{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BlogPosting","@id":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2015\/06\/09\/is-there-still-a-case-for-aggregations-of-cultural-data\/#BlogPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2015\/06\/09\/is-there-still-a-case-for-aggregations-of-cultural-data\/","headline":"Is There Still a Case for Aggregations of Cultural Data","name":"Is There Still a Case for Aggregations of Cultural Data","description":"A bit of a profound question \u2013 triggered by a guest post on Museums Computer Group by Nick Poole CEO of The Collections Trust about Culture Grid and an overview of recent announcements about it. Broadly the changes are that: The Culture Grid closed to \u2018new accessions\u2019 (ie. new collections of metadata) on the 30th April The existing index and API will continue to operate in order to ensure legacy support Museums, galleries, libraries and archives wishing to contribute material to Europeana can still do so via the \u2018dark aggregator\u2019, which the Collections Trust will continue to fund Interested parties <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2015\/06\/09\/is-there-still-a-case-for-aggregations-of-cultural-data\/\">...<\/a><\/span>","datePublished":"2015-06-09","dateModified":"2015-06-09","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/author\/richard-wallis\/#Person","name":"Richard Wallis","url":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/author\/richard-wallis\/","identifier":1,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dfc30377fdeb159bbd38ccbec398d54c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/dfc30377fdeb159bbd38ccbec398d54c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Data Liberate","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/dev.dataliberate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Data_Liberate_Logo-200.png","url":"https:\/\/dev.dataliberate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Data_Liberate_Logo-200.png","width":600,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Culture_Grid.jpg","url":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Culture_Grid.jpg","height":64,"width":244},"url":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2015\/06\/09\/is-there-still-a-case-for-aggregations-of-cultural-data\/","commentCount":"8","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https:\/\/dataliberate.com\/2015\/06\/09\/is-there-still-a-case-for-aggregations-of-cultural-data\/#Comment1","dateCreated":"2015-06-09 16:14:44","description":"I find the most compelling motivation for aggregation of cultural heritage resources is when that process creates a platform that allows the collections to be used in new ways. The APIs provided by DPLA and Europeana, for example, make it much easier for small institutions to have their data available via an API. It also makes it much easier for those who want to use the collections in novel ways to do so, and to use much larger sets of data, rather than learning everyone's local API schema.","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Chad Nelson","url":""}}],"about":["Data Publishing","Google","Linked Data","Local Government","Open Data","schema.org","WorldCat"],"wordCount":1960,"keywords":["Aggrigation","Culture Graph","Metadata","schema.org"]}