Gotta Catch'em All: From Data Silos to a Knowledge Graph

Diverse research questions, perspectives, standards and formats across culture subject areas have led to the emergence of numerous data silos. NFDI4Culture seeks to overcome this by building a unified KG, facilitating enhanced discoverability and interoperability of distributed and heterogeneous research data. This paper outlines a pipeline for accessing and harvesting cultural heritage meta data from legacy repositories, it discusses the development of a lightweight ontology to facilitate interoperability.