semantic web and linked data for cultural heritage materials approaches in europeana antoine isaac...
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Semantic Web and Linked Data for cultural heritage materials
Approaches in Europeana
Antoine Isaac
Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamEuropeana
DANS Linked Data and RDF workshop, Den Haag, July 28th 2010
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A web of cultural heritage data?
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The current portal
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Towards semantic search: facets
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Building a search engine on top of metadata is difficultIntrinsic quality problems: correctness, coverage
Especially when data is so heterogeneous100s of formatsFrom flat 5-fields records to 100-nodes XML treesLanguage issue!
We currently use a simple interoperability formatQuick-win showing quickly its limits
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We can better use institutions’ original metadata
Accommodate their different practicesData structures and semantics
Access objects via a semantic layer of vocabularies for subjects, persons, places…
Semantic ThoughtLab: experimenting solutions
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Towards semantics-enabled searchBuilding a "semantic layer" to help accessing content
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Towards semantics-enabled search
• Enhance access to Europeana content by semantics– Query expansion, clustering of results
• Exploiting various types of relations– "located in", "lived in", "is more specific concept"…
• Semantics are already there, in metadata and "controlled vocabularies" used in metadata– Thesauri, classifications…
• Requires to make it properly machine-accessible
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Prototype: Europeana Thought Lab
http://europeana.eu/portal/thought-lab.html
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Semantic auto-completion
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Clustering of results
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Baseline: matching concepts' label
Controlled place name from a vocabulary at the Rijskmuseum
Metadata for the object
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A "more specific Egypte"?
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A "more specific Egypte"?Metadata for the object
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A place more specific than the Egypt one
Semantic information on the Giza place in the Rijskmuseum Vocabulary
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Following other relations
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Following other relations - creator
Metadata for the object
Controlled person name from a vocabulary at the Rijskmuseum
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Following other relations - matchInformation on Gustave Le Gray from the Rijskmuseum Vocabulary
Matched to a "Gustave Le Gray" from another Vocabulary
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Following other relations – death placeInformation on Gustave Le Gray from the Union List of Artist Names (Getty)
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Following other relations – death placeInformation on Cairo from the Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Getty)
Matched to "Cairo" from another vocabulary…
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• A hell of relations?
• Well, they were in the original data, we just had to make them explicit!
• Cultural Heritage institution often have a wealth of metadata to share and exploit
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Enabling bits & pieces
Exploiting semantic links in CH vocabulariesRijksmuseum thesaurus: Concept “Giza” narrower than concept “Egypte”
Mapping/alignment between CH vocabulariesLouvre’s “Égypte” equivalent to Rijksmuseum’s “Egypte”
Enrichment of existing metadataThe string “Egypt” in a metadata record indicates the concept of
Egypt defined in Rijksmuseum thesaurus
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SKOS, Knowledge Organization Systems and Linked Data
SKOS allows representing (simple) KOS data as RDF
animalsNT cats
catsUF domestic catsRT wildcatsBT animalsSN used only for domestic cats
domestic catsUSE cats
wildcats
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SKOS, KOSs and LD
SKOS allows bridging across KOSs from different contexts
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/
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SKOS is used!• Many Libraries – not a surprise!
• Swedish National Library’s Libris catalogue and thesaurus http://libris.kb.se/ • Library of Congress’ vocabularies, including LCSH http://id.loc.gov/ • DNB’s Gemeinsame Normdatei (incl. SWD subject headings) http://d-nb.info/gnd/
Documentation at https://wiki.d-nb.de/display/LDS
• BnF’s RAMEAU subject headings http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/ • OCLC’s DDC classification http://dewey.info/ and VIAF http://viaf.org/ • STW economy thesaurus http://zbw.eu/stw • National Library of Hungary’s catalogue and thesauri http://oszkdk.oszk.hu/resource/DRJ/404
(example)
• Other fields• Wikipedia categories through Dbpedia http://dbpedia.org/ • New York Times subject headings http://data.nytimes.com/ • IVOA astronomy vocabularies http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/Vocabularies.html• GEMET environmental thesaurus http://eionet.europa.eu/gemet • UMTHES• Agrovoc http://aims.fao.org/ • Linked Life Data http://linkedlifedata.com/ • Taxonconcept http://www.taxonconcept.org/ • UK Public sector vocabularies http://standards.esd.org.uk/ (e.g., http://id.esd.org.uk/lifeEvent/7 )
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KOS Alignments?
Quite many of them are linked to some other resource• LCSH, SWD and RAMEAU interlinked through MACS mappings• GND linked to DBpedia and VIAF• Libris linked to LCSH• Agrovoc to CAT, NAL, SWD, GEMET• NYT to freebase, DBpedia, Geonames• dbPedia links are overwhelming
Hungary, STW, TaxonConcept, GND…
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Enabling bits & pieces (c’ed)
Appropriate data model for objectsGeneric constructs for creation, title, subject, etc. that are useful
for querying
Flexible data modelSW ontology linking features allow to keep close to original data
while having the generic notions above
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Formal semantics, metadata schemas and querying
• The query:
• The existing description:
• Why is there a match?For the Europeana ontology, every rma:depicts statement implies a vra:subject statement
rma:gezicht_in_cairo
rma:Cairo
rma:depicts
rma:Egypt
skos:broader
?x
?y
vra:subject
rma:Egypt
skos:broader
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Where are the challenges?
