Geotemporal Semantics in the context of the Dutch project Heritage & Location. Towards a geotemporal semantic infrastructure for Dutch cultural heritage data. Presentation for the W3C conference Linking Geospatial Data, 5­-6 March 2014, London. www.erfgoedenlocatie.nl www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd

1. Geotemporal semantics
Putting time and space to good use
in Dutch Heritage
Rein.vantveer@den.nl
www.erfgoedenlocatie.nl

2. The national context of DEN
DEN Foundation
Digital Heritage Netherlands
• supports archives, museums and other heritage
institutions to improve their digital strategies
• core mission: sharing knowledge of and experiences
with ICT
• encourages institutions to invest in open technology,
implement ICT-standards and use tools that contribute
to sustainable information services
DEN is sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs and Science.

3. Project: Heritage & Location
3 Applications
Apps
Sites
Sites
Site
e-services
Apps
Sites
External services
Enrichment & semantics
2 Semantics
Vocabularies & Ontologies
1 Data &
Aggregation
X
External vocabs
Intermediaries
Europeana
Y
Sources
Archives
AV
Libraries
Museum
s
Academic
data
Monuments &
Archaeology

4. The Geo-semantic Marriage
Semantics
Geospatial
SPARQL,
Reasoning!
WFS filtering,
Spatial Joins!
URI’s, multiple
sources
Sturdy data
Generic
interoperability?
Well-integrated
WxS interfaces?
Graphs
Features
Facetting, statistics
Nice mapping tools

5. Heritage & Location GeoSPARQL-demo:
http://erfgeo.nl/geosparql/geosparql-demo.html

6. Challenges of geotemporal semantics
Towards a geotemporal semantic infrastructure
for Dutch cultural historical data
1. What spatial rdf solution should we choose?
2. Is GeoJSON-LD the way to go?