Europeana – ideas, inspiration, culture

Europeana.eu is a collaboration between universities, research institutes and content providers. It was launched this year as a beta, and is scheduled to be available as a release in 2010.

The site includes a link to a prototype of the Europeana semantic search, as well as a functional beta Timeline navigator, communities and more.

Europeana links you to 4 million digital items including images, texts, sounds and videos from museums and galleries, archives, libraries and audio-visual collections. The list of organizations contributing content includes the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the British Library in London and the Louvre in Paris.

[Edited from Photomedia Forum post by T.Neugebauer from Aug 07, 2009]

Art and Architecture Thesaurus now available as Linked Open Data

It was informally announced during the 2013 LODLAM Summit in Montreal last year, and the official announcement was made today by Jim Cuno, the President and CEO of the Getty –http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/art-architecture-thesaurus-now-available-as-linked-open-data/

Getty Vocabularies, the Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), is now available as Linked Open Data. The dataset is available at vocab.getty.edu under an Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC BY 1.0).

The SPQRQL endpoint and the documentation is found here: http://vocab.getty.edu

Over the next 18 months, The Research Institute’s other three Getty Vocabularies – The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)®, The Union List of Artist Names®, and The Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)® will all become available as Linked Open Data.

For general information about our Linked Open Data project see http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/lod/

The open availability of these valuable data sets is great news for developers working with cultural data.

[Photomedia Forum post by T.Neugebauer from Feb 23, 2014 ]