7. Rarity value: U.K. museum LD
resources
British Museum
National Gallery
Wordsworth Trust
8. And they’re all silos …
British Museum own-brand URLs or (worse) text strings
9. How can we ‘bridge gaps, make
connections’ with our data?
Pool our data: but e.g. Culture Grid is moribund
Publish independently, but in a compatible way
Share common authorities
10. CIDOC-CRM can be the ‘mortar’ in
the ‘wall’
Structure(CRM)
Concept (text/URL)
17. Shared resources: is it just
Geonames (and Getty)?
Free Geo-referencing!!
Make existing records into
Linked Data!
18. Let’s see some authorities being
authoritative …
National Maritime Museum?
Imperial War Museum/National Army Museum?
19. Licensing: essential if you want to
play the RES game
Resources for teachers
Mediated via the BBC
Have to be Linked Data
Require an explicit
licence statement
MASSIVE opportunity for
museums to share their
content
20. Linked Data: web-scale foreign
keys for the things we care about
It’s not about RDF!
It’s not about SPARQL!!
It’s not about inference!!!
It’s about UNIQUE, PERSISTENT,
DEREFERENCEABLE, SHARED
URIs for the things in our world