Cultural institutions have the crucial goal of storing, managing and disseminating knowledge
about our culture to a worldwide audience of people. Museums, libraries, archives and other
vendors of cultural heritage information are currently in the process of exposing their data as
Linked Open Data (LOD) to encourage reuse of this information in semantic aware services
which utilize the synergy that can be achieved when combining and integrating complimentary
information resources. Linked Open Data is based on the the standards and formats
that have been developed for the Semantic Web, but even though we have the technological
framework, there are many challenges that must be solved to achieve true automatic integration
and interoperability between a potent ially very large number of loosely connected
information sources.
The main objective of this project is to support the process of integration and alignment
of heterogeneous, but related information sources within the area of cultural heritage. This
projec t aims at proposing a novel communication protocol to support the process of semantic
mappings in order to ease the interconnection between a large number of semantic data
providers. The performance of this protocol will be evaluated and will be compared.
The project includes partners from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and University of Lyon 1.