The British Museum is the First UK Arts Organisation to Publish its Collection Semantically

From ArtDaily.com:

The British Museum has released “a Semantic Web version of the database complementing the Collection Online search facility. The Museum is the first UK arts organisation to instigate a Semantic Web version of its collection data. The new service brings the British Museum into the ‘linked data’ world and will allow software developers to produce their own applications that can directly manipulate and reuse the data.

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This Semantic version has been enhanced by applying the CIDOC-CRM (Conceptual Reference Model) ontology. By converting data to this ISO accredited semantic framework the potential to harmonise and build data relationships with other organisations is greatly enhanced. In addition, the service comes with a more open data licence encouraging wider reuse.

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The service is initially released as a beta while development work continues. It supports the formats JSON, RDF, TTL and N3 and returns SPARQL queries in JSON and RDF/XML.

Direct to British Museum Semantic Web Collection Online (Beta)

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