This book combines current research in open data practices in the heritage sector with technical step-by-step guides on how to work with heritage data for visualisation, mapping, and mining. The book begins with an overview of the extent of open heritage data, a thorough review of the current literature and original case studies from practitioners at Europeana, the Digital Public Library of America, fx. Rijksmuseum, the National Gallery of Denmark and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The second part of the book puts the theory into practice with a series of step-by-step guides that take the reader through creating, publishing, using and reusing open heritage data. The book covers: copyright and licensing for digitised and born-digital heritage material publishing different data types as open data (images, maps, structured data) finding open data with a guide to using APIs visualizing open data mapping open data mining open data the use of open data with examples of how to reuse, remix, hack and mashup open data.

Reference works, dictionaries

Library and information science in general

Library and information management

Library automation, information processing

Content and format exploration

Conservation and storage

Theory of computing, computing in general

Data management in computer systems

Database management softwares

Data Analysis

Linguistics in general, dictionaries

Further readings in linguistics

Museology

Business law

Reference works, dictionaries (charity campaign)

Library and information science in general (charity campaign)

Library and information management (charity campaign)

Library automation, information processing (charity campaign)

Content and format exploration (charity campaign)

Conservation and storage (charity campaign)

Theory of computing, computing in general (charity campaign)

Data management in computer systems (charity campaign)

Database management softwares (charity campaign)

Data Analysis (charity campaign)

Linguistics in general, dictionaries (charity campaign)

Further readings in linguistics (charity campaign)

Museology (charity campaign)

Business law (charity campaign)

Open Heritage Data

This book combines current research in open data practices in the heritage sector with technical step-by-step guides on how to work with heritage data for visualisation, mapping, and mining. The book begins with an overview of the extent of open heritage data.