Heritage vocabularies available as Linked Open Data
Some of the cultural heritage thesauri and vocabularies produced by English Heritage, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, the Archaeology Data Service and the University of South Wales are now freely available as Linked Open Data as a preliminary outcome of the SENESCHAL project at: http://www.heritagedata.org.
Linked Open Data is a way of publishing structured data that allows metadata to be connected and enriched, so that different representations of the same content can be found, and links made between related resources.
The heritage vocabularies, which include concepts relating to monument types, archaeological objects, events and time periods and maritime craft are also available for download in SKOS format.
Background
These major heritage thesauri and vocabularies have been widely used as informal standards but until now have lacked the persistent Linked Open Data (LOD) URIs needed to allow them to act as vocabulary hubs for the Web of Data.
The AHRC funded SENESCHAL project aims to make vocabularies available online as Semantic Web resources. The project begins with the current Heritage Data vocabularies and intends to make other vocabularies available.
In the next phase, RESTful web services will be established to make the vocabulary resources accessible and searchable. This will include provision to allow users to suggest new terms. A series of case studies will explore use of these web services as part of indexing tools and widgets.
SENESCHAL is coordinated by the Hypermedia Research Unit at the University of South Wales, together with the Archaeology Data Service as Co-Investigators. Project collaborators include English Heritage (now called Historic England), RCAHMS, RCHAMW, the Bespoke Historic Environment Record User Group and Wessex Archaeology Ltd.
For more information:
http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/about-heritage-data/seneschal/
Comments and suggestions are very welcome via email or the heritagedata blog
Contact: [email protected]
Vocabulary contacts
Historic England: Phil Carlisle [email protected]
RCAHMS: Peter McKeague [email protected]
RCAHMW: Dave Thomas [email protected]
Linked Open Data is a way of publishing structured data that allows metadata to be connected and enriched, so that different representations of the same content can be found, and links made between related resources.
The heritage vocabularies, which include concepts relating to monument types, archaeological objects, events and time periods and maritime craft are also available for download in SKOS format.
Background
These major heritage thesauri and vocabularies have been widely used as informal standards but until now have lacked the persistent Linked Open Data (LOD) URIs needed to allow them to act as vocabulary hubs for the Web of Data.
The AHRC funded SENESCHAL project aims to make vocabularies available online as Semantic Web resources. The project begins with the current Heritage Data vocabularies and intends to make other vocabularies available.
In the next phase, RESTful web services will be established to make the vocabulary resources accessible and searchable. This will include provision to allow users to suggest new terms. A series of case studies will explore use of these web services as part of indexing tools and widgets.
SENESCHAL is coordinated by the Hypermedia Research Unit at the University of South Wales, together with the Archaeology Data Service as Co-Investigators. Project collaborators include English Heritage (now called Historic England), RCAHMS, RCHAMW, the Bespoke Historic Environment Record User Group and Wessex Archaeology Ltd.
For more information:
http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/about-heritage-data/seneschal/
Comments and suggestions are very welcome via email or the heritagedata blog
Contact: [email protected]
Vocabulary contacts
Historic England: Phil Carlisle [email protected]
RCAHMS: Peter McKeague [email protected]
RCAHMW: Dave Thomas [email protected]
SENESCHAL
SENESCHAL is a one year Knowledge Exchange project based on enhanced vocabulary services that aims to make it significantly easier for vocabulary providers to make their vocabularies available as Linked Data and for users to index their data with uniquely identified (machine readable) controlled terminology that is semantically enriched and compatible with Linked Data. It builds on outcomes and tools from the previous AHRC funded STAR and STELLAR projects. Doug Tudhope is PI and Ceri Binding is the Research Fellow on the project.
Heritage Data
The Heritage Data website makes available all the cultural heritage thesauri and vocabularies formatted by SENESCHAL. Their web address is: http://www.heritagedata.org
List of FISH Terminologies available for LOD download:
List of FISH Terminologies available for LOD download:
LOD Cloud diagram.
