A few slides to introduce the cultuurlink tool developed by Spinque for Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. These were presented at the second CLARIAH LOD workshop.

1. Cultuurlink

2. SKOS: Simple Knowledge Organization
System
Represent Knowledge Organization
systems (KOS)
(thesauri, classification schemes,
subject heading systems and
taxonomies)
within the framework of the
Semantic Web.

3. VRT Thesaurus GTAA

4. ALIGNMENTVRT Thesaurus GTAA

5. ‘Happy alignments are all alike;
every unhappy alignment is unhappy
in its own way’
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, (with apologies to Tolstoy)

6. ~2011: Amalgame Alignment Platform
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http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/amalgame

7. http://cultuurlink.beeldengeluid.nl/
Semi-automatic SKOS vocabulary alignment service
Successor of EuropeanaConnect’s Amalgame
Users can upload vocabularies and match with
existing vocs.
Users can design, experiment, improve their
alignment strategy
Matching, selecting, excluding, sampling, evaluating

8. Example alignment strategy: Concepts

9. Example alignment strategy: Persons

10. CultuurLINK in
action: Rijksmuseum, MoMu
Fashion Museum
Antwerp and Museum Rotterdam
linking their fashion collections to
the Arts and Architecture
Thesaurus (AAT).

11. Test cultuurlink
http://tinyurl.com/paniekfile
http://cultuurlink.beeldengeluid.nl/