Linking Things on the Web: A Pragmatic Examination of Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums

Toward sustainable publishing and querying of distributed Linked Data archives

Purpose This paper details a low-cost, low-maintenance publishing strategy aimed at unlocking the value of Linked Data collections held by libraries, archives and museums. Design/methodology/approach The shortcomings of commonly used Linked Data publishing approaches are identified, and the current lack of substantial collections of Linked Data exposed by libraries, archives and museums is cons...

Publishing Data from the Smithsonian American Art Museum as Linked Open Data

Museums around the world have built databases with metadata about millions of objects, the people who created them, and the entities they represent. This data is stored in proprietary databases and is not readily available for use. Recently, museums embraced the Semantic Web as a means to make this data available to the world, but the experience so far shows that publishing museum data to the L...

Change and stability in archives, libraries and museums: mapping professional experiences in Sweden

Introduction. One of the most prominent topics of professional and academic archives, libraries and museums related literature revolves around the questions of change and continuity of the institutions. The aim of the study is to find how professionals conceptualise factors that contribute to continuity and change at their institutions. Method. The analysis is based on a qualitative analysis of...

Managerial Approaches to Support Intellectual Property Rights in Museums

Some of the cultural works which are considered as cultural heritage, regardless of their antiquity and precedence, are simultaneously subject of the legal systems of intellectual property rights and cultural heritage law. This situation can lead to a conflict of interest between private ownership and public law which, in turn, may create many problems for the management of cultural heritage wh...

Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish your Metadata