Abstract
Three major French cultural institutions—the French National Library (BnF), Radio France and the Philharmonie de Paris—have come together in order to develop shared methods to describe semantically their catalogs of music works and events. This process comprises the construction of knowledge graphs representing the data contained in these catalogs following a novel agreed upon ontology that extends CIDOC-CRM and FRBRoo, the linking of these graphs and their open publication on the web. A number of specialized tools that allow for the reproduction of this process are developed, as well as web applications for easy access and navigation through the data. The paper presents one of the main outcomes of this project—the DOREMUS knowledge graph, consisting of three linked datasets describing classical music works and their associated events (e.g., performances in concerts). This resource fills an important gap between library content description and music metadata. We present the DOREMUS pipeline for lifting and linking the data, the tools developed for these purposes, as well as a search application allowing to explore the data.
Highlights
The Linked Open Data (LOD) paradigm for data representation, sharing and publishing has been more and more appealing to the world of museums and libraries over the past years
We have presented the DOREMUS resource—a collection of linked RDF datasets representing the catalogs of music works of three major French cultural institutions
The construction of this resource implies the implementation of a processing pipeline that allows for the conversion of the original data to RDF following the DOREMUS ontology, the development, SKOS-ification and alignment of a number of music-specific vocabularies and the interlinking of the datasets, which results in the construction of a reference pivot graph of musical works shared by or unique to the three institutions
Summary
The Linked Open Data (LOD) paradigm for data representation, sharing and publishing has been more and more appealing to the world of museums and libraries over the past years. The LOD project and the semantic web in general offer technological means for data reuse, increased visibility and data sharing on the web, data federation and facilitated exchange of metadata by the creation of links across resources Attracted by these possibilities, many major actors from the library world, such as the Library of Congress (LOC) or the French National Library (BnF), have embraced semantic web technologies with the goal to open their archives and catalogs to the web. Specific tools for data conversion to RDF following the DOREMUS model have been developed This process results in the construction of several knowledge graphs about music works and events, which have been linked using a developed for this purpose data linking tool. An exploratory search engine is developed that allows to browse the knowledge graphs
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