Producing and consuming linked open data on art with a local community
冬子 松村, Iwao Kobayashi, Fumihiro Kato, Tetsuro Kamura, Ikki Ohmukai, Hideaki Takeda · 2012
The importance of Linked Open Data (LOD) has not yet been recognized by ordinary people. As the effort to involve them into LOD activity, we have developed Yokohama Art Spot, a mash-up application on local museum information to demonstrate the value of information sharing and reuse where data from different communities are used together. Thanks to the flexibility of LOD, it provides useful views for local museum information and uses three different data sources, i.e., LODAC Museum which is a museum collection dataset, Yokohama Art LOD which is an event dataset maintained by a local community, and PinQA which is a Q&A dataset maintained by a company. In particular, Yokohama Art LOD was the result of communication among researchers, local volunteers, and people of the local government. Yokohama Art Spot works as a good example of how such efforts by local people can be rewarded by flexible use of the provided data.