Build Narratives, Connect Artifacts: Linked Open Data for Cultural Heritage

LINKED OPEN DATA FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
VLADIMIR ALEXIEV
VLADIMIR.ALEXIEV@ONTOTEXT.COM
2016-09-29
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Intro
1.1. GLAM vs Internet
1.2. Google NGrams: Phrases in Books
1.3. Google NGrams: Two Speci c Orgs
1.4. Google Trends: Search Popularity
1.5. How To Survive in the Internet Age?
1.6. Why Linked Open Data (LOD) is Important
2. GLAM Content Standards
2.1. Museum Content Standards
2.2. Archival Content Standards
2.3. Library Content Standards
3. GLAM Metadata Schemas
3.1. Seeing Standards (2)
3.2. XML Schemas
3.3. Museum Metadata: CDWA
3.4. Archive Metadata
3.5. Library Metadata: MARC
4. GLAM Ontologies
4.1. Europeana Data Model
4.2. CIDOC CRM
4.3. Web Annotation (Open Annotation, OA)
4.4. International Image Interop Framework (IIIF)
4.5. Library Ontologies
4.6. Archival Ontologies
5. GLAM LOD Datasets (LODLAM)
5.1. Wikidata
5.2. VIAF
5.3. Global Authority Control

1 INTRO
A bit about me: co-founder of Sirma Group Holding, Bulgaria's largest software group
and parent company of Ontotext
30y in IT: 8 at university, 22 in industry
Did plenty of project management, business analysis and data modeling, some big
projects too
Last 8 years focused on data modeling and integration
Last 6 years in paricular, focused on semantic data and semantic integration
I love to poke in other people's data and get in-depth. So there's a lot about data in
these slides
See : you can sort by type and keyword, full abstracts are available.
I've provided a few references below, but if a topic interests you, please search in
the publications
The shorter version has about 110 slides, so sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. Should
take us 1:20h
Ask questions at any time in the chat, I'll answer them all at the end
This longer version has 130 slides, including info about Library metadata and
ontologies
My publications

1.1 GLAM VS INTERNET
GLAM, CH, DH?
Cultural Heritage (CH): the sum of our non-economic heritage
Obvious implications to economically signi cant sectors, eg tourism
Some say it's the source of all creativity, would you agree?
Includes old and new (eg digitally-born), material and immaterial, tangible and
intangible, permanent and temporal (eg interactive installations)
Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums (GLAM): sisterhood of institutions that care
for our CH, each with its own perspective and priorities
Digital Humanities (DH): the use of computers in the humanities.
Eg some UK universities with DH programs: @KingsDH @UCLDH @DH_OU
@CamDigHum

1.2 GOOGLE NGRAMS: PHRASES IN BOOKS
Search for "library, museum" vs "Google, Facebook, Twitter" in books: the web sites are
negligible

1.3 GOOGLE NGRAMS: TWO SPECIFIC ORGS
Compare two speci c orgs: "Facebook" is more popular in recent books, compared to
"British Museum" over time

1.4 GOOGLE TRENDS: SEARCH POPULARITY
Web searches over the last 12 years: "Facebook, Google" are much more popular than
"library, museum"

1.5 HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE INTERNET AGE?
Since ancient times GLAMs have been the centers of knowledge and wisdom
Aren’t Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter and smart-phone apps becoming the
new centers of research and culture (or at least popular culture)?
Will GLAMs fall victims to teenagers with smartphones browsing Facebook? If the
library's attitude is "Come search in our OPAC" then certainly yes
How to preserve the role of GLAMs into the new millennium?
To survive, GLAMs must adopt the internet as their default modus operandi
Web 1.0: presentation
Web 2.0: interaction
Web 3.0 (semantic web): data linking, enriching/disambiguating text using NLP/IE
approaches

1.6 WHY LINKED OPEN DATA (LOD) IS IMPORTANT
Culture is naturally cross-institutional, cross-border, multilingual, and interlinked
LOD allows making connections between (and making sense of) the multitude of
digitized cultural artifacts available on the net
LOD enables large-scale Digital Humanities research, collaboration and aggregation;
technological renewal of CH institutions

2 GLAM CONTENT STANDARDS
GLAM data is complex and varied
Exception is the rule
Many metadata format variations
Data comes from a variety of systems
Thus professional organizations have found it useful to de ne content standards
Describe what data to capture (and sometimes how to go about it)
Before formalizing how to express it in machine-readable form
Examples are extremely useful for data modelers to decide how to map the data

