Description
How are museums publishing and consuming linked data in the wild? Why use linked data in the first place? Software engineers from the Getty Trust will lead a workshop on the building blocks for using LOD to build digital applications and experiences. Geared toward museum technologists interested in implementing or supporting linked data within their own contexts, this workshop offers participants an understanding of the broad potential that linked open data offers museum collections, both as the basis for building traditional applications like search and collection pages as well as a foundation for more exploratory use cases. The workshop centers on using Linked Art, a linked data model created by and for the cultural heritage community.
We will touch on the benefits and drawbacks of linked open data for cultural heritage with an introduction to linked data and the Linked Art model, which is used by the Getty and other art institutions in museum applications. The majority of the workshop will be devoted to gaining hands-on experience with getting data from linked data endpoints published by both the Getty and other institutions, transforming that data using open-source tools, and consuming it within example applications. Using the Getty’s publicly available data APIs and open-source Linked Art library with the hosted collaborative notebook platform Observable, participants will walk through a sample set of exercises that will establish a common framework of understanding and provide a sandbox environment for further experimentation.
The only requirements are a laptop, internet access, and an account on Observable [https://observablehq.com/]. Possibly helpful but by no means required are basic experience with a programming language such as Javascript, Python, or Ruby and any level of familiarity with linked data and/or IIIF.
Intended Audience:
Museum technologists, particularly those interested in implementing or supporting linked data within their own institutions, platforms, or products.
Supporting Links:
This workshop proposal is in part inspired by a set of “experiment days” undertaken by Getty developers as well as the release of an open-source Javascript library meant to streamline many of the common uses of Linked.Art data for those incorporating it into applications.
- Linked Art [https://linked.art/]
- JR Ladd. “Understanding Linked Art.” Observable notebook, 2022. [https://observablehq.com/@jrladd/linked-art-1]
- JR Ladd. “Working With Linked Art.” Observable notebook, 2022. [https://observablehq.com/@jrladd/linked-art-2]
- JR Ladd. “Exploring Linked Art.” Observable notebook, 2022. [https://observablehq.com/@jrladd/linked-art-3]
- Linkedart.js [https://www.linkedartjs.org/]
- Robert Wellington. “Metadata, material culture, and global art history,” Cambridge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History, 2020. [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429505188-29/metadata-material-culture-global-art-history-robert-wellington?context=ubx&refId=2f79b42b-eeee-4d0b-ad2d-182d9d8e0ee1]
