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Exploring Audiovisual Archives Through Aligned Thesauri

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Abstract

As audiovisual archives are digitizing their collections and making these collections available online, the need arises to also establish connections between different collections and to allow for cross-collection search and browsing. Structured vocabularies, made available as Linked Data, can be used as connecting points by aligning thesauri from different institutions. In this paper, we present a case study where partial collections of two audiovisual archives are connected by aligning their thesauri. We report on the conversion of one of the thesauri to SKOS and on the subsequent application of an interactive alignment tool “CultuurLINK”. Finally, we introduce an cross-collection browser which uses the produced alignment to allow users to explore connections between the two collections.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://viaa.be.

  2. 2.

    http://beeldengeluid.nl.

  3. 3.

    http://datahub.io/dataset/gemeenschappelijke-thesaurus-audiovisuele-archieven.

  4. 4.

    http://openimages.eu.

  5. 5.

    We use http://example.org as temporary namespace in the produced SKOS files.

  6. 6.

    https://github.com/NatLibFi/Skosify/.

  7. 7.

    https://github.com/viaacode/skoscreator.

  8. 8.

    http://cultuurlink.beeldengeluid.nl.

  9. 9.

    A strategy can be revisited by entering a session identifier “vrt_onderwerpen”,“vrt_plaatsen”, “vrt_namen” and “vrt_personen”.

  10. 10.

    http://github.com/biktorrr/gtou_taalunie.

  11. 11.

    http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/test/.

  12. 12.

    Available upon request.

  13. 13.

    Note that the thesaurus labels are in Dutch which we translate for this paper.

  14. 14.

    Specifically, the application is implemented using the Spinque Core platform http://www.spinque.com/spinque-core.

  15. 15.

    http://openskos.beeldengeluid.nl/.

  16. 16.

    https://wordnet.princeton.edu/.

  17. 17.

    http://dbpedia.org.

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This research was funded by Taalunie project “Gemeenschappelijke Thesaurus voor Uniforme Ontsluiting”.

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  1. Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, The Netherlands

    Victor de Boer & Johan Oomen

  2. Department of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Victor de Boer

  3. Flemish Institute for Archiving, Ghent, Belgium

    Matthias Priem & Nico Verplancke

  4. Spinque B.V., Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Michiel Hildebrand & Arjen de Vries

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de Boer, V., Priem, M., Hildebrand, M., Verplancke, N., de Vries, A., Oomen, J. (2016). Exploring Audiovisual Archives Through Aligned Thesauri. In: Garoufallou, E., Subirats Coll, I., Stellato, A., Greenberg, J. (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 672. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49157-8_19

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