• Semantic conversion of data– Using appropriate data models– Enriching legacy metadata
• Semantic alignments– Between description ontologies
vra:depicts rdfs:subPropertyOf dc:subject
– Between concepts in controlled vocabulariesiconclass:bird skos:closeMatch ddc:bird
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Alignment of semantic references
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Where are the challenges?
• Semantic alignment (c'ed)– Find correspondences between large vocabularies– In a multilingual context
• Scalability– Plugging the semantic features into the Europeana production
environment
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The Europeana Data Model (EDM)
with input from Carlo Meghini, Guus Schreiber, Stefan Gradmann, Maxx Dekkers, Steffen Hennicke, Viktor de
Boer et al. from Europeana V1
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Rationale of EDM
• Precursor: ESE (Europeana Semantic Elements)– represents lowest common denominator for object metadata
• convert datasets to Dublin-Core like standard
– forces interoperability– major drawback: original metadata is lost– most values are simple strings
• EDM goals– preserve original data while still allowing for interoperability– Semantic Web representation
• A community-driven effort– Core experts, validation by representatives of various CH domains
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EDM requirements & principles
1. Distinction between “provided object” (painting, book, program) and digital representation
2. Distinction between object and metadata record describing an object
3. Allow for multiple records for same object, containing potentially contradictory statements about an object
4. Support for objects that are composed of other objects
5. Standard metadata format that can be specialized
6. Standard vocabulary format that can be specialized
7. EDM should be based on existing standards
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EDM basics
• OAI ORE for organization of metadata about an object
• Dublin Core for metadata representation
• SKOS for vocabulary representation
+ Links to CIDOC-CRM and other shared ontologies
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Dublin Core
• EDM uses the latest version of DCMI Metadata Terms for a core of semantically interoperable properties– And for backward compatibility, cf. ESE
• Specified with an RDF model• Specialization of 15 original DC elements• Can be specialized itself
– see requirement -> this is a crucial distinction with ESE
• Used in the richest way possible– Pointers to resources
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SKOS: vocabulary publication on the Web
• Already seen…
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OAI ORE
• Specification:
http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/toc.html • Specified with an RDF model• Four key notions (RDF classes)
– Object: the book/painting/program being described– Aggregation: organizes object information from a particular
provider (museum, archive, library) – Proxy: the object as viewed in a metadata record– Digital representation: some digital form of the object with a Web
address
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The Example - 1
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The Example - 2
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Aggregation organizes data of a provider
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aggregation
digital representation
object
provenancemetadata
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Proxy: metadata record for an object
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proxy
objectmetadata
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Multiple aggregations = multiple providers
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aggregation of DMF
aggregation of Louvre
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Multiple aggregations = multiple providers
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DMF proxy
Louvre Proxy
Louvre title
DMF title
The “real” painting
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Europeana is “just” a special providerwith processed/enriched metadata
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Europeanaaggregation
enrichedmetadata
Europeana landingpage
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A flexible model: different semantic grains
• Cf. goal: “preserve original data while still allowing for interoperability”• Keep data expressed as close as possible to original model• Using mappings to more interoperable level
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A flexible model: objects, events and the rest
• Preserving and exploiting original data also means being compatible with descriptions beyond simple object level
• Also crucial for semantic enrichment
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A flexible model: object and events (2)
• Classes and Properties for event-, agent-, place-centric modeling
• Instances of (local) vocabularies using skos:Concept
• Using RDF, EDM allows any kind of network to be attached to a provided object.
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A flexible model: object and events (3)
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Advanced modeling in EDM
• Relations between provided objects– Part-whole links for complex (hierarchical) objects – Derivation and versioning relations– Relations between provided objects, for instance artistic derivation
between works; • ens:isRepresentationOf
• ens:isNextInSequence
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Linked data and cultural heritage?
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The case for linked data in cultural heritage
Not just a more sophisticated way to represent data!
• Ease of getting data from external sources– Just going to the URI and fetch the RDF there
• Ease of publishing data– Linked data as a dissemination channel for Europeana data
• Ease of linking across datasets– Linked data as a dissemination channel for Europeana data
• Object identification as cornerstone– Records are just a side feature!
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From a movement supported by researchersTo much wider awareness
Open government initiatives, libraries…
Continuing effort: show benefits of collaborating to a cultural heritage data web
Library Linked Data W3C incubatorhttp://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld
Encouraging open linked data adoption
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Linked Library Cloud beginning 2008
[Ross Singer, Code4Lib2010]
http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/singer
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Linked Library Cloud mid-2010
Plus:• Germany NL• Hungary NL• STW• GEMET• NYT• Agrovoc
[Ross Singer, Code4Lib2010] http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/singer
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Is that a surprise?
Not really, let’s have a look at a real-world case…
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Johan Stapel, Koninklijke Bibliotheek
KOS & collection environment @KB
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A broad range of datasets• That describe the same objects• Or related objects• Which are about similar subjects• Which were made by the same persons• Or related persons• In the same places• Etc…
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Europeana.eu teamWeb and Media lab @ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
http://wiki.cs.vu.nl/web-media
EuropeanaConnect projecthttp://www.europeanaconnect.eu/