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Cultosaurus Humongous or Everything you ever wanted to know about heritage...

Big ideas As mentioned in my earlier post – The thesaurus that time forgot – the idea of a combined Thesaurus of Monument Types for the whole of the UK has been around for more than a decade....

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Work in the pipeline

Publishing the vocabularies is the first phase in the immediate SENESCHAL project and broader work. More to follow later but briefly flagging up immediate plans. Linking out As good citizens of the LOD...

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How many beans make 5? or One man’s fish is another man’s poisson

As a little fella, I was often asked by my dad the somewhat perplexing question: “How many beans make 5?”. The even more perplexing answer, “a bean, a bean and a half, half a bean and 2 beans”,  is...

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Linked Open Data: a practical introduction for libraries, museums and...

The Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland are hosting a seminar on Linked Open Data at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, High School Yards, Edinburgh  on Monday 18th November.  Peter...

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Term suggestion, in a widget. What’s a widget?

Having the various vocabularies available online and accessible via web services we’re now in a position to create widgets (functional user interface controls) making use of the vocabularies. For this...

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Vocabularies in a useful form

Repeated references to RDF, SKOS, LOD, and REST services can sometimes seem an impenetrable wall of jargon leaving some people cold – how do we actually use all this stuff? Well the good news is that...

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SENESCHAL on the road

Towards the end of the SENESCHAL project a series of workshops were organised to engage with interested parties and project partners, to demonstrate the various outcomes of the project and to discuss...

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Gaelic thesaurus: Historic Scotland Press release

To launch their Gaelic thesaurus, Historic Scotland have issued a press release.  The article includes references to http://www.heritagedata.org/ as the home of Linked Data vocabularies for cultural...

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SENESCHAL project case study features in the Scottish Government Open Data...

The Scottish Government have just published an Open Data Resource Pack, developed to support Scotland’s Open Data Strategy which was published in February 2015. The Strategy sets out the Scottish...

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Its been a long time…

The original SENESCHAL project to create the heritagedata.org site, data, services and widgets ended way back in early 2014. In the intervening 5 years the resources have been utilized in a number of...

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