Cultural heritage (CH) contents are typically strongly interlinked, but published in
heterogeneous, distributed local data silos, making it difficult to utilize the data on a global …

This paper presents the CultureSampo system from the viewpoint of publishing
heterogeneous linked data as a service. Discussed are the problems of converting legacy …

Manuscripts are a crucial form of evidence for research into all aspects of premodern
European history and culture, and there are numerous databases devoted to describing …

New technologies will underpin the future generation of library catalogues. To facilitate their
role providing information, serving users, and fulfilling their mission as cultural heritage and …

This paper presents the Map** Manuscript Migrations (MMM) system in use for modeling,
aggregating, publishing, and studying heterogeneous, distributed premodern manuscript …

BookSampo is a semantic portal in use, covering metadata about practically all Finnish
fiction literature of Finnish public libraries on a work level. The system introduces a variety of …

Commonly known as FRBRoo, this model is closely related to IFLA's FRBR family of
conceptual models. It is the object-oriented version of these models. FRBRoo version 1 was …

Abstract The BookSampo Linked Data portal was deployed in 2011 by the Finnish Public
Libraries and has today nearly 2 million annual users. Its Linked Data covers virtually all …

This paper summarizes a research program that focuses on how catalogers, other cultural
heritage information workers, web/Semantic Web technologists, and the general public …

Abstract The Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), an emerging
model in the bibliographic domain, provide interesting possibilities in terms of cataloguing …