Cultural Heritage (CH) data is syntactically and semantically heterogeneous multilingual
semantically rich and highly interlinked. It is produced in a distributed open fashion by
museums libraries archives and media organizations as well as individual persons. Managing
publication of such richness and variety of content on the Web and at the same time supporting
distributed interoperable content creation processes poses challenges where traditional
publication approaches need to be re-thought. Application of the principles and technologies of
Linked Data and the Semantic Web is a new promising approach to address these problems. This
development is leading to the creation of large national and international CH portals such as
Europeana to large open data repositories such as the Linked Open Data Cloud and massive
publications of linked library data in the U.S. Europe and Asia. Cultural Heritage has become
one of the most successful application domains of Linked Data and Semantic Web
technologies.This book gives an overview on why when and how Linked (Open) Data and Semantic
Web technologies can be employed in practice in publishing CH collections and other content on
the Web. The text first motivates and presents a general semantic portal model and publishing
framework as a solution approach to distributed semantic content creation based on an ontology
infrastructure. On the Semantic Web such an infrastructure includes shared metadata models
ontologies and logical reasoning and is supported by shared ontology and other Web services
alleviating the use of the new technology and linked data in legacy cataloging systems. The
goal of all this is to provide layman users and researchers with new more intelligent and
usable Web applications that can be utilized by other Web applications too via well-defined
Application Programming Interfaces (API). At the same time it is possible to provide
publishing organizations with more cost-efficient solutions for content creation and
publication.This book is targeted to computer scientists museum curators librarians
archivists and other CH professionals interested in Linked Data and CH applications on the
Semantic Web. The text is focused on practice and applications making it suitable to students
researchers and practitioners developing Web services and applications of CH as well as to CH
managers willing to understand the technical issues and challenges involved in linked data
publication.Table of Contents: Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web Portal Model for
Collaborative CH Publishing Requirements for Publishing Linked Data Metadata Schemas
Domain Vocabularies and Ontologies Logic Rules for Cultural Heritage Cultural Content
Creation Semantic Services for Human and Machine Users Conclusions
