Somewhere to discuss and provide feedback on the British Museum Collections endpoint (listed at Museum API).
At the #pelagios meeting and on twitter a set of anti-patterns for data services was suggested. I'm just dumping the points here as I think they give a check list for us to work against in terms of collecting together valuable information - I guess an FAQ starter pack
Anti-patterns
- homepages that don't say where data can be found
- not providing info on licences
- not providing info on RDF syntaxes
- not providing egs of query construction
- not providing easy way to get at term lists
- no html browsing
- complex data models
License
The British Museum have applied their own Open Data license to the data available via http://collection.britishmuseum.org/, the details of the license are at http://collection.britishmuseum.org/Licensing. Allows re-use, with attribution.
Comments (4)
Alexander Dutton said
at 4:06 pm on Dec 1, 2011
Endpoint requires a query parameter called "Query". I think this needs to be lower-case, as per http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/#query-operation
Owen Stephens said
at 5:14 pm on Dec 1, 2011
Problem with http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/thesauri/x17904 returning no information, although referenced by many records as a place (I think it is Egypt or related to Egypt). Reported to BM 16/11/2011
Owen Stephens said
at 2:10 pm on Dec 5, 2011
I've blogged my experiences exploring the BM data set http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2011/12/experimenting-with-british-museum-data/
Owen Stephens said
at 2:13 pm on Dec 5, 2011
There is a limit to the amount of data the SPARQL endpoint can return without throwing an error. It isn't clear what the limit is, but I'm guessing it is something about the overall size of the response to the SPARQL query. For example:
SELECT * WHERE
{
?s ?p ?o
}
You can retrieve only 123 results before you get an error, while using
SELECT ?s WHERE
{
?s ?p ?o
}
You can retrieve over 300 results
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