JISC

OpenART, a partnership between the University of York, the Tate and technical partners, Acuity Unlimited, will design and expose linked open data for an important research dataset entitled "The London Art World 1660-1735", created as part of the AHRC funded Court, Country, City: British Art 1660 – 1735 project. Drawing on metadata about artists, places and sales from a defined period of art history scholarship, the dataset offers a complete picture of the London art world during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Furthermore, links drawn to the Tate collection and the incorporation of collection metadata will allow exploration of works in their contemporary locations. A history of working together, domain expertise, and an existing technological platform will help this short project run smoothly. OpenART will re-use existing authorities and vocabularies, ontologies, metadata application profiles and other services and data sources identified in the course of the project to normalise and structure the metadata and will complete the process of modelling and exposing a defined dataset as open metadata. The process will be designed to be scalable to much richer and more varied datasets, both at York, Tate and beyond. OpenART‟s output will be threefold: 1) a significant scholarly dataset exposed as open metadata; 2) enhanced resource discovery for cultural metadata; and 3) re-usable lessons and processes for the exposure of open metadata by cultural institutions.