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This highly practical handbook teaches you how to unlock the value of your existing metadata through cleaning, reconciliation, enrichment and linking and how to streamline the process of new metadata creation.
Metadata experts Seth van Hooland and Ruben Verborgh introduce the key concepts of metadata standards and Linked Data and how they can be practically applied to existing metadata, giving readers the tools and understanding to achieve maximum results with limited resources.
In this book
Chapter 1: Modelling
Key learning outcomes:
- Putting Linked Data in a larger context
- Getting out of a hype-driven view on technology
- Understanding the importance of data modelling
- Making sense of data models and their serialization formats
Case study: Linked Data at your fingertips
Chapter 2: Cleaning
Key learning outcomes:
- Adopting a broader view of metadata quality
- Why you need to clean your metadata in the context of Linked Data
- Identification of most common metadata quality issues
- Understanding the possibilities and limits of automated metadata cleaning
Case study: cleaning metadata of the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
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Chapter 3: Reconciling
Key learning outcomes:
- Why controlled vocabularies are important for Linked Data
- Being able to compare the lightweight Linked Data approach with the full-fledged Semantic Web
- Understanding the role of SKOS
- Learning to select the most suitable vocabularies to leverage your metadata
Case study: reconciling the metadata of the Powerhouse Museum
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- “Modern Art” sample data (csv)
- “Modern Art” ontology (ttl)
- Powerhouse Museum Collection (tsv)
- Powerhouse Museum Collection (zip)
Chapter 4: Enriching
Key learning outcomes:
- Getting value out of non-structured metadata
- Understanding current possibilities and limits of named-entity recognition
- Being aware of the information versus non-information debate
Case study: enriching the British Library metadata
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Chapter 5: Publishing
Key learning outcomes:
- Issuing URLs and managing them in the long term
- Designing representations for manual and automated consumption
- Understanding the role of REST for global architecture of your database
Case study: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
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