Process to create an extension of Linked Art

[Claudia Roeck]

Hi everybody
I am wondering what the process is to create an extension of Linked Art. Is there a description somewhere?  Are there already official Linked Art extensions? 

Where in the process is the extension for performative arts?

@Clarisse Bardiot: How much time did it take you to get to this point?

It would be helpful to just have a rough idea of the process and the time it takes.

I am asking these questions to estimate whether it would be feasible for us to create a media art extension. I must admit, though, that we first need to map our digital artworks to Linked Art before we know whether it is necessary from our point of view. 

Many thanks in advance,

Claudia

[Robert Sanderson]

I think you answered your own question :)

First you need to try to map what you have to see if you need an extension at all. Then we (the community) can discuss whether there are existing features in the model that might not be as precise, but would be more interoperable with existing systems (and thus be easier to use, and more sustainable). 

If there are aspects that can't be modeled, then we would discuss how best to model them, and the least intervention needed in the model/api to enable them.

Then implementation, and when we get to a new version (1.1, one would imagine) whether there's sufficient agreement to include it in linked art directly, or whether it should remain an extension to be reassessed for the next version.  This pattern has worked extremely well in the IIIF community, and we've seen extensions progress from ideas to experiments to implementations and documentation to being merged into new versions of the specs. We've also seen ideas with implementations that very few organizations actually needed that remain extensions.

Rob

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[Claudia Roeck]

Dear Clarisse and Robert

Thank you very much for your answers. They help me to assess the effort and time it takes to map our artworks to Linked Art and to understand the process.

Best wishes

Claudia

 

Von: clarisse bardiot <clarisse...@univ-rennes2.fr>
Datum: Montag, 12. Mai 2025 um 19:27
An: Robert Sanderson <azar...@gmail.com>
Cc: Claudia Roeck <claudia...@gmail.com>, Linked Art <linke...@googlegroups.com>
Betreff: Re: [linked-art] Process to create an extension of Linked Art

 

Dear Claudia, dear all,

Thanks for your message and your interest!

In our case, it took approximately three months to reach the current stage, working with a small team of domain specialists. That said, the process was significantly accelerated by prior work: I had already conducted a fairly advanced state-of-the-art review in the months before, and we organized a dedicated study day with experts to test a number of modeling hypotheses in concrete use cases.

So the timeline is highly variable and really depends on how familiar the team is with the domain and with the Linked Art model itself. I’d say that the initial mapping and exploration phase is critical — as Rob pointed out — both to assess whether an extension is truly needed and to anchor the discussion in real-world examples.

Best regards

Clarisse

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