eMuseum Network is a search and collaboration platform designed and hosted by Gallery Systems. The project enables member museums to share their collections catalogues and to search and export data across all participating collections from a single access point, in a share-and-share-alike fashion. This presentation will give an overview of the project and how Gallery Systems plans to provide a path for museums to participate in the Linked Data Initiative.

1. Sascha Curzon, presenter

2. Background
• Distributed Search Pilot Project –
2001/2002
– Proof of concept
• Distributed Search Pilot Project V2 – 2006
– Additional nodes added, more remote nodes
• eMuseum Network – 2007
– Re-branding, updated interface
• eMuseum Network version 2 – 2009
– Platform defined, extensive development
begun
• 2010 – data interchange and first level of
integration with TMS added

3. What is
eMuseum Network?
• A way to search across museum
collections from a single access
point
• A tool for the museum community
to exchange data electronically
• Not just search, but a platform
for collaborating

5. How does it work?
• Each participating museum is a „node‟
• One central search point, like Google
• Choose which collections to search
– Keyword & advanced search
– Refine searches
• See which nodes returned results
• View in list, light box, single item and
XML
• Export functions: CDWA Lite & LIDO

6. Architecture

7. eMuseum Network
Lightbox view

8. eMuseum Network
Lightbox view
Josef Albers
Title contains
“square”

9. eMuseum Network
Object view

10. eMuseum Network
• Demonstration

11. Data Interchange Schema
Public
Museum-to-
museum
Internal / confidential

12. Levels of Information
• Objects (label copy)
• Constituents (maker information)
• Media (public images & other)
• Bibliography
• Exhibitions (past & current)
• Exhibitions (planning, venues)
• Loans
• Insurance & indemnity
• Media
• Acquisitions
• Exhibitions (future, conceptual)
• Location & movement
• Conservation
• Insurance & valuation
• Images, documents & other media

13. Information Flow
Between Museums
Loan documents Loan transactions
sent transmitted
electronically

14. Linked Data
• The term Linked Data refers to a set of
best practices for publishing and
connecting structured data on the
Web.
• Key technologies that support Linked
Data are URIs, HTTP, and RDF.
Source: http://linkeddata.org/faq

15. Linked Data
Source: http://linkeddata.org

16. Linked Data Connections
Geo
eMuseum Taxonomy
Names
Network
DB
pedia
AAT
TGN ULAN
AAT = Art & Architecture Thesaurus
TGN = Thesaurus of Geographic Name
ULAN = Union List of Artist Names

17. What is the Future of our
Data?

18. eMuseum Network
Interested in learning more?
Please contact Robb Detlefs at:
eMuseumNetwork @ GallerySystems.com