Haarlem, 7 April 2011

(by Ton Zijlstra)

As we reported earlier on May 13 an event is taking place in the Netherlands about Linked Open Data around cultural (heritage) data. As said then "Culture and cultural heritage is one of the domains that are newly emerging into the open (government) data and re-use discussion. Government and publicly funded institutions maintain large archives and databases on everything that defines our cultural heritage, even though they currently fall outside the scope of what is deemed PSI. At the same time many cultural institutions see beneficial effects in making their material as widely available as possible, thus exposing and involving more citizens to and in it. This makes for an exciting field of discussion."

The program for the Dutch Culture Linked Open Data event is now available, and registration is open. Next to explaining what linked data is, and how to make use of it, also various projects around linked data in the cultural sector will be featured. A hands-on workshop will train people in releasing data as linked data.