British Museum RDF Data

Description

• Expressed using BM Mapping
• Uses the BM Thesauri
• SPARQL endpoint (old mapping, IntelliDimension over MS SQL Server): http://collection.britishmuseum.org/
• SPARQL endpoint (new mapping, still IntelliDimension pending OWLIM deployment): http://84.40.1.27/Sparql/
• BM Collections Online (BM COL):
  • old search interface: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx
  • new (beta) search interface: http://www.britishmuseum.org/system_pages/beta_collection_introduction/beta_collection_search_results.aspx
  • add a "search engine" to your browser (one of the options below), and you can search by codexid by typing "bm codexid" in the address bar:

    name	key	URL
    [bm] BM old	bm	http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_details.aspx?partid=1&objectid=%s
    [bm] BM new	bm	http://www.britishmuseum.org/system_pages/beta_collection_introduction/beta_collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=%s&partId=1

Obsolete

• Asia_0.rdf Egypt_Sudan_0.rdf GreekAndRoman_0.rdf MiddleEast_0.rdf object_AOA_0.rdf: 4 RDF files comprising 112Mb
• Counting the number of museum objects
• BM-object-URIs.txt: extracted museum object URIs (eg http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/object/EAF108665)
• MadeIn.txt: Exploring "Made In" places (only 3062 or 22% of all objects!)
• ObjectType.txt: Exploring object types (15778)
  • more than 100% because some have two types, eg "jug" and "Gulpash"; "bottle" and "medicine-bottle"
  • ObjectType-vessel.txt: some vessel types, including thesaurus URI (http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/thesauri/)