on December 16 (http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/33068521/Linking-Museums-III:-%27people%27-records), looking specifically at biography records in this case. It's part of an on-going series of meetups and conv

Re: Cultural heritage domain (Museums and collections)

2010-12-07 Thread Hugh Glaser
Quite a lot going on in this area. It is a hot topic in the ICOM community at the moment. There is a big EU project europeana.eu that is doing stuff for lots of cultural heritage, and will be going LD or at least RDF, I understand; they may well have an obvious ontology for the administrative si

Cultural heritage domain (Museums and collections)

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel Vila
Hi, I'm searching for a public ontology/vocabulary to represent knowledge from the cultural heritage domain, more especifically knowledge to describe cultural institutions (mainly museums). The idea is to generate and publish Linked open data about Museums in Spain (describing their tipology, who