Heritage vocabularies from EH, RCAHMS, RCAHMW available as Linked Open Data

[Doug Tudhope]

English Heritage, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales and and the University of South Wales are pleased to announce that cultural heritage thesauri and vocabularies are now freely available as Linked Open Data as a preliminary outcome of the SENESCHAL project at:  http://www.heritagedata.org. 

 

The vocabularies, which include concepts relating to monument types, archaeological objects, events and time periods and maritime craft are also available for download in SKOS format.

 

Background

These major heritage thesauri and vocabularies have been widely used as informal standards but until now have lacked the persistent Linked Open Data (LOD) URIs needed to allow them to act as vocabulary hubs for the Web of Data. 

 

The AHRC funded SENESCHAL project aims to make vocabularies available online as Semantic Web resources. The project begins with the current Heritage Data vocabularies and intends to make other vocabularies available.  

 

In the next phase, RESTful web services will be established to make the vocabulary resources accessible and searchable. This will include provision to allow users to suggest new terms. A series of case studies will explore use of these web services as part of indexing tools and widgets.

 

SENESCHAL is coordinated by the Hypermedia Research Unit at the University of South Wales. Project collaborators include English Heritage, RCAHMS, RCHAMW, Archaeology Data Service, the Bespoke Historic Environment Record User Group and Wessex Archaeology Ltd. 

 

For more information: http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/about-heritage-data/seneschal/ 

 

Comments and suggestions are very welcome via email or the heritagedata blog

Contact: ceri.b...@southwales.ac.uk

 

Vocabulary contacts

EH: Phil Carlisle Philip....@english-heritage.org.uk

RCAHMS: Peter McKeague Peter.M...@rcahms.gov.uk

RCAHMW: Dave Thomas david....@rcahmw.gov.uk

Professor Douglas Tudhope

Hypermedia Research Unit

University of South Wales

Pontypridd CF37 1DL

Wales, UK

Tel +44 (0) 1443-483609

Fax +44 (0) 1443-482715

http://hypermedia.research.southwales.ac.uk/kos/

[Kate Byrne]

Brilliant news! Keith gave the Hestia workshop a sneak preview yesterday in Southampton.

Really looking forward to using these vocabularies, and hoping this will help with a step-change in takeup of Linked Data technology in the cultural heritage world.

All best,

Kate

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[MAY, Keith]

Thanks Kate,

Just to note if anyone has a problem with the embedded link in Doug's email

Try the address

http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/

Best wishes all

Keith

Information Strategy Advisor

Capacity Building Team

Strategic Planning & Management Division

Heritage Protection Department

English Heritage

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[Kate Byrne]

Thanks Keith, I meant to say that in my message but hit 'send' too soon!
K

[Doug Tudhope]

Apologies for broken links in original posting (result of pasting in from Outlook which added in hidden email links to the URL).

 I've just posted a corrected version with plain text links - please use that version

Doug

[Leif Isaksen]

Brilliant! Great work guys :-)

All the best

Leif

[Guus Lange]

Hi Doug, Ceri, Keith and all
Great accomplishment indeed!
Wished we could have stayed close...

Now for the MultiLingual!!!

Hurrah and Cheers
Guus

2013/7/19 Leif Isaksen <lei...@googlemail.com>

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