Entries by Beat Estermann

April-May: Special Issue “Shaping a Sustainable Digital World”

The digital transformation our society is currently undergoing affects many areas of public and private life. Technological progress has great potential for improving living conditions, but entails also a number of risks. In the light of other megatrends, such as climate change – and the associated negative consequences for people and the environment – it […]

Basic registers and standards data as precursors for Linked Data

Base registers are central components of a Linked Data ecosystem. Together with commonly used data models or ontologies, they ensure that data sets can be linked with each other even across organisational boundaries. Without them, Linked Data would not be possible. Based on an ongoing project that aims to advance the publication of Linked Open […]

Building a Linked Open Data Ecosystem for the Performing Arts

Over the past six months, the BFH Institute for Public Sector Transformation has had the pleasure to accompany the Canadian Arts Presenting Association‘s Linked Digital Future Initiative , which intends to leverage the potential of linked open data in the area of the performing arts. At the difference of earlier projects we have been involved […]

An international Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions (Part 2*)

Heritage institutions are places in which works of art, historical records, and other objects of cultural or scientific interest are sheltered and made accessible to the public.  The equivalent of that in the digital world, is already taking shape, through digitization and sharing of digital-born or digitized objects on online platforms. In this second part, we […]

An International Knowledge Base for all Heritage Institutions (Part 1*)

Heritage institutions are places in which works of art, historical records, and other objects of cultural or scientific interest are sheltered and made accessible to the public. The equivalent of that in the digital world, is already taking shape, through digitization and sharing of digital-born or digitized objects on online platforms. In this article we […]

The central role of base registers and standards data in breaking data silos

Base registers or standards data are central components of a Linked Data ecosystem. Together with jointly used data models or ontologies, they ensure that data sets can be linked across organisational boundaries. Without them, Linked Data would not be possible This article explains what basic registers or standards data are and shows why it makes […]