Amy Ballmer has worked on the Avalanche Magazine Index (using WordPress) for several years and wants it to be available to the broader world of art history. Hoping linked open data (LOD) is a solution.
Shift from thinking about content as data
Artist Journal Index: Avalanche magazine; understudied magazine with underrrepresented artists
Europeana LOD video on Vimeo: vimeo.com/36752317
Alex Brey worked with British Museum’s LOD at a hackathon in Philly. Uses the language SPARQL, which he said is frustrating to use.
Google’s Guide to Incoporating Structured Data: developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/structured_data
Museum Data Exchange: oclc.org/research/activities/museumdata.html
Univ. MD using linked open data for projects using R language
Scholars have smaller data sets, the challenge of not being “big data” but still sharing with the broader world; LAWDI, Linked Ancient World Data Institute: NEH funded, scholars discussing ways that they can share their data
British Museum LOD, locations semantically linked together
What is linked open data? Data that is made available, as a downloadable file, online. Structured around RDF (resource description framework)
Getty vocabularies are authoritative and provide the framework for people to refer to a reliable identifier (e.g. Picasso)
Open Knowledge Foundation, based out of Norway: us.okfn.org/
Freebase, www.freebase.com/: good tool for linking datasets; Liam at MIT used it for a news aggregator
DB-Pedia: dbpedia.org/About
What could CAA do to support and promote projects like the Avalanche Magazine index? Pleiades is one portal for ancient world
Two ways to look at the use of LOD
Querying structured data
Teaching people how to use some of the tools for LOD
Cool Stuff Made with Humanities APIs
Difference between using LOD and APIs (structured data)?
John Resig: Automated corrections of data entries on museum websites, comparing Japanese woodblock prints, ukiyo-e.org/. Varied attributions. Working with MMA
Classical coins at American Numismatics Society using LOD
