Linked Data for the Historic Environment (LD4HE)
Project aims
The purpose of the LD4HE project is to increase the potential for exchange and reuse of historic environment data. The project has the following primary aims and objectives:
- To create a mapping from mandatory OASIS fields to CIDOC-CRM.
- To create a simple means of converting an OASIS data export to a Linked Data compatible format.
- To determine criteria for establishing which records should be included in Linked Data export.
- To recommend potential for creation and usage of Linked Data.
Project scope
The LD4HE project scope is to create the capacity for mandatory OASIS metadata (see list of mandatory fields) to be exported in a Linked Data compatible format.This is mapping and export only, with no intention (at this stage) to make the output data publicly available (thus not Linked Open Data). There are no current plans for hosting the output data within a publicly available triple store.
The LD4HE project will allow questions such as the following examples to be answered accurately:
- How many reports have been produced with evidence of Roman archaeology from post-determinative excavation in Southwest England?
- How many research investigations occurred in England in a given year?
- How many geophysical surveys have been undertaken on a specific type of geology?
- How many reports are there which fit a specific theme within a research framework?