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Atramhasis v0.7.0 released

A new version (0.7.0) of Atramhasis has been released. Atramhasis is an open-source, web-based SKOS editor. You can use it to browse SKOS vocabularies, thesauri, authority files, word lists, … Atramhasis comes with an admin interface you can use to add the concepts and collections of your vocabularies. To make integrating vocabularies with your other IT systems easy, all data in Atramhasis is exposed through a read an write REST webservice.

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We are the Hypermedia!

Within the Flemish Government, there is a central governing body that coordinates matters on Information and ICT policies. Under the umbrella of this body, several taskforces exist, one of them being the OSLO Datastandards taskforce. This taskforce creates standards, semantic models and tooling for Flemish government agencies and other connected partners. One of the projects that ran in 2018, was the creation of a Generic Hypermedia API standard, a set of guidelines and building blocks that aim to transform REST services into more Hypermedia driven services. This would make them more interoperable. The first version of this standard was approved on november 8, 2018 and contains three building blocks: language, CRUD and pagination.

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Flanders Heritage Geoportal: All Together Now!

Flanders Heritage has had a geoportal since 2013. Although it has grown and transformed over the years, the basic goals and the architectural design have remained largely unchanged.

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Welcome to the Ilucidare Playground

Flanders Heritage Agency is a government agency and scientific institution. We are responsible for architectural, archaeological, landscape and maritime heritage. Today we are present at the Ilucidare Playground: Cracking the future of heritage. We assimilate innovation to improve the preservation of heritage, to enhance decision-making, to support the management or to provide information to a broad public. To this end, we are mixing new technologies or new paradigms with our care and responsabilities for heritage. Today we focus on a few tangible results of this innovation driven approach that demonstrate how well heritage, technology and digitisation match.

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Running an Atramhasis demo site with Docker

Atramhasis is an online SKOS editor. It allows a user to create and edit an online thesaurus (What’s a thesaurus?) or vocabulary adhering to the SKOS specification through a simple web interface. This allows any user with access to a web browser to consult the thesauri and if so wanted AND authorised, to edit them.

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What’s a thesaurus?

We recently released a new version of Atramhasis (Atramhasis v0.6.0 released), our web based thesaurus editor. But what is a thesaurus and why would a heritage organisation want one?

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Atramhasis v0.6.0 released

A new version (0.6.0) of Atramhasis has been released. Atramhasis is an open-source, web-based SKOS editor. You can use it to browse SKOS vocabularies, thesauri, authority files, word lists, … Atramhasis comes with an admin interface you can use to add the concepts and collections of your vocabularies. To make integrating vocabularies with your other IT systems easy, all data in Atramhasis is exposed through a read an write REST webservice.

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Atramhasis v0.5.0 released

A new version (0.5.0) of Atramhasis has been released. Atramhasis is an open-source, web-based SKOS editor. You can use it to browse SKOS vocabularies, thesauri, authority files, word lists, … Atramhasis also comes with an admin interface you can use to add the concepts and collections of your vocabularies.

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