“The networking project LOD-ISNI, funded by BELSPO, aims at strengthening the long-term cooperation with (inter)national partners, and at promoting the use of Linked Open Data and international standards for disclosing and valorising cultural heritage materials.”

“Despite the many policies and platforms to support the move to Open Data, the public availability of cultural heritage data is still limited and dispersed. Implementing linked open data techniques and international standards like ISNI (International Standard Name Identifier) makes cultural heritage data more FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable), provides an opportunity to efficiently bring together currently siloed information, and enables synergies with other organisations across different domains, repositories, collections and systems.”

“Gathering key actors to discuss state-of-the-art solutions and lessons learned, this conference serves a twofold purpose:

• empower the cultural heritage sector, as well as research institutions and book professionals in their digital transformation
• develop a long-lasting network that will enhance international and cross domain collaboration.”

“The upcoming conference will address the following topics:

• Linked (Open) Data
• International standards, e.g. ISNI
• FAIR data and cultural heritage
• Cooperative Cataloguing
• Digital data flows, e.g. between publishers and libraries
• Cross domain research
• Collections as data”

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Aaron Bradley

Aaron Bradley is Senior Structured Content Architect at Telus Digital, and chief cook and bottle washer at The Graph Lounge.

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