During this webinar, we will take you into the world of open cultural data and answer your most pressing questions.

Sam Donvil (meemoo), Sofie Teugels (Design Museum Gent) and Olivier Van D'huynslager (Design Museum Gent) will take you into the world of open cultural data and answer your most pressing questions: Why is it useful to open up cultural data? Why do we use linked open data in the Collections of Ghent? Why do we focus on linking digital collections between institutions? And why should open data be FAIR (findable, accessible, exchangeable and reusable)?

The Collections of Ghent has the ambition to digitise 100,000 heritage objects. At present, digital collections too often remain locked up within the walls of institutions. To solve this problem we use linked open data. In the linked data cloud, heritage objects all over the world can be linked to other collections or persons. In this way, numerous new possibilities arise and the potential added value of digitised heritage only increases.

To stimulate the (re)use of open cultural data, the Cultural Data Lab is one of the core activities of our project. This open space is meant for everyone who wants to experiment or learn more about digitised cultural heritage.

For whom?

No prior knowledge is required. The Cultural Data Lab is for everyone who wants to work at the intersection of culture, data and technology: people working in a heritage institution, managing collections, re-using open cultural data or simply interested in (digital) heritage,

Beware, this webinar will be in Dutch.