貴重書メタデータの設計図としての書誌オントロジーを適用したLinked Data

抄録

Purposes for digital archives have gradually changed not only browsing the valuable resources but also searching for academic researches. Current standard metadata sets for digital archives of cultural assets have had various difficulties for researchers to retrieve targets effectively. We proposed to construct a domain ontology for historical rare books by materializing from a standard formal ontology as a solution for the difficulties. The proposed ontology describes cultural heritages and historical rare books whose components, such as prefaces, are described as a separated entry. To show effectivenesses of the proposed ontology, we applied it a metadata set for a real collection of historical rare books. The metadata set is eventually converted into Linked Data format for publishing in the Web. As a result, both researchers and editors are intuitionally able to retrieve and describe a historical rare book as a set of components in terminologies of bookbinding. Those components are also accessible by Unified Resource Identier on the Web.