Ontological Data Sharing of Open Government Data for Data Curation

The purpose of this study is to inform ontological data-sharing practices in the cultural heritage community by using open government data for data curation. Open government data have grown rapidly to enhance civic engagement and the transparency of governmental authorities in many parts of the world. We used a mixed methods approach, including co-word analysis of a population of open government data followed by qualitative analysis of five carefully selected records mapped using the CIDOC CRM. A final step was to use FRBRoo, an extension of the CIDOC CRM, to map the instantiation of data records in a typical data-sharing scenario.