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THE DIGITAL POMPIDOU CENTRE
Applying Linked Data principles to cultural heritage data
› About the project
› Linking cultural data
› The data model

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FIGURES & FACTS
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76.000 works in the museum
85% of these works are digitized
3 libraries (Bpi, Ircam, Kandinsly
library)
Archives going back to the
creation of the center (1970's)
3,6 million visitors in 2011 on site
5 million visitors in 2011 on the
website
75000 attendees to live events
(conferences, spectacles,
concerts, film screenings) per
year
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coymelancon/1186243013

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THE PROJECT
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THE DIGITAL POMPIDOU CENTRE
> A new website, intended to replace the current institutional website by a
semantic web based digital library.

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THE ISSUE
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Libraries
MARC Format Archives
OAI-PMH + MODS
Authorities EAD finding aids Museum
Hierarchical
descriptions Shared collection
management tool Audiovisual
material
in-house built
database
+ the agenda : a database of interlinked events

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LINKING ENTERPRISE DATA
KEY PRINCIPLES
> Data models and data storage don't need to be merged
> A shared and global identifier system
> Master data resides in source databases
> RDF as an interoperability model
FUNCTIONS OF THE LINKED DATA PORTAL
> Consume source data
> Align and link data entities
> Empower the system for new uses
> to rethink the organization’s data as a
unique, global information space

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THE DATA MODEL
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Work Was presented at
created
Mainly, art work from the museum
Also : musical work (Ircam)
Is reproduction of Event
Conference, exhibition…
Is about
Resource Is about
Something that is available as a med ia
(image, audio, vid eo, text)
Is recording of
Is reproduction of /
Is recording of
Is about Person
Artists, authors,
collectives of artists…
Document
Books, Archives
Collection
e.g. Graphic arts,
Donation from Nina Kandinsky…
Place
E.g. « Centre Pompidou »
Is about

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THE DATA MODEL
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Was presented at
Work created
Is reproduction of Event
Is about
Is about
Resource
Is recording of
Is reproduction of /
Is recording of
Is about Person
Is part of
Document Is located at
Collection
Place
Is about

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THE DATA MODEL
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Work Was presented at
created
Is reproduction of Event
Is about
Is about
Resource Is about
Is recording of
Is reproduction of /
Is recording of
Is about Person
Document
Collection
Place
Is about
Is located at

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CHALLENGES
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As the platform is intended to be our main website, there are
technical challenges :
> scalability and performance of the infrastructure
> daily batches updating the data
Another challenge is raising institutional interest for opening the
data.

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THANK YOU
CONTACT :
Emmanuelle Bermès
head of Multimedia services, Centre Pompidou
manue@figoblog.org / emmanuelle.bermes@centrepompidou.fr
twitter.com/figoblog / twitter.com/centrepompidou