On 04/04/2013 16:09, Mia wrote:
> In terms of practicalities, are there any use cases for other organisations
> testing out the BM's model? One potential use might be using it as a basis
> for linking to collections across various museum sites e.g. Wellcome links
> to similar objects on the Science Museum site which links to others on the
> British Museum site which in turn links out. To a large extent those
> object-specific links wouldn't be automagically machine-discoverable, so it
> would require both a willingness to link to other collections sites and
> some curatorial input - is that at all realistic given current resources?
I'm actively planning to adopt the BM model in as wholesale a manner as
possible, once I get my hands on it, for use in the Linked Data
publication framework for Modes data. This adoption will take the form
of an XSLT transform to convert Modes Object data to RDF. In principle
this will allow any Modes user to publish their collection as
BM-compatible Linked Data. However ...
* at present only a few Modes users are in a position to adopt this
framework (though I can guarantee that there will be at least one!)
* the compatibility will be at the structural level, i.e. the CRM
predicates will match. However, the subjects and objects will
probably not match up. To use my wall metaphor, the mortar will be
compatible but the bricks won't
* Modes doesn't do SPARQL end-points, so querying the data will have
to be done differently
Still, that would be a start. I'm looking at providing some sort of VoID
description to facilitate crawling of the whole resource, so it should
be possible for an aggregator to build a central database with all this
RDF in it. At which point we could start doing the "similar object"
type searches.
Richard
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*Richard Light*
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