Generating cultural heritage metadata as linked open data

This paper propose a metadata schema to preserve the semantics of cultural heritage (CH) objects. A widely used standard of CH metadata is already provide by CIDOC-CRM which has been approved as an ISO 21127 in 2006. However, mapping CH attributes to CIDOC-CRM entities needs to be done carefully since the metadata could be published as open data. In order to enrich the spatial information of CH objects, we linked the metadata with geographic features in open geographic dataset Geonames. In the experiment results, the metadata and open linked data seems to be successfully implemented and can be used to solve more specific query about CH objects relates to their spatio-temporal relationships