aic linked open data panel museums and the web 2015
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Building a Digital Asset ManagementSystem For The Art Institute Of ChicagoSystem For The Art Institute Of Chicago
Stefano Cossu, Director of Application Services – The Art Institute of Chicago – [email protected] and The Web 2015 - Chicago, April 11th, 2015
Status Quo: A Centralized Architecture
One large application (CITI) to perform all collection management tasks
Hard to address growing, diverse needs Departmental databases disconnected from data flow One-way data exchange via file exports and SOAP API
Toward An Ecosystem
Mid TermClearly separate areas of operationKeep existing CMS as a front-endEnsure data preservation
Long TermGradually phase out isolated databasesStandardize data exchange format and protocol
Areas Of Operation
How Can Linked Data Help?
Web Ontology Language (OWL)
A “machine-readable philosophical system” Defines a Knowledge Organization System across
and beyond the Institution Vocabularies already exist for cataloging works of art We are looking for a more flexible model
How Do We Catalog This...
... Along With This?
Discovering Chained Relationships
SPARQL endpoint example:http://collection.britishart.yale.edu/sparql/
(check out Example Queries)
Sharing Knowledge
Do we need access to large catalogs of place and person names?
Yes.Do we want to maintain records and metadata for all the places
and people in the World?
No.Do we want to use our own cataloging schema, create our specific
names or add metadata to the existing ones?
Yes.
Sharing Knowledge
"Corvus corax ca" by Andreas Trepte - own picture, Canada Stewart Crossing, Yukon. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corvus_corax_ca.jpg#/media/File:Corvus_corax_ca.jpg
Visualizing And Discovering
Thank You
@industrievisive
"Corvus corax (NPS)" by National Park Service - http://www.nps.gov/brca/images/raven300.jpg. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corvus_corax_(NPS).jpg#/media/File:Corvus_corax_(NPS).jpg