How to deal with massively heterogeneous cultural heritage data – lessons learned in CultureSampo

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Mäkelä, Eetu | Hyvönen, Eero | Ruotsalo, Tuukka

Affiliations: Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo), Aalto University, P.O. Box 15500, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: eetu.makela@tkk.fi.

Abstract: This paper presents the CultureSampo system from the viewpoint of publishing heterogeneous linked data as a service. Discussed are the problems of converting legacy data into linked data, as well as the challenge of making the massively heterogeneous yet interlinked cultural heritage content interoperable on a semantic level. In the approach described, the data is published not only for human use, but also as intelligent services for other computer systems that can then provide interfaces of their own for the linked data. As a concrete use case of using CultureSampo as a service, the BookSampo system for publishing Finnish fiction literature on the semantic web is presented.

Keywords: Heterogeneous linked data, cultural heritage, services

DOI: 10.3233/SW-2012-0049

Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 85-109, 2012