Commercial and cultural sectors: potential for data collaboration?

The main goals of the Linked Heritage project (sponsored by Europeana)are to provide qualified content to Europeana from the public and private sector. Tothis aim is created WP4 (Work Group 4) in which the organization EDItEUR takespart. The ’content’ are metadata for the cultural heritage. Starting by addressingthe issue of the “copyright gap”, which can involve metadata, the article notes thedifferences between metadata types developed by the private sector (ONIX for books)and those defined by the public one (FRBR, MARC, MARC21). The aim is to developintegration of both sectors into a shared references core. Exploring the common refer-ence framework requirement, the article emphasizes the new International StandardName Identifier (ISNI) potential, which allows to uniquely identify the subjects in-volved in the creative field. The future outlook can be further enhanced by involvingadditional metadata mapping that relates books, people, places, data, other booksand other references in a possible ’Linked Data’ form, within which priority shouldbe given in common public identifiers, related semantic mapping layers and sharedvocabularies.