www.culturaitalia.it

dati.culturaitalia.it

a Pilot Project of CulturaItalia dedicated to

Linked Open Data

Rosa Caffo, Director of Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries (MiBACT)

Sara Di Giorgio, ICCU CulturaItalia technical staff

Emilia Masci, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Paolo Ongaro, Alberto Raggioli, META Group srl

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32 partners included

thematic aggregators

15.000 Editorials

To discover cultural

activities and partner

http://www.culturaitalia.it

Community on Social

Network

CulturaItalia

More than 2,4 M of

metadata: from museums,

photographs, libraries,

archives, galleries,

exhibits, monuments,

videos, discs, etc.

651.492 record in CC0 in

Europeana (also throught

Athena aggregator)

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CulturaItalia is the The Portal of Italian Culture, of the

Italian Ministry for cultural heritage, activities and tourism

that aggregates contents pertaining to the whole Italian

cultural heritage domain.

The Portal gives access to a database of “metadata” ,

called ‘Index’, which gathers and organises the

information arriving from the various providers

participating in CulturaItalia

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ArtPast aggregator

Museum

Region aggregatore

Universities

Internet Culturale thematic aggregator

National content aggregator for

Europeana, based on the same standard

for content interoperability

Interoperability

Aggregate

Dissemination

Service for users

and stakeholeders

SAN aggregator

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CulturaItalia describes digital

resources using a specifically

conceived Application Profile based

on Dublin Core (PICO AP).

URL:

http://purl.org/pico/picoap1.0.xml

The resources are classified within

the Index through a Thesaurus

(PICO Thesaurus) in SKOS aimed

to describe the topic of the

resource .

URL:http://purl.org/pico/thesaurus

_4.1.0.skos.xml

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Application Profile

PICO Thesaurus (available in Italian and English) Who – The cultural life protagonists:

• Persons • Families • Public and private bodies

What – Cultural heritage, documentary resources, services, domain areas, activities for the development and the preservation of cultural heritage:

• Cultural repositories • Cross domain artworks • Applied art • Scientific research and education • Events, services, law

Where – Locations When – Cronology

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dati.culturaitalia is a pilot project realized in CulturaItalia dedicated to Open Data and Linked Open Data. Engine: Virtuoso Open-Source Edition Number of statements: 15.048.155

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The pilot project dati.culturaitalia.it contains open data sets of CulturaItalia

released by the project partners with the Creative Commons Universal

Public Domain Dedication (CCO).

Currently dati.culturaitalia.it makes available metadata from: Italian Registry

of Libraries, Accademia S. Cecilia, ArtPast, Digibess, ICCU, Internet

Culturale, Michael Italia, Polo Museale Fiorentino and Regione Marche, in

addition to the Thesaurus PICO.

Our SPARQL endpoint provides access to RDF metadata structured according

to the CIDOC - Conceptual Reference Model in the implementation of

Erlangen CRM / OWL. Data can be searched over three querying interfaces,

corresponding to three sections of dati.culturaitalia.it:

• Text search: here it is possible to perform free text searches over all

triples contained in dati.culturaitalia.it.

• SPARQL query: here you can try your hand at a SPARQL query. There

are also some examples of queries.

• iSPARQL query: here there is an even more complex querying interface

for advanced users.

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OAI Provider makes available XML or RDF

metadata structured according to different

schemas:

• oai-dc (xml): OAI-PMH schema adopted by Open

Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata

Harvesting

• pico (xml): PICO Application Profile, the

CulturaItalia Application Profile

• edm (rdf): Europeana Data Model, adopted by

the portal Europeana

• cidoc (rdf): CIDOC - Conceptual Reference Model

in the implementation of Erlangen CRM / OWL

Click on dati.culturaitalia.it OAI Provider to

access.

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Documentation available:

Mapping between PICO Application Profile and

EDM-Europeana Data Model –: Document

defining the mapping rules to transform

the digital cultural resources structured

according to the PICO Application Profile,

into records structured according to EDM

– Europeana Data Model

Mapping between PICO Application

Profile and CIDOC Conceptual

Reference Document defining the

mapping rules to transform the digital

cultural resources structured according to

the PICO Application Profile, into records

structured according to the CIDOC

Conceptual Reference Model

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http://www.culturaitalia.it/opencms/documentazione_tecnica_en.jsp?language=en

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Next steps and perspectives

The main goal of the next activities is a strengthening of

the actual LOD environment:

to acquire and to integrate more data

to obtain a better quality and uniformity of the published

data

to extend the interoperability with LOD systems (linking data

with more LOD providers)

to develop a more effective interaction for the users

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Main tasks:

Interoperability and integration with the MiBACT

SBN LOD project

Integration of specialized thesauri and mapping

rules (internal and external) for a better uniformity

of metadata contents

Linking of the metadata contents to further

repositories published as LOD (e.g. the Getty

Vocabularies)

Enhancing of user interfaces for a better fruition of

the LOD repository contents and for a more

effective interaction between the LOD platform and

the traditional Cultura Italia environment

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Direzione generale per l’innovazione tecnologica e la promozione

Thanks!

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mission: Open data