2.1 MUSEUM CONTENT STANDARDS
: content standard for art, architecture, museumsCataloging Cultural Objects

2.1.1 CCO EXAMPLE: ARTWORK AND CREATOR RECORD

2.1.2 CCO EXAMPLE: HIERARCHICAL LINK BETWEEN 2 ARTWORKS

2.1.3 CCO EXAMPLE: CREATOR EXTENT
How to describe one aspect of the data

2.1.4 SPECTRUM
UK Museum Collections Management Standard
De nes procedures for museums to follow, and the attendant data
Covers 21 procedures: Pre-entry, Object entry, Loans in, Acquisition, Inventory
control, Location and movement control, Transport, Cataloguing, Object condition
checking and technical assessment, Conservation and collections care, Risk
management, Insurance and indemnity management, Valuation control, Audit, Rights
management, Use of collections, Object exit, Loans out, Loss and damage,
Deaccession and disposal, Retrospective documentation
Addresses accreditation

2.1.5 SPECTRUM EXAMPLE: OBJECT ENTRY

2.2 ARCHIVAL CONTENT STANDARDS
ISAD(G): archival materials
ISAAR(CPF): agents (corporations, people, families)
ISDF: functions (eg Secretary of some society)
ISDIAH: archival holding institutions
Image by D.Pitti, 2015

2.3 LIBRARY CONTENT STANDARDS
AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2)
International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD)
Resource Description and Access (RDA)
Extremely detailed and comprehensive (see RDA later). But sometimes pay more
attention where to put the commas than to:
Data sharing
Global availability of resources
Sharing the cataloging burden

2.3.1 FRBR, FRSAD, FRAD
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), Subject Authority Data
(FRSAD), Authority Data (FRAD) (J.Mitchell, M.Zeng, M.Zumer, 2011)

2.3.2 FRBR
Starts from user tasks ( nd, identify, select, obtain, explore). Introduces the important 4-
level WEMI model (relates to Uniform Titles):
Work: original or derived intellectual work (eg Don Quixote)
Expression: translation or edition (eg Don Quixote translation to English)
Manifestation: publisher's work (eg with illustrations, foreword by, compilation…).
ISBNs are here
Item: physical copy: libraries track loan/availability; famous copies (eg Lincoln's Bible);
manuscripts are singleton items

2.3.3 FRSAD
Anything can be subject (thema), referred to by various names/titles (nomen)

2.3.4 FRBR-LRM
FRBR-Library Reference Model (P.Riva, P.Le Bœuf, M.Žumer, Draft for World-Wide
Review 2016-02). Merges the previous standards

3 GLAM METADATA SCHEMAS
How many of the standards listed in
apply to your work? (by Jenn Riley, Associate Dean for Digital Initiatives at
McGill University Library)
Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata
Universe

3.2 XML SCHEMAS
Do you deal with XML? I bet you do
XML Schema (XSD): most widely used, but most unwieldy
RelaxNG (RNG): new generation schema language
RNG Compact (RNC): non-XML notation, most readable. Eg EAD3 is mastered in
RNC, then RNG and XSD produced
Schematron: express rules in XPath that can't be captured in XSD/RNG/RNC (eg
cross- eld validation)
Tools:
: patch the jing RNG validator to
emit errors like Schematron (SVRL with XPath error location)
: RNC tools and CH schemas in RNC. Emacs
with code highlighting and syntax checking ( ycheck)
https://github.com/EHRI/jing-trang/tree/EHRI-176
https://github.com/VladimirAlexiev/rnc

3.3 MUSEUM METADATA: CDWA
Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA): realization of CCO, 532
"categories" (data elements).

3.3.1 CDWA LITE
XML schema implementing part of CDWA. Moderate complexity, about 300 elements.
Display vs Indexing (structured) elements, eg for Dimension.

3.3.2 CONA SCHEMA
Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA): Getty museum data aggregation. Moderate
complexity, about 280 elements:

3.3.3 SPECTRUM XML
has 10 entities and 592 elds, of which 490 are Object
(artwork) elds. I am not aware of any systems producing this.
SPECTRUM Schema 4.0b

3.3.4 LIDO
Lightweight Information Describing Objects (LIDO). Evolved from CDWA, museumdat,
with inspiration from CIDOC CRM. (Images by R.Stein and A.Vitzthum, ATHENA
workshop, 2010)

3.3.5 LIDO SCHEMA
Complex schema, eg when referring to a related object, you can provide almost as
much detail as for the main object. Could leverage opportunities for linking more.
Display vs Indexing (structured) elements: inherited from CDWA

3.4 ARCHIVE METADATA
EAD: Encoded Archival Description. Describes archival materials (documentary units)
EAC/CPF: Encoded Archival Context: Corporations, Persons, Families
EAG: Encoded Archival Guide. Describes institutions

