Linked Open Data

Getting Started

The first sections of the introductory course about Linked Open Data in cultural heritage collections, developed at Leiden University, explains the basic principles of Linked Open Data (LOD):

• Basic principles

A good introduction to the basic principles of Linked Open Data can also be found at the Programming historian:

• Introduction to Linked Data

Advanced

The course about Linked Open Data in cultural heritage collections, developed at Leiden University also includes a tutorial about a number of tools that can be used to create and to publish LOD. More specifically, it contains discussions of the LDwizard and CLARIAH Data Legend tool ‘COW’.

To be able to retrieve and analyse Linked Open Data, you need to know how to build SPARQL queries. The following courses can be helpful:

• Introduction to SPARQL

• Using SPARQL to access Linked Open Data

  Note that the tutorial is somewhat outdated. The British Library SPARQL endpoint that is discussed in the text is not longer available at this address.

Cookbooks

Examples of SPARQL queries used to collect and analyse data from heritage institutions can be found in the notebooks below:

• The Europeana SPARQL endpoint

• Wikidata

• Short Title Catalogue of the Netherlands

• The Dutch Institute for Art History