Interesting stuff.
I've used the Wikipedia API (note, not Wikidata currently) in
http://postcodepast.com - an early alpha hack which is an experiment in
discovery of non-geotagged cultural heritage content to attempt to link
items with geotagged 'places of interest'. I was thinking of switching to
OSM as I can reduce noise by filtering down to certain types of placemarks,
for example heritage sites. Will follow this thread with interest.
Cheers, James
On 24 Jul 2015 16:29, "Richard Light" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> This is an interesting example of using shared identifiers and then
> pooling the results. As and when the identifiers are persistent Linked
> Data ones, that will be even better. Using a standard resource like the OS
> Open Data gives you the added benefit of geolocation for your records, but
> care needs to be taken over licensing terms and intended use of the data.
> Also, for some collections the lack of an historical perspective may be an
> issue; as may the scope (U.K. only) for others.
>
> Do other list members have experiences of using geo authorities to share?
> I've experimented with both Geonames [1] and OSM [2]; neither is ideal. At
> the Pelagios Linked Pasts workshop earlier this week, Wikidata [3] was
> being suggested as a potential solution. Then of course there is now the
> TGN [4]. All offer some sort of API, so we could potentially set up
> 'widgets' to support capture of their URLs rather than needing to download
> the whole resource and set up a local termlist.
>
> Richard
>
> [1] http://www.geonames.org/
> [2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/
> [3] https://www.wikidata.org/
> [4] http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/
>
> On 24/07/2015 13:07, Stephen McConnachie wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I thought this might be of interest on a rainy Friday: a blog I wrote for
>> the Ordnance Survey about the BFI's use of their Open Data product to
>> create the data spine which underpins our mass digitisation and map
>> visualisation project, Britain on Film.
>>
>> OS blog:
>>
>> http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2015/07/mapping-britain-on-film-with-os-opendata/#more-19804
>>
>> Britain on Film:
>> http://player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film/
>>
>> I've always intended to share the UK Location hierarchy (once I've
>> improved it in reference to the next generation of OS open data, which has
>> persistent unique identifiers) with fellow Adlib users who are interested,
>> as it is importable to any Adlib thesaurus very easily (and the OS open
>> data licence lets me share it as long as recipients agree to the same
>> terms).
>>
>> I can also consider sharing it beyond the Adlib community if there's any
>> interest, as it's exportable in a very transparent XML markup which could
>> inform a simple import to any system I suspect.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
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