3.4.1 ARCHIVE METADATA PROBLEMS
Pay a lot of attention to presentation, not enough to linking (dif cult to "semanticize").
Emphasis on documents, not historic agents and events
EAG: So-called "controlled access points" are text, and typically not controlled at all
EAC: Many institutions don't consider EAC very valuable, and instead put person info
in EAD's element (example below from EADiva)
EAC: Related persons are names ("strings"), not links ("things")
EAC: Events include lots of info but only Date is separate eld (person names could be
tagged but often are not)
EAC: Family tree modeled as Outline, that's also used for other purposes (just
presentation)
bioghist
<bioghist>
  <head>Chronological Events</head>
  <chronlist>
    <chronitem>
      <date normal="19781028">October 28, 1978</date>
      <event>
        <persname normal="Wossname, Samuel">Sam Wossname</persname> succeeds
        <persname normal="Othername, John">John Othername</persname> as department head.
      </event>
    </chronitem>
    <chronitem>
      <date normal="19790315">March 15, 1979</date>
      <event>Departmental reorganization.</event>
    </chronitem>
  </chronlist>
</bioghist>

3.5 LIBRARY METADATA: MARC
MARC is 50 years old, unreadable, and doesn't accommodate new FRBR principles.
MARC-XML is not much better

3.5.1 MARC MUST DIE
A whole emotional subculture, based on a slogan by Roy Fielding, 2002.
: "MARC is dead" (is it really?)
: in-depth discussion wiki
marc-must-die.info
FutureLib
Facebook group
by Sally Chambers, ELAG 2011Presentation

4 GLAM ONTOLOGIES
Why do they call conversion to RDF "lifting" and back to some other format "lowering"?
RDF is a simple abstracted data model
Doesn't have nesting biases like XML: whether a sub-element is nested or referenced
by ID. Has less syntactic idiosyncrasies
(RDF/XML is awful, but there is Turtle for readability, or JSONLD for programmer
convenience)
The model is self-describing in a distributed way: if a class/property is looked up,
should return description and info

4.1 EUROPEANA DATA MODEL
Model used by the Europeana aggregator (53M objects), and adopted by Digital Public
Library of America (DPLA) Based on:
OAI ORE (Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse & Exchange): organizing object
metadata and digital representations (WebResources)
Dublin Core: descriptive metadata
SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System): conceptual objects (concepts,
agents, etc)
CIDOC-CRM inspired: events, some relations between objects

4.1.2 EDM ISSUES/CONSIDERATIONS
Criticized that it's not expressive enough. Eg can't capture the speci c contribution of
an artist to artwork
Complication: splits info about an object:
EDM External (form provider): edm:ProvidedCHO and ore:Aggregation
EDM Internal (at Europeana): edm:ProvidedCHO and 2 <ore:Aggregation,
ore:Proxy> pairs
Many providers use the minimal features and make mistakes; Europeana didn't do a
lot of validation
Old objects retro-converted from ESE are poor (only text), though some
enrichments added by Europeana
formed, to push this strategic point (2015-
2020)
Europeana Data Quality Committee
Evolving speci cation (since 2009)
Currently considering actual implementation of Events
Extensions for manuscripts, music, fashion, etc

4.2 CIDOC CRM
: comprehensive reference model used for history, historic events,
archaeology, museum data, etc by CIDOC (ICOM documentation committee).
Standardized as ISO 21127:2014, still evolving. About 85 classes, fundamental
branches: Persistent (endurant) vs Temporal (perdurant), Physical vs Conceptual
CIDOC CRM

4.2.1 CIDOC CRM PROPERTIES
Classes represent abstract things (eg crm:E24_Physical_Man-Made_Thing), speci c
things (eg Paintings, Coins) are accommodated with crm:P2_has_type. 135 props (plus
their inverses); prop hierarchy (see "- - -" at bottom):

4.2.2 CIDOC GRAPHICAL EXAMPLES
(or including Kindle)
(or including Kindle): essential to
understand how to apply CRM in various situations
Typical modeling construct short-cut (crm:P43_has_dimension) vs long-path (eg
crm:P39i_was_measured_by/crm:P40_observed_dimension), which allows more
details
Video Tutorial HTML version
Graphical Representation continuous HTML version

4.3 WEB ANNOTATION (OPEN ANNOTATION, OA)
: mark, annotate, relate any web resources, eg: Webpage and bookmark, Image
and region over it, Document and translation, Paragraph and commentary. Diagram of
from spec (using my rdfpuml)
W3C TR
Complete Example

4.4 INTERNATIONAL IMAGE INTEROP FRAMEWORK (IIIF)
Standard API for DeepZoom (hi-res) images. Supported by many servers and viewers.
http://iiif.io

4.4.1 IIIF PRESENTATION API
Based on OA and SharedCanvas. Strong attention to JSONLD representation
(convenient for developers). Allows to assemble manuscripts from pieces, present folios,
etc etc. See , eg :Rob Sanderson presentations IIIF and JSONLD

