[open-heritage] Open data from cultural heritage organisations?

Sat Nov 20 22:37:22 UTC 2010

Dear Jonathan,

We published our thesaurus some weeks ago:

http://www.ckan.net/package/gemeenschappelijke-thesaurus-audiovisuele-archie
ven

(using the ODbL)

Best wishes,
Johan

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drs. Johan Oomen

Head of Research · Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
PhD candidate · VU University Amsterdam
e: joomen at beeldengeluid.nl
t: @johanoomen
s: johan.oomen

Op 20-11-10 17:53, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> schreef:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone can point me to:
> 
>   (i) any fully open (as in opendefinition.org) datasets from cultural
> heritage organisations?
>   (ii) any people who are interested in (i)?
> 
> Regarding (i), I'd be grateful if anyone could either email links to
> this thread or add things to CKAN, e.g. tagged 'culturalheritage' [1].
> 
> Regarding (ii), I'd be grateful for any suggestions or introductions
> off list, so that I can try and invite people here. (Ian: perhaps
> you'd be up for helping me to do this?) E.g. does anyone know folks
> from:
> 
> http://museum3.org/group/linkeddata
> http://museum-api.pbworks.com/
> 
> I've just been looking at the Culture Grid data [2], but I'm still not
> clear whether there is currently any data available for download in
> bulk and whether *anything* there is available under an open license
> [3]. If there is anything under an open license, I'd be very
> interested in seeing if we can mirror/extract this open segment and
> make it available for download in bulk.
> 
> [1] http://ckan.net/tag/culturalheritage
> [2] http://ckan.net/package/culturegrid
> [3] E.g. http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/copy-stat
> 