Re: [ANN] Cultural Japan (metadata portal) launched

Really great work ! I have been following your work for a lot of years 
from afar.

very very nice. I will be passing these links around.

Margaret Warren (with Imagesnippets)


On 8/1/2020 10:10 AM, KANZAKI Masahide wrote:
> Happy to announce the launch of Cultural Japan[1], an integrated
> portal to provide unified access to a million of Japanese cultural
> items around the world.
>
> Cultural Japan collects metadata of Japan related items from such open
> data as Metropolitan Museum, Cleveland Museum, MoMA, as well as APIs
> of Chicago, Harvard, VaM, Rijksmuseum,  Digital NZ, Trove, and
> Europeana, DPLA. It then converts those variety of data to Japan
> Search RDF schema[2] to align models and vocabularies. It also
> extracts metadata from IIIF manifests of some 50 institutions, and
> converts into the same RDF model[3].
>
> Names of Japanese creators are normalized as Japan Search names, with
> English labels as schema:name@en. Japan Search names are linked to LOD
> names via owl:sameAs.
>
> In addition to standard search interface[1], it provides SPARQL
> endpoint[4] and Snorql interface[5]. Three fourth of items have IIIF
> manifests (including dynamically generated ones). The search results
> are also available as IIIF collection.
>
> As an application, it accompanies the "Self Museum"[6], which
> generates a virtual 3D gallery from IIIF manifests or collections,
> where you can appreciate your favorite art works in your room.
>
> Have fun!
>
> on behalf of the Cultural Japan team.
>
> [1] https://cultural.jp/
> [2] https://www.kanzaki.com/works/ld/jpsearch/primer/
> [3] https://www.kanzaki.com/works/2020/pub/0603ife.html
> [4] https://ld.cultural.jp/sparql/
> [5] https://ld.cultural.jp/snorql/
> [6] https://self-museum.cultural.jp/
>

Received on Sunday, 2 August 2020 20:11:37 UTC