4.5 LIBRARY ONTOLOGIES
War of the Bibliographic Ontologies?
BIBO: used for a long time, pragmaic
FRBRer: pragmatic realization of FRBR, but little uptake (not rich enough?)
FRBRoo: based on CIDOC CRM, perhaps too complex
Fabio, Cito, Doco and friends: modern, includes new features (eg citation intent)
BibFrame: sponsored by LoC, but for modeling mistakes
RDAregistry.info: basic FRBR classes, numerous properties for all kinds of things.
Used for 100M records at TEL
SchemaBibEx ( ): steps on a clean model sponsored by the big 4
search engines (Google, MS Bing, Yahoo, Yandex.ru). Developed by OCLC. May end up
being used for 300M records at WorldCat.
soundly criticized
http://bib.schema.org

4.5.1 RDAREGISTRY
Resource Description and Access (RDA). Registry info is well organized

4.5.2 RDAREGISTRY PROPERTIES
Many props (306 for Work alone), for speci c purposes (eg "apellee" for court decisions,
"granting institution" for academic theses). Numeric prop names, but lexical (natural
language) also supported. Serves many semantic formats.

4.5.3 A TASTE OF FRBROO
Task Force: asked what to add to EDM to better t
FRBRoo.
EDM–FRBRoo Application Pro le
TF members developed a number of examples, eg on publications of "Don Quixote"
(T.Aalberg, V.Alexiev, J.Walkowska).
EDM variant:

4.5.3.1 A TASTE OF FRBROO
Simpler FRBRoo variant:

4.5.3.2 A TASTE OF FRBROO
More complex FRBRoo variant:

4.5.4 FRBR-INSPIRED
"FRBR, Before and After" by K.Coyle (ALA 2016) is an in-depth look at FRBR-inspired
models/realizations.
Chapter 10 describes the following ontologies: FRBRer, FRBRcore, FaBiO, <indecs>,
BIBFRAME, RDA in RDF, webFRBRer, FRBRoo
"Mistakes have been made", K.Coyle, SWIB 2015

4.5.5 BRITISH LIBRARY DATA MODEL
Pragmatic data model that reuses several ontologies, and adds own props

4.5.6 FIRST LIBRARY THAT RUNS ON RDF
Oslo Public Library ( , since 2014) uses Koha open source
software, RDF in the core, and /rdf2marc conversions. Pragmatic data model
that reuses several ontologies, and adds own props. Enables a number of agile apps, eg
search related books on Kiosk
http://data.deichman.no
marc2rdf

4.5.6.1 OSLO PUBLIC LIBRARY DATA
d_res:tnr_749919  rdf:type  bibo:Document , fabio:Manifestation ;
  dc:title  "About time" ;
  d:titleURLized  "about_time" ;
  fabio:hasSubtitle  "Einstein's unfinished revolution" ;
  ctag:tagged  d_keyword:imaginary , d_keyword:dilation , d_keyword:time ,
    d_keyword:tidsreiser , d_keyword:tidsdilatasjon ;
  foaf:depiction  <http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/96714‐M.jpg> ,
    <http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/96715‐M.jpg> ,
    <http://www.bokkilden.no/SamboWeb/servlet/VisBildeServlet?produktId=81081> ;
  owl:sameAs  <http://purl.org/NET/book/isbn/0140174613#book> ,
    <http://www4.wiwiss.fu‐berlin.de/bookmashup/books/0140174613> ;
  dc:language  lexvo:eng ;
  d:bibliofilID  "931138" ;
  dc:format  <http://data.deichman.no/format/Book> ;
  d:location_signature  "Dav" ;
  dc:publisher  d_org:penguin ;
  bibo:numPages  "316" ;
  d:physicalDescription  "fig." ;
  d:bibsubject  d_subject:einstein_albert , d_subject:tid_metafysikk ;
  fabio:isManifestationOf  d_work:x24918900_about_time ;
  d:signatureNote  "07x0619gq" ;
  d:bindingInfo  <http://data.deichman.no/bindingInfo/h> ;
  d:bsID  "0181541" ;
  dc:description  "Bibliografi: s. 293‐294"@no ;
  d:priceInfo  "Nkr 170.00" ;
  foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf  <http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/286461> ,
    <http://www.librarything.com/work/23493> ;
  dc:identifier  "749919" ;
  d:dewey  "115" , "530.11" ;
  d:location_dewey  "530.11" ;
  bibo:isbn  "9780140174618" , "0140174613" ;

