Richard, a big thumbs up for Linked Data principles.
Just a caution though that, at the Linked Data level, you're not actually nominating your non-URI IDs as identifiers (only labels).
Compare below your resource versus one in the British Museum collection (for which there's a new HTML UI and SPARQL enpoint at collection.britishmuseum.org).
Sorry everyone for the techy stuff below - feel free to skip.
Compare:
$ curl -sLH "Accept:application/rdf+xml" http://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/Object/WTcoll/id/GRMDC.C104.4 | ./apache-jena-2.11.0/bin/rdfxml | grep '"GRMDC'
<http://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/Object/WTcoll/id/GRMDC.C104.4> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label> "GRMDC.C104.4" .
You use a little of the CRM ontology in your descriptions, but might consider also crm:P1_is_identified_by.
See, for example:
$ curl -sLH "Accept:text/turtle" http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/object/EOC3130 | grep 'P1_is_identified_by'
crm:P1_is_identified_by <http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/object/EOC3130/codexid> , <http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/object/EOC3130/regno> ;
Whereby:
$ curl -sLH "Accept:text/turtle" http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/object/EOC3130/regno
<http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/object/EOC3130/regno> a crm:E42_Identifier ;
rdfs:label "Oc1869,1005.1" ;
crm:P2_has_type <http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/thesauri/identifier/regno> .
And similar for other types of British Museum IDs.
(Note also that you don't simply refuse to content-negotiate for Turtle, hence the Jena parsing, but instead go into an infinite redirect loop).
Barry
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Sent: 28 October 2013 15:45
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Subject: Re: [MCG] Collections on-gallery & on-line?
Mike,
Linked Data publication of a collection can yield this as a handy by-product. Each object has a unique, persistent identifier, which "dereferences" by default to a web page, e.g.:
http://collections.wordsworth.org.uk/Object/WTcoll/id/GRMDC.C104.4
So you can stick that as it stands on an exhibition label, or print it on the label as a QR code and allow the public to grab the page with their phones. No need for Google searches ...
These LD identifiers will typically be based on the object's accession/identity number, but are a whole lot more useful.
Richard
On 28/10/2013 11:45, Mike Ellis wrote:
> Hello
>
> I was down at Tate St Ives yesterday and being an interesting kind of person (~cough~) I started looking at - and searching for - accession numbers from the gallery labels using Google.
>
> I was wondering if:
>
> 1) your institution always / sometimes / never puts accession numbers
> or unique ID's on-gallery
>
> and
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> 2) whether your institution always / sometimes / never makes sure it has online catalogue entries for items that end up being on-gallery.
>
> My in-depth research (of about 5 pictures) at the Tate seemed to indicate that everything I looked for was on their online catalogue with the exception of the borrowed items which [obviously] weren't.
>
> Anyway - any thoughts / info / anecdotes / research would make most interesting reading to me..
>
> thanks!
>
> Mike
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