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Just how exciting is linked open heritage data, really? What’s the point – so what? Do normal people really care about unintelligible RDF data claiming to describe a rune-stone from Östergötland?
Information which is “open“ should be unfiltered, of high quality, and may be freely used and re-used by anyone. “Linked data“ is a standardised method for describing connections between tangible and intangible things and phenomena in such a way that how they relate to one another can be understood by machines.
So how does this apply to the information in databases held by cultural heritage organisations?