Generating and Exploiting Semantically Enriched, Integrated, Linked and Open Museum Data

Abstract

AbstractThe work presented in this paper is engaging with and contributes to the implementation and evaluation of Semantic Web applications in the cultural Linked Open Data (LOD) domain. The main goal is the semantic integration, enrichment and interlinking of data that are generated through the documentation process of artworks and cultural heritage objects. This is accomplished by using state-of-the-art technologies and current standards of the Semantic Web (RDF, OWL, SPARQL), as well as widely accepted models and vocabularies relevant to the cultural domain (Dublin Core, SKOS, Europeana Data Model). A set of specialized tools such as KARMA and OpenRefine/RDF-extension is being used and evaluated in order to achieve the semantic integration of museum data from heterogeneous sources. Interlinking is achieved using tools such as Silk and OpenRefine/RDF-extension, discovering links (at the back-end) between disparate datasets and other external data sources such as DBpedia and Wikidata that enrich the source data. Finally, a front-end Web application is developed in order to exploit the semantically integrated and enriched museum data, and further interlink (and enrich) them (at application run-time), with the data sources of DBpedia and Europeana. The paper discusses engineering choices made for the evaluation of the proposed framework/pipeline.KeywordsSemantic data integrationSemantic enrichmentMuseum LOD