4.6 ARCHIVAL ONTOLOGIES
3 attempts to represent EAD as RDF, but IMHO neither is very good.
Eg "The Semantic Mapping of Archival Metadata to the CIDOC CRM Ontology"
(Journal of Archival Organization, 9:174–207, 2011) proposes to represent the EAD
levels hierarchy (from Fonds down to Items) as ve parallel CRM hierarchies
Records in Context (RiC): new upcoming semantic standard by ICA
Addresses the scope of EAD, EAC, EAG in one framework. Inspired by national
standards, FRBR (FRBR-LRM), CIDOC CRM
(2015),
1.0 (Sep 2016): Document key components of archival description,
properties of each, relations between them
Ontology: after nalizing the Conceptual Model, Expressed in OWL, will include
semantic mapping to similar concepts developed by related communities
Progress report Mlist for comments
Conceptual Model

5 GLAM LOD DATASETS (LODLAM)
Some established thesauri and gazetteers as LOD, some are interconnected:
DBPedia; Wikidata, VIAF, FAST, ULAN; GeoNames, Pleiades, TGN; LCSH, AAT,
IconClass, Joconde, SVCN, Wordnet, etc.
Not shown: large collection LODs like: Europeana (EDM), British Museum (CIDOC
CRM), YCBA (CIDOC CRM), Rijksmuseum (EDM)
(Diagram based on work by M.Hildebrand)

5.1 WIKIDATA
Tons of info on everything, including GLAMs, artists, artworks, etc. Eg Frans Hals on
Reasonator

5.1.1 WIKIDATA GENEALOGY
Family tree of Barack Obama

5.1.2 SUM OF ALL PAINTINGS
. Data used for:Wikidata Project Sum of All Paintings
Works by painter across collections (catalogue raisonné). Eg Frans Hals

5.1.3 CROTOS
Excellent image search. Shows links to WD, Wikimedia Commons, original website. Eg
Frans Hals on Crotos

5.1.4 YOU CAN HELP TOO!
(9.9k of 140k). Important because <collection,
inventory number> is used to identify the painting. Eg (1k), (2)
Hunting for missing inventory numbers
US Getty Museum

5.1.5 LET'S FIX THE SECOND ONE
, like this:Find it on Getty's site add the info

5.1.6 HISTROPEDIA
Timelines of everyting. Eg paintings by Leonardo

5.2 VIAF
Virtual International Authority File: 20 national libraries, 10 other contributors
including Getty ULAN and Wikidata. Eg coreferencing cluster of Spinoza:

5.3 GLOBAL AUTHORITY CONTROL
201307 ,
Wikimania 2013
201501 (initiated by Ontotext)
201503 study for Europeana of
datasets including Person/Organization names. Conclusions:
The best datasets to use for name enrichment are VIAF and Wikidata
There are few name forms in common between the "library-tradition" datasets
(dominated by VIAF) and the "LOD-tradition datasets" (dominated by Wikidata)
VIAF has more name variations and permutations, Wikidata has more multilingual
names (translations)
VIAF is much bigger: 35M persons/orgs. Wikidata has 2.7M persons and maybe
1M orgs
Only 0.5M of Wikidata persons/orgs are coreferenced to VIAF, with maybe
another 0.5M coreferenced to other datasets, either VIAF-constituent (eg GND)
or non-constituent (eg RKDartists)
A lot can be gained by leveraging coreferencing across VIAF and Wikidata
Wikidata has great tools for crowd-sourced coreferencing
Authority Addicts: The New Frontier of Authority Control on Wikidata
Wikidata Project Authority Control
Name Data Sources for Semantic Enrichment

5.3.1 NAMES OF LUCAS CRANACH
in 7 LOD datasets (Wikidata: Freebase, DBpedia,
Yago; VIAF: ISNI, ULAN).
Analyzed records of Lucas Cranach

5.3.2 WIKIDATA COREFERENCING CAN ENLARGE VIAF

5.3.3 MIX-N-MATCH
A global Authority on everything: librarian's dream come true! is a
collaborative tool to create coreferences. 234 authorities, including Getty AAT, TGN,
ULAN; RKD artists, works; LoC Authorities; VIAF (not in M-n-M but on WD); BM
persons; BBC YourPaintings; Artsy, etc etc
Mix-n-Match

5.3.3.1 YOU CAN HELP WITH AUTHORITIES TOO!
Eg checking matches to Getty AAT. Single sign-on, a click per item. Easy!

6 LODLAM PROJECTS
GLAM and DH projects present a bewildering variety, eg
Publishing Vocabularies/Thesauri as LOD
Publishing Museum collections and National Bibliographies as LOD
Enrichment of GLAM metadata with relevant thesauri, semantic and faceted search
Study of artistic in uence over time and space
Literary traditions, parallel editions
Poetic repertories
Studying manuscripts, stematology (manuscript derivation)
Historiography
Studying charters, prosopography ("micro biographies"). "Prosopography is Greek for
Facebook", , 2015SNAP:DRGN project
Research functions and sometimes integrated into Virtual Research Environments

