Articles by Sara Di Giorgio

The pilot project dati.culturaitalia.it started in 2012 to build up a Linked Open DataLOD) Service that will progressively make available open data-sets from the web-portal CulturaItalia, the Italian national aggregator for Europeana. The application, online since 2013 (http://dati.culturaitalia.it/), was designed to allow the resources aggregated by CulturaItalia to be involved into large semantic networks after exposing, sharing and connecting data according to LOD principles. CulturaItalia is the Portal of Italian Culture managed by the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU), in which are involved cultural institutions - museums, archives and libraries - from national, regional and local levels. Metadata aggregated by CulturaItalia, encoded according to the XML schema PICO Dublin Core Application Profile (PICO AP), were mapped into two different RDF schemas: the Europeana Data Model (EDM) and the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM). In particular, the OWL implementation named Erlangen CRM was chosen for implementing the mapping. RDF triples mapped into Erlangen CRM were then enriched with links to URIs identifying instances of internationally established RDF resources for geographic names and authority files for personal and corporate names, such as GeoNames and Virtual International Authority File (VIAF).