KulturNav is a Norwegian

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-based software service, allowing users to create, manage and distribute name authorities and terminology, focusing on the needs of

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make th ...

s and other

cultural heritage Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by soc ...

institutions. The software is developed by KulturIT ANS and the development project is funded by the Arts Council Norway. KulturNav is designed to enhance access to heritage information in archives, libraries and museums, working across institutions with common metadata. Thus many institutions can collaborate to build up a list of standard naming and terminology. The metadata is published as

linked open data In computing, linked data (often capitalized as Linked Data) is structured data which is interlinked with other data so it becomes more useful through semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but r ...

(LOD), which can be linked further against other LOD resources. The

application programming interface An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how ...

(API) currently supports HTTP GET requests to read data. API calls are currently not authenticated or authorized. This means that the system returns only published content that is readable by any user. The system was developed within Play Framework together with

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and

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. The company KulturIT, launched in 2013, is owned by five Norwegian and one Swedish museum. It is a

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organisation with all surplus going to development. The website was launched on 20 January 2015''Seminar Lansering av KulturNav'' (Launch seminar)
, Arts Council Norway and is currently being used by approximately 130 museums in Norway,

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic countries, Nordic c ...

and

Åland Åland ( fi, Ahvenanmaa: ; ; ) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland since 1920 by a decision of the League of Nations. It is the smallest region of Finland by area and population, with a size of 1,580 km2, and a populat ...

.Digisam, "KulturNav" (PowerPoint presentation)
/ref> In March 2015 the Swedish national register of photography was in the process of being transferred to the KulturNav site. A register of Swedish architects is also available through Kulturnav.Arkdes (Skeppsholmen Architecture and Design Centre)

References

External links

KulturNav site
{{Authority control Library cataloging and classification Identifiers Metadata Controlled vocabularies