6.1 MELLON "SPACE" PROJECTS
The Andrew Mellon Foundation funds many projects in CH and DH, and a few software
projects, including:
CollectionSpace: museum collection management
ArchiveSpace: archive management
ResearchSpace: semantic integration based on CIDOC CRM, search, data & image
annotation, data basket, etc
ConservationSpace: line of business application for conservation specialists

6.2 RESEARCHSPACE
Executed by the British Museum. Ontotext developed the rst prototype (2010-2013).
Semantic Search

6.2.1 RESEARCHSPACE SEARCH
Powerful and precise search: Drawings by Rembrandt that are about Mammals

6.2.2 RESEARCHSPACE SEARCH: FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONS
First implementation experience of the CIDOC CRM Fundamental Relations approach

6.2.3 RESEARCHSPACE SEARCH: ONE FR (THING FROM PLACE)

6.2.4 RESEARCHSPACE SEARCH: IMPLEMENTATION
120 GraphDB rules, weaved using Literate Programming approach. Inference
dependencies between props (text=input, gray=intermediate, white=output)

6.2.5 RESEARCHSPACE SEARCH: NEW IMPLEMENTATION
(Not Ontotext work). (D.Oldman)Watch the video

6.2.6 RESEARCHSPACE DATA ANNOTATION

6.2.7 RESEARCHSPACE DATA ANNOTATION MODEL

6.2.10 IMAGE ANNOTATION ARCHITECTURE

6.3 BRITISH MUSEUM (BM) AND YCBA LOD
GraphDB runs the BM SPARQL endpoint. One of the biggest CH RDF collections
(917M triples)
As part of RS, developed mapping of BM data (2M objects) with BM, using CIDOC
CRM
This mapping was followed by the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA)
: very comprehensive but is monolithic and has imprecisions.
Includes the (in)famous diagram
Mapping Documentation

6.4 CONSERVATIONSPACE
Executed by a consortium led by US National Gallery of Art. Developed by Sirma ITT
(Ontotext sibling). Based on Ontotext GraphDB (semantic metadata), Alfresco
(document management), Smart Documents (Sirma product).

6.5 EUROPEANA LOD AND OAI PMH
Ontotext crated and hosted the Europeana SPARQL and OAI PMH services

6.5.1 EUROPEANA STATISTICS
Eg chart of newspapers (several millions) by year: can't do this using the Europeana API,
but is easy with SPARQL

6.6 EUROPEANA FOOD AND DRINK
Food & Drink content, semantically enriched (place and FD topic). :
open data, SPARQL endpoint, open source (Github). Uses GraphDB and ElasticSearch
enterprise connector
EFD Semantic App

6.6.1 TASTY BULGARIAN RECIPES
Eg 150 with beer, including pancakes!

6.6.2 WIDE GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE
Objects from the Roman Empire to Antarctica (Scott's expedition to the South Pole), and
everything in-between

6.6.3 EFD ENRICHMENT: FD GAZETTEER
Use Wikipedia Categories to extract a FD Gazetteer.
"Domain-speci c modeling: Towards a Food and Drink Gazetteer", Tagarev, A.; Tolosi,
L.; and Alexiev, V, LNCS 9398, p182-196, January 2016 ( )preprint

6.6.4 EFD ENRICHMENT: PRUNING FD CATEGORY TREE
. Alexiev, V. DBpedia meeting, February
2016.
Using DBPedia in Europeana Food and Drink

6.6.5 EFD ENRICHMENT: FRENCH
Selected French as second enrichment language after English, considering category
overlap (work by L.Tolosi, x-axis is cat level), available content, NLP capabilities

6.6.6 EFD PLACE ENRICHMENT
We used standard Ontotext Concept Enrichment Service, which is a mix of
DBpedia+Wikidata. But also had to add Geonames, to leverage the place hierarchy

6.6.7 EFD PLACE ENRICHMENT
Hierarchical semantic facet based on Geonames

6.6.8 EFD GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING: CLUSTERING
Once we have places, it's relatively easy to map them. We used the Cluster Mapper
library

6.6.9 EFD GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING: JITTERING
There are 9k objects marked "Bulgaria". We don't want all ags in the center of Bulgaria,
so we jitter them up

6.6.10 GLAMS WORKING WITH WIKIDATA
Why should GLAMs bother about Wikidata? Because it gives an excellent way to
connect and expose your collection data to a multilingual audience
:
Recommendation 1: For every Europeana project, considering the possible
bene ts of a Wikimedia component should be default behavior
Recommendation 7: Make Wikidata a central element of Europeana's "portal to
platform" strategy
Recommendation 8: Europeana should continue to invest in technology that
improves the interoperability between GLAMs and Wikimedia platforms
: easily add content about a colorful tradition
"blessing of the baskets" ("swiecenie koszyczek" or just "Święconka" in Polish). With
proper cats: when we merge them across languages (pl, en, de), we discover the
content is about Food and Drink, Easter, and a Polish tradition
Europeana Wikimedia Taskforce report
GLAMs Working with Wikidata

