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Using Linked Data American Art Collaborative, October 3, 2016 David Newbury Lead Developer, Art Tracks Carnegie Museum of Art

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Using Linked DataAmerican Art Collaborative, October 3, 2016

David NewburyLead Developer, Art TracksCarnegie Museum of Art

Let's talk about provenance.

Why Linked Data?• Thesauri & Vocabularies• Reconciliation and Hydration• Making connections• Knowledge Representation

Carnegie Museum of Art• Vocabularies in our CMS• International Party Locater• Archives Site• Art Tracks

AAT Vocabulary in our CMS

Party lookups from ULANTechniques from AAT

International Party Locater

International Party Locater

Add new parties based on ULAN and VIAF records

Live Demo

CMOA Archives SiteOur first major Linked Data project.

CMOA Archives SiteFinding aids?Not that compelling.

CMOA Archives SiteObjects? Interesting.

CMOA Archives SitePeople and connections?Fascinating.

Live Demo

http://records.cmoa.org

Art Tracks

Linked Data for Museum Provenance

museum_provenance library

https://github.com/cmoa/museum_provenance

MIT License, standalone Ruby library. v. 0.1.1

ElysaA UI tool for museum professionals.

Live Demo

http://elysa-demo.museumprovenance.org

Acquisition Vocabulary

Why Linked Open Data?It's hard. It's confusing.

Is it necessary?

Three uses for Linked Data:

• Linking to authorities• Merging knowledge across institutions• Representing dense social and temporal networks

Linking to authoritiesAn easy sell...

...but doesn't require you to use linked data.

Merging knowledge across institutions

Merging knowledge across institutions

Representing dense social and temporal networks

Representing dense social and temporal networks

Representing dense social and temporal networks

Lessons LearnedThere are things that you can do with this that are much harder to do any other way.

BUT

• Linked Data is hard.• If you only want to do one thing with this data, don't do this.• The knowledge that we want to use, we don't have.• We need better tools.