How can you find information in heterogeneous sources, available at different locations and managed by different owners? In the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE) we are working on a distributed solution for this: the Network of Terms. We encourage our institutions to assign standardized terms to their digital heritage. Terms are descriptions of concepts or entities and make heritage easier to find for anyone interested in it. Yet it is quite a challenge for institutions to use terms. For example, because the sources in which the terms are managed — such as thesauri and reference lists — have different API protocols and data models. The Network of Terms removes these barriers. It is a new service that searches Linked Data sources in a federative way. It has a unified API that institutions can query. It then searches in the sources for matching terms – real time, with SPARQL. We recently launched the service, ready for use by hundreds of institutions across the country. We would like to tell you more about it in our presentation.
NDE - Dutch Digital Heritage Network
https://netwerkdigitaalerfgoed.nl/en/
Sjors de Valk works at the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE). He designs and develops Linked Data services that allow institutions to share and link their digital heritage and that make it easier for users to find.