6.7 GETTY VOCABULARY PROGRAM LOD
GVP well-known and respected in GLAM. Dependencies: AAT-TGN-ULAN-CONA.
Center of LODLAM cloud? (Diagram by J.Cobb, 2014)GVP Training Materials

6.7.1 GVP LOD RELEASES
, , . Publicized in blog posts by J.Cuno, head of
the Getty Trust
AAT 2014-02 TGN 2014-08 ULAN 2015-03

6.7.2 ONTOTEXT SCOPE OF WORK
Semantic/ontology development:
Contributed to (latest standard on thesauri). Provided
implementation experience, suggestions and xes
Complete mapping speci cation
Help implement R2RML scripts working off Getty's Oracle database, contribution to
Perl implementation (RDB2RDF), R2RML extension (rrx:languageColumn)
Work with a wide External Reviewers group (people from OCLC, Europeana, ISO
25964 working group, etc)
GraphDB semantic repo, clustered for high-availability
Semantic application development (customized Forest user interface) and tech
consulting
SPARQL 1.1 compliant endpoint:
Comprehensive documentation (100 pages):
Sample queries (100), including charts, geographic queries, etc
Per-entity export les, explicit/total data dumps. Many formats: RDF, Turtle, NTriples,
JSON, JSON-LD
Help desk / support on twitter and google group (see home page)
Presentations, papers.
. Alexiev, V.; Lindenthal, J.; and Isaac, A. International Journal on Digital
Libraries, August 2015, Springer.
http://vocab.getty.edu/ontology
ISO 25964 ontology
http://vocab.getty.edu/sparql
http://vocab.getty.edu/doc
On the composition of ISO 25964 hierarchical relations (BTG,
BTP, BTI)

6.7.3 COMPLETE REPRESENTATION OF ALL GVP INFO
See , V.Alexiev, CIDOC 2014.
External Ontologies:
GVP LOD: Ontologies and Semantic Representation
Pre x Ontology Used for
bibo: Bibliography Ontology Sources
dc: Dublin Core Elements common
dct: Dublin Core Terms common
foaf: Friend of a Friend ontology Contributors
iso: ISO 25946 (latest on thesauri) iso:ThesaurusArray, BTG/BTP/BTI
owl: Web Ontology Language Basic RDF representation
prov: Provenance Ontology Revision history
rdf: Resource Description Framework Basic RDF representation
rdfs: RDF Schema Basic RDF representation
schema: Schema.org common, geo (TGN), bio (ULAN)
skos: Simple Knowledge Organization System Basis vocabulary representation
skosxl: SKOS Extension for Labels Rich labels
wgs: W3C World Geodetic Survey geo Geo (TGN)
xsd: XML Schema Datatypes Basic RDF representation

6.7.4 GVP SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION (1)

6.7.5 GVP SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION (2)

6.7.6 KEY VALUES (FLAGS) ARE IMPORTANT
Excel-driven Ontology Generation™. Key val can be mapped to Custom sub-class,
Custom (sub-)prop, Ontology Value (eg <term/kind/Abbreviation>)

6.7.7 ASSOCIATIVE RELATIONS ARE VALUABLE
More Excel-driven Ontology Generation™
Relations come in owl:inverseOf pairs (or owl:SymmetricProperty self-inverse)

6.7.8 INVOLVED INFERENCE OF HIERARCHICAL RELATIONS

6.7.9 COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTATION
. Alexiev, V.; Cobb, J.;
Garcia, G.; Harpring, P. Getty Research Institute, 3.2 edition, March 2015.
Getty Vocabularies Linked Open Data: Semantic Representation

6.7.10 SAMPLE QUERIES (100), INTEGRATED UI
Some charts, eg "Year Joined UN" (TGN), "Pope Reign Durations" (ULAN)

6.7.11 GVP VOCABS USAGE
Collected about 100 usages of the vocabs, many in Collection Management and Search.
Many described in , J.Cobb, 2014. EgGetty Vocabs: Why LOD? Why Now?
AAT used in : nds bibliographic and authority data: language
codes, geographic area codes, publication country codes, AACR2 abbreviations, LC
main entry, Cutter numbers, AAT concepts, etc
Cataloging Calculator

6.7.12 AAT IN EUROPEANA
type/subject/material elds
PartagePlus matched Art Nuveau candidate concepts to AAT; enriched labels
Europeana uses AAT to enrich

6.8 J.P.GETTY MUSEUM
Working with JPGM on publishing LOD. Considering CIDOC CRM, maybe also simpler
ontologies. Hoping to generate R2RML from instance examples like:

