Having Triplets – Holding Cultural Data as RDF
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Great hopes are cherished for the Semantic Web. It is intended to make linking data as easy as HTML makes linking Web documents. For the cultural heritage world seamless linking of related but independently curated datasets has long been a dream. This paper looks at the practical and theoretical issues involved in converting data to RDF so that it can become part of the Semantic Web. I propose a simple generic design for cultural heritage data, and discuss the options for including published heritage thesauri. Scaleability is a key requirement for curators of large collections, and this work uses the whole of a real archive (the National Monument Record of Scotland) rather than a pilot sample.
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