Title
Evaluating the success of vocabulary reconciliation for cultural heritage collections.
Abstract
The concept of Linked Data has made its entrance in the cultural heritage sector due to its potential use for the integration of heterogeneous collections and deriving additional value out of existing metadata. However, practitioners and researchers alike need a better understanding of what outcome they can reasonably expect of the reconciliation process between their local metadata and established controlled vocabularies which are already a part of the Linked Data cloud. This paper offers an in-depth analysis of how a locally developed vocabulary can be successfully reconciled with the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and the Arts and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) through the help of a general-purpose tool for interactive data transformation (OpenRefine). Issues negatively affecting the reconciliation process are identified and solutions are proposed in order to derive maximum value from existing metadata and controlled vocabularies in an automated manner.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1002/asi.22763
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Keywords
Field
DocType
semantic web,metadata,controlled vocabularies
Data mining,Metadata,World Wide Web,Architecture,Cultural heritage,Information retrieval,Computer science,Controlled vocabulary,Semantic Web,Linked data,Vocabulary,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
64
3
1532-2882
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
1.48
19
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Seth van Hooland1518.71
Ruben Verborgh2630105.49
Max De Wilde3274.21
Johannes Hercher4283.76
Erik Mannens567199.58
Rik Van de Walle62040238.28