Abstract
Cultural heritage is the way of life. Using digital technology to manage the information of cultural heritage has become an important issue on the perseverance of cultural heritage. Several cultural heritage institutions have their own large databases with different metadata schemas. Linked Open Data is a mechanism of publishing structured data that allows metadata to be connected. This paper presents a methodology for integrating, converting Lanna cultural heritage metadata and linking data to external data sources. Our framework uses OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative—Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) by converting the various metadata formats to Dublin Core metadata standard. The Dublin Core/XML was used for the integrated metadata to create a central repository of data sources. The OAI harvester was developed to extract data from the various repositories and gather data into the repository. A framework for publishing the repository data as a Linked Data source in the RDF format using the OAM Framework is described. In this framework, ontology is used as a common schema for publishing the RDF data from the database sources by mapping database schema to ontology. Finally, we demonstrate Linked Data consumption by creating a cultural heritage portal application prototype from the published RDF data sources.
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Buranasing, W., Buranarach, M., Wutiwiwatchai, C. (2018). Open Data Integration for Lanna Cultural Heritage e-Museums. In: Theeramunkong, T., Skulimowski, A., Yuizono, T., Kunifuji, S. (eds) Recent Advances and Future Prospects in Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems. KICSS 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 685. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70019-9_3
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