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:
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/)
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