6.8.1 J.P.GETTY MUSEUM AND WIKIDATA
Discussing making data for Wikidata. WD has 480 Getty paintings, but the Museum has
180k artworks. WD query shown as image grid

6.9 AMERICAN ART COLLABORATIVE
: 14 US art museums committed to establishing a critical
mass of LOD on the semantic web. Consulting on CRM mapping.
American Art Collaborative
Work ongoing at , eg see
Eg possible mapping of "(sculpture) Cast after"
https://github.com/american-art NPG mapping issues

6.10 EUROPEAN HOLOCAUST RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
EHRI is a large-scale EU project that involves 23 Holocaust archives (Europe, Israel and
the US), DH and IT organizations.
In its rst phase (2011-2015) it aggregated archival descriptions and materials on a
large scale and built a Virtual Research Environment (portal) for Holocaust
researchers based on a graph database.
In its second phase (2015-2019), EHRI2 seeks to enhance the gathered materials
using semantic approaches: enrichment, coreferencing, interlinking. Semantic
integration involves Four of the 14 EHRI2 work packages and helps integrate
databases, free text, and metadata to interconnect historical entities (people,
organizations, places, historic events) and create networks.
"Semantic Archive Integration for Holocaust Research: the EHRI Research
Infrastructure", V.Alexiev, L.Brazzo, CIDOC Congress 2016.

6.10.1 EHRI: PERSON NETWORKS
Research question: how person networks in uenced chance of survival. Idea:
Rec 123456: rstName “John”, lastName “Smith”, gender Male, dateMarriage 1921-
01-05, additional names nameSpouseMaiden “Matienzo”, nameSpouse “Maria Smith”,
nameChild “Mike Smith”, nameSibling “Jack Jones”
We can create Person records for the people mentioned, make some likely inferences,
then try to match to other Person records in the database

6.10.2 EHRI: LARGE-SCALE PLACE MATCHING
Match USHMM places to Geonames, also achieving deduplication. A Geonames
matching pipeline in free text was also developed

6.10.3 EHRI: ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS
Analyze 2.5k OH Interviews:
ONTO: Place enrichment, Person name recognition
INRIA: word2vec experiments
guard Cosdist punishment Cosdist
guard Cosdist punishment Cosdist
guarding 0.593507 punishments 0.668144
sentry 0.512083 punish 0.601212
hlinka 0.496201 punishing 0.543213
gate 0.490032 beatings 0.527033
watching 0.484647 penalty 0.497262
ri e 0.484379 deserved 0.490157
lookout 0.482025 beaten 0.473870
patrol 0.477233 straf 0.473338
soldier 0.475982 offense 0.461230
guarded 0.474689 executing 0.459965
police 0.474291 merciless 0.455123
semantic "differencing" (interesting)
KGB ‐ Stalin + Hitler = SS

6.10.4 EHRI: DISCOVERING CAMPS, GHETTOS, STALAGS
And referencing to Geonames so we can get coordinates

6.11 OTHERS PROJECTS: WIKIARTHISTORY
Vienna University of Technology ( , )site paper
Art History networks from Wikipedia, through VIAF id
Time and nationality from ULAN

6.12 CHARTEX
NLP analysis of medieval Charters and Deeds. Funded by Digging Into Data cross-
country SSH funding initiative. Visualized with BRAT

6.13 NUMISMATICS
My good friend at the American Numismatic Society has developed a host
of amazing software that uses and produces LOD.
Ethan Gruber
Numishare: Data platform for coins/medals, 100k coin types
Nomisma: Shared authorities for numismatics
Kerameikos: Pottery LOD
EADitor: EAD Editor: based on XML & XForms, uses/produces LOD
xEAC: EAC/CPF Editor: based on XML & XForms, uses/produces LOD

6.13.1 COINS IN TIME AND SPACE
Spatiotemporal distribution of hoards containing a particular Roman Republican coin
type. Below: examples of this type in partner collections

6.13.2 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION
Distribution of the Roman denarius: blue dots for mints, heatmap of nds (a lot in the UK
Portable Antiquities Scheme)

6.13.3 NUMISHARE
Data platform with over 100k coin types. Powers custom collections, eg
: Medalic Art of the Great War
Art of
Devastation

6.13.4 NOMISMA
Shared authorities for numismatics. Eg a mint:

6.13.5 COINHOARDS
Greek coin data provided by
Geo mapping data provided by
Below: reference to the coin in an archival notebook (linked via OA)
CoinHoards.org
nomisma.org

6.13.6 STATISTICAL CHARTS
Denominations issued by Augustus, Tiberius… rendered in a chart using d3js

6.13.7 KERAMEIKOS: POTTERY LOD
editor. Based on XForms, leverages Getty and BM LODKerameikos Project

6.13.8 EADITOR AND XEAC
, . Based on XForms. Leverages the Getty thesauri and VIAF, imports data as
needed
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