Call for Participation in Exposing and Linking Cultural Heritage data Community Group
Posted on:The Exposing and Linking Cultural Heritage data Community Group has been launched:
The wealth of data about cultural heritage collections held within archives world-wide is of great interest for humanities research and education activities. Yet this data is too often hard to find, created in isolated silos and poorly documented. Large projects such as RES (https://bbcarchdev.github.io/res/) , HuNI (https://huni.net.au), Europeana (http://www.europeana.eu) and CLARIAH (http://www.clariah.nl/) express a clear need for making that data easier to find, link and consume. The mission of this community group is to discuss which standards are needed to facilitate this process. The aim is to produce recommendations for cultural heritage data exposure using the work of RES, HuNI, Europeana and CLARIAH as a starting point.
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This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2015-06-04 by Christophe Gueret. The following people supported its creation: Christophe Gueret, Rinke Hoekstra, Richard Zijdeman, Victor de Boer, Mo McRoberts, Olivier Thereaux. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.
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I’ve only just come across this but wanted to point the group to previous discussions going back several years on heritage technologist practitioner sites like http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933416/FrontPage http://lodlam.net/ http://museumscomputergroup.org.uk/ and http://mcn.edu/community/mcn-l/, not only because they should provide valuable information about the challenges and benefits of linked open cultural data, but also because participants in these groups should be part of this discussion.