Abstract: Enriching Cultural Heritage Data for Research – the Quest for Interoperability in Audiovisual Archives

We first describe the conversion of cultural heritage data to linked data, using the Sound and Vision archive as a specific case. We describe how we handle the heterogeneity problem by delivering different views on our linked data for different use cases. For archives that contain copyrighted material, filtering of sensitive information and eventual delivery of data under the applicable license is essential. We explain how we ensured this when publishing the data. We outline ongoing work to make the linked data findable, e.g., by using the data set registry of the NDE digital cultural heritage network.

Second, we describe how we exploit Linked Data in a research
environment for cultural heritage researchers without the technical
skills to “program with data”. We present the use case of researchers interested in persons, including the problems such researchers currently face in finding relevant search results for persons in search tools such as the Media Suite.