MetaBelgica Project: A Linked Data Infrastructure Between Federal Scientific Institutes in Belgium

Trustworthy metadata about entities related to cultural heritage is important to correctly identify bibliographic meta-data, attribute works, identify works of public domain (based on contributors’ date of death), or to support Named Entity Linking (NEL) for digitised documents. However, in Belgium such data is currently dispersed between numerous institutions, modelled with different ontologies, represented in different formats and curated in different languages. GLAM institutions would profit from data about Belgian entities to correctly annotate their collections.Furthermore, this would fac... Mehr ...