Digital Library Seminar Series: 2013-04-16
This event is sponsored by the Digital Humanities Center and the Libraries Digital Program Division.
It is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.
Topic
Linked Open Data for Digital Heritage: Opportunities and Challenges
Speaker
Cristina Pattuelli
Affiliation
Associate Professor, Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science
Description
Linked Open Data (LOD) technology is rapidly leaving research labs and entering mainstream development. Cultural institutions have been playing a pivotal role in fostering the LOD initiative by building a rich landscape of projects in the domain of digital heritage. However, the potential of applying LOD technology to cultural data and its practical uses for integrating, sharing, and reusing heterogeneous data from multiple sources are not yet fully explored. This talk will provide an overview of principles and methods of LOD and will discuss advantages as well as challenges of adopting a linked data approach to cultural data. The development of Linked Jazz, a LOD project centered on jazz history digital archives, will provide the real-world scenario to ground the discussion.
Date
April 16, 2013
Day
Tuesday
Time
Noon - 1:45 PM
Location
523 Butler Library, Morningside Heights Campus, Columbia University
