Version 0.7.0 of Atramhasis, our open-source, web-based SKOS editor, is out.

We don't always think about it, but web pages move too. Websites, databases and other information systems aren't static: they get built at a particular point in time, with particular expectations, on particular technology. In an ideal world a URL never changes — Cool URIs don't change, as the saying goes. In practice, something always changes: cool URIs don't change, real ones do. Deal with it. (For this post, feel free to read URI and URL as synonyms.)

Within the Flemish Government, a central body coordinates policy on Information and ICT. Under its umbrella, several taskforces operate, including the OSLO Datastandards taskforce, which develops standards, semantic models and tooling for Flemish government agencies and partners. One of its 2018 projects was a Generic Hypermedia API standard — guidelines and building blocks to make REST services more hypermedia-driven and therefore more interoperable. Its first version, approved on November 8, 2018, covers three building blocks: language, CRUD and pagination.

Flanders Heritage has run a geoportal since 2013. It's grown and changed a lot since then, but its basic goals and architecture have stayed largely the same.

Flanders Heritage Agency is a government agency and scientific institution responsible for architectural, archaeological, landscape and maritime heritage. Today we're taking part in the Ilucidare Playground: Cracking the future of heritage. We bring new technologies and paradigms together with our responsibility for heritage, to improve preservation, support decision-making and management, and inform the public. Here are a few concrete results of that innovation-driven approach.

We've talked a lot recently about the new inventory (Ten years of the inventory), but in 2019 we also launched a new image database ("beeldbank"). It replaces both an old module of the inventory and VIOE's earlier image database, and now holds around 277,000 images, most of which can be freely reused as long as you follow the terms of reuse. Today we explain how to make the most of its search functions.

On May 13 we launched a brand new Flanders Heritage Inventory, with five datasets: heritage objects, designation objects, people, themes and events. Heritage objects and designation objects already covered the core of the inventory; this time we look at the three supporting datasets.

Since May 13, a brand new inventory has been live at https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be. It looks very different, but anyone who knew the previous version will recognise a lot: the data is still the same heritage Flanders is rich in. Behind the scenes, though, plenty changed — the underlying technology was rewritten from scratch. Today we look back at ten years of technological evolution behind the inventory.

Since May 13, a brand new inventory has been live at https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be. Last time (From searching to finding on the new inventory) we covered some general principles; today we dig into full-text search. We use heritage objects as our example, but our other modules support the same syntax.

On May 13 we launched a brand new Flanders Heritage Inventory. Anyone who has used it will have noticed five datasets: heritage objects (erfgoedobjecten), designation objects (aanduidingsobjecten), people, themes and events. Heritage and designation objects form the core of the inventory database; the other three datasets are covered in a later post.