Leif Isaksen, Keith May
Linked Data and Semantic Web based approaches to data management have now become commonplace in the field of heritage. So commonplace in fact, that despite frequent mention in digital literature, and a growing familiarity with concepts such as URIs and RDF across the domain, it is starting to see fall off in Computer Science conferences and journals as many of the purely technical issues are seen to be ‘solved’. So is the revolution over? We propose that until the benefits of Linked Data are seen in real interconnections between independent systems it will not properly have begun. This session will discuss the socio-technical challenges required to build a concrete Semantic Web in the heritage sector. We particularly invite papers that offer practical approaches and experience relating to:
- Interface development and user support for ingestion, annotation and consumption
- Management, publication and sustainability of Linked Data resources
- Building cross and inter-domain Linked Data communities
- Processes for establishing usage conventions of specific terms, vocabularies and ontologies
- Alignment processes for overlapping vocabularies
- Engage non-technical users with adopting semantic technologies
- Licensing and acknowledgment in distributed systems (especially those across multiple legal jurisdictions)
- Incorporation within other software paradigms: TEI, GIS, plain text, imaging software, VR, etc.
- Access implications of integrating open and private content
- Mapping the Field – what components are now properly in place? What remains to be done?
Papers should try to provide evidence of proposed approaches in use across multiple systems wherever possible. Purely theoretical papers and those dealing solely with a single data system are explicitly out of scope for this session.
Keywords: Linked Data, Semantic Web, Web Science
