linking geospatial data - heritage & location geotemporal semantics

Geotemporal semantics

Putting time and space to good usein Dutch Heritage

Rein.vantveer@den.nlwww.erfgoedenlocatie.nl

The national context of DEN

• supports archives, museums and other heritage institutions to improve their digital strategies

• core mission: sharing knowledge of and experiences with ICT

• encourages institutions to invest in open technology,implement ICT-standards and use tools that contribute to sustainable information services

DEN is sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs and Science.

DEN FoundationDigital Heritage Netherlands

Intermediaries

Archives

X1 Data &Aggregation

AV

SitesApps

Museums

Project: Heritage & Location

Enrichment & semantics

Vocabularies & Ontologies

3 Applications

2 Semantics

Libraries Academic data

Monuments & Archaeology

Sources

Sites Site e-services Apps Sites

YEuropeana

External vocabs

External services

The Geo-semantic Marriage

Semantics Geospatial

SPARQL, Reasoning!

WFS filtering, Spatial Joins!

URI’s, multiple sources

Sturdy data

Generic interoperability?

Well-integrated WxS interfaces?

Graphs Features

Facetting, statistics Nice mapping tools

Heritage & Location GeoSPARQL-demo: http://erfgeo.nl/geosparql/geosparql-demo.html

Challenges of geotemporal semantics

1. What spatial rdf solution should we choose?

2. Is GeoJSON-LD the way to go?

Towards a geotemporal semantic infrastructurefor Dutch cultural historical data