[OpenGLAM] getty thesaurus, linked data, and sparql

Sat Feb 22 12:33:47 UTC 2014

On 21/02/2014 16:50, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>> Today the Getty released the Art and Architecture Thesaurus as Linked Open Data [1].
> Releasing the Getty Thesaurus as linked data is very interesting, and after visiting the blog posting I discovered a SPARQL endpoint to the data. [2] Yet, I seem to always have problems exploring SPARQL endpoints without having an in-depth and thorough knowledge of the underlying ontologies. Is this just me, or am I missing something?

You can browse the subject hierarchy at 
http://www.getty.edu/vow/AATHierarchy?find=&logic=AND&note=&english=N&subjectid=300000000 
I always find it easier to write queries when I've got a sense of what 
I'm aiming for so it was the first thing I looked for.

You can also download the dataset from http://vocab.getty.edu/ but the 
full file is over 1gb in size so could be difficult to handle.

Cheers, Mia