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Linked Art Model
A Linked Open Usable Data model, collaboratively designed
to work across cultural heritage organizations, that is easy
to publish and enables a variety of consuming applications.
Design Principles:
• Focused on Usability, not 100% precision / completeness
• Consistently solves actual challenges from real data
• Development is iterative, as new use cases are found
• Solve 90% of use cases, with 10% of the effort
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Linked Art Collaboration
Starting work to formalize the profile, funded by Kress
• Getty
• Rijksmuseum
• Louvre
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Smithsonian
• MoMA
• V&A
• NGA
• Philadelphia Art Museum
• Indianapolis Art Museum
• The Frick Collection
• Harvard University
• Princeton University
• Yale Centre for British Art
• Oxford University
• Academica Sinica
• ETH Zurich
• FORTH
• Zeri Foundation (U. Bologna)
• Canadian Heritage Info. Network
• American Numismatics Society
• Europeana
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Design Principles
• Design for JSON-LD
• JSON is the preferred format of developers
• JSON-LD lets us map E numbers to dev-friendly terms
• As Simple as Possible, but no Simpler
• Reduced number of classes, properties
• … based on use cases and real world data
• Thorough Documentation, with Real Examples
• Devs copy examples, they don’t read scope notes
• Working examples encourage implementation
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JSON-LD 1.1
• Map ontology terms to familiar strings
• E22_Man-Made_Object --> ManMadeObject
• P1_is_identified_by --> identified_by
• All partitioning terms --> part / part_of
• Fix collisions e.g. P45 --> made_of
• Hide namespaces (considered difficult)
• Consistency
• If ever multiple values, always an array
• Consistent tree structure easier to work with
• Automatable with SPARQL and JSON-LD frames
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Core Features
• No short cuts: A longer route is simpler than multiple
• Reduces condition checking code
• Can add boiler plate resources copied from examples
• No multiple instantiation
• If needed, create a new merge class
• E.g. Linguistic Object + Appellation --> la:Name
• Now: E33_E41_Linguistic_Appellation --> “Name”
• Partitioning
• Valuable paradigm in core ontology
• Missing distinction between membership & parts?
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New Features: Property Interest
• Property Interest
• A claimed instance of a Right over property,
• … with time and place
• Modeled after Period + Attribute Assignment
• Sub Class Of E71 Man Made Thing
• Useful for unequal partitioning of ownership
• E.g. two dealers who jointly own a painting
• More robust model for sale of stolen items
• Probably too specific for base CRM ontology