![]() ![]() This asset represents both a treasure to preserve and a challenge in showcasing it. The musée Saint-Raymond utilizes Wikimedia platforms since 2016 to publish and share its collections that cover a vast period of time, from protohistory to middle age, with a rich series of Roman sculptures from the Villa of Chiragan. In this paper, we will see the case history of the musée Saint-Raymond, the archaeological museum of Toulouse, France. A similar approach to open access for cultural heritage databases has been adopted in the US as well, where, at the government level, beginning in 2009, the Library of Congress converted its famous subject headings and authority names into Linked open data (LOD) through the Library of Congress Linked Open Data Service portal. An exhaustive, but not complete, list of open cultural projects can be found on the portal. In Europe a clear example comes from the large Europeana portal and data aggregator, while several European nations are developing data repositories. Even if open data are not common practice yet, more and more cases are spreading in which institutions open their assets not only for the digital use of their collections, but for the reuse of the data associated with them. Some governments follow this trend, and, among them, in France the “Loi pour une République numérique” enacted in 2016 makes it mandatory to freely share public data. In the last few years, there is a clear trend toward opening the data, and providing free access to information. ![]() Accessible and free to use online catalogues both protect and bring out archaeological collections and artefacts, while attracting a wide audience of people interested and willing to participate in sharing. The convergence of protection of cultural heritage and open tools adapted to cultural data has the potential of creating a vast self-sustained ecosystem. ![]()
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