Short description of the ALIADA project. The aim of the project is to automatically publish library and museum data into the LOD cloud

1. Automatic publication of library and
museum data into the LOD cloud
Ádám Horváth
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
SWIB14 : Semantic Web in Libraries Conference
Bonn, 2 - 3 December, 2014

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Contents
http://aliada-project.eu
• Introduction
• What is ALIADA
• ALIADA features
• ALIADA components
• ALIADA project

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Introduction
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• ELAG 2010
– Lightning talk
• 1 library: the Hungarian National Library
– Entire catalogue, authority data, thesaurus
• SWIB10
– Invited speaker
• About the same topic

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Introduction
http://aliada-project.eu
• SWIB14 - Lightning talk
– All libraries and all museums in the world
• Bibliographic
• Museum
• Authority data
– Automatic publication into the LOD cloud
• The only thing they have to able to provide is
their data in
– MARC
– LIDO
– DC

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With the help of ALIADA
http://aliada-project.eu
• What is ALIADA?

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ALIADA is
http://aliada-project.eu
• Open source tool
– Published under GPLv3 license
• Written in Java
– JEE Web Application and application client modules
• Uses open source frameworks
– Apache Struts
– Apache Camel
– Apache Velocity
– Silk
– Freelib-MARC4j

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ALIADA features
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• ALIADA ontology
– FRBROO
– SKOS-XL
– FOAF
– WGS84
– OWL-Time
• Virtuoso RDF store
– SPARQL endpoint

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ALIADA features
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• External link creation
– SILK
• DBpedia
• GeoNames
• FreeBase
• British National Bibliography
• Spanish National Library
• Europeana
• Hungarian National Library
• MARC Code List
• Library of Congress Subject Headings
• Lobid
• VIAF
• Open Library

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ALIADA features
http://aliada-project.eu
• Automatic registration
– datahub.io

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ALIADA main components
http://aliada-project.eu
• User Interface
• RDFizer
• Links Discovery
• Linked Data Server

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RDFizer
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• REST interface
• Handles conversion templates
• Based on internal DSL
– Easy to adapt another ontology or
change/improve the current mapping
• Entity detection
– Works, Expressions, Manifestation
– Persons, Organizations, Groups
– Themes

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User Interface
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• Easy to use
– Libarians or curators are able to use it

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ALIADA on Github
http://aliada-project.eu
• The first prototype is available
– The earlier you start to use it, the more
chance to influence the end result
• https://github.com/ALIADA/aliada-tool/
– https://github.com/ALIADA/aliada-tool/wiki
– https://github.com/ALIADA/aliada-tool/issue

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ALIADA is also a project
http://aliada-project.eu
• ALIADA: Automatic publication under
LInked DAta Paradigm of library Data
• Project supported by the European
Commission under the 7th frame program.
• From November 2013 up to October 2015
(24 months)

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ALIADA is also a project
http://aliada-project.eu
• 5 partners
– 3 different countries ( Spain, Italy, Hungary)
• 2 IT companies
– SCANBIT (Spain)
– @CULT (Italy)
• 2 art museums
– ARTIUM (Spain)
– Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Hungary)
• 1 research body with high skills in semantic
technology
– TECNALIA (Spain)

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http://aliada-project.eu
@aliadaproject