Fwd: TGN is NOW Available as Linked Open Data

[Ethan Gruber]

In case you haven't heard, the Getty released the TGN yesterday, so it should be possible to programmatically match many places between Pleiades and the TGN.

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From: "Joan Cobb" <JC...@getty.edu>
Date: Aug 21, 2014 5:33 PM
Subject: TGN is NOW Available as Linked Open Data
To: <Voca...@getty.edu>
Cc:

Dear Colleagues,

 

We are very pleased to announce that we have reached the second major milestone in our Linked Open Data project.

 

The second of the four Getty Vocabularies, The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)®, has joined the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)â as Linked Open Data. Both datasets are now available at http://vocab.getty.edu under an Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC BY 1.0).

 

The official announcement was made this morning by Jim Cuno, the President and CEO of the Getty - http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/getty-thesaurus-of-geographic-names-released-as-linked-open-data/.

 

We encourage you to visit http://vocab.getty.edu. There you will find not only our SPARQL endpoint, but also links to our updated documentation and links for downloading the full datasets and more.

 

Over the next year, The Research Institute’s other two Getty Vocabularies - The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)® and The Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)® will also become available as Linked Open Data. For general information about our Linked Open Data project see http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/lod/.

 

As always, we welcome comments and input from the user community. If you find the Getty’s Linked Open Data useful in your own work, please share your experiences with us by emailing us at voca...@getty.edu.

 

With warm regards,

The Getty’s Linked Open Data Team

[Leif Isaksen]

I was just thinking this myself.

Ryan - is this a striaghtforward adaption for Pleaides+?

Cheers

L.

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[Leif Isaksen]

Great! It might be worth reaching out to them as well? Depending on
how much work is involved they might be willing to assist?

Cheers

L.

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Ryan Baumann <ryan.b...@duke.edu> wrote:
> I looked into this a little yesterday after I saw the announcement (to
> see if there were any existing TGN/Pleiades or TGN/GeoNames
> alignments), but I think it would be relatively straightforward.
> Though the question may be whether it's more impolite to crawl the
> entire TGN for offline comparison, or query the SPARQL endpoint for
> every Pleiades/GeoName resource. Offline comparison would also allow
> for string normalization like I now do in Pleiades+. I may take a
> deeper look next week and report back!
>
> -Ryan

>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Leif Isaksen <lei...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I was just thinking this myself.
>>
>> Ryan - is this a striaghtforward adaption for Pleaides+?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> L.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Ethan Gruber <ewg4...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Ethan Gruber]

I've been in contact with them quite a bit recently. Although the Getty vocabs don't link externally at present, they are interested in incorporating links to resources like Pleiades and nomisma.

Ethan

[Karl Grossner]

Listening in with interest...I may have misunderstood, but no scraping necessary - 2 flavors of complete dumps are available from here.

http://vocab.getty.edu/

Karl

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Karl Grossner
Digital Humanities Research Developer
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford,CA US
www.kgeographer.org

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