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Licences, Credits, and AI Attribution

Project

Linked Open Exhibition is a prototype pipeline for publishing art exhibition data as Linked Open Data (LOD), developed with students of the Bachelor of Arts Information Management at Hochschule Hannover.

Licences

Project content

All original content in this repository (code, documentation, notebooks, website) is released under:

CC BY-SA 4.0 — Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

DNB metadata

All bibliographic metadata retrieved from the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) SRU interface is released under:

CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication)

Source: dnb.de — Metadatendienste
The SRU interface is freely accessible without registration.

Cover images

Cover images retrieved via the DNB catalogue enrichment API are supplied by publishers and are not covered by the CC0 licence. They are used within this project solely for educational, non-commercial identification purposes and are not redistributed in this repository. Always verify image rights before reuse.

AI Attribution

This project was developed with the assistance of GitHub Copilot using the Claude Sonnet 4.6 model (April 2026).

AI assistance was used for: - Code generation (Python notebooks, SPARQL queries) - Documentation drafting - Data model design and planning - Glossary creation

All AI-generated outputs were reviewed and edited by the project team before use.

Credits

Role Name Affiliation
Project lead Simon Worthington TIB — Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology
Course supervisor Prof. Ina Blümel Hochschule Hannover
Data model reference Lozana Rossenova, Lucia Sohmen, Paul Duchesne NFDI4Culture / WB4R
Funder NFDI4Culture —

Technical stack

Tool Purpose
Quarto Website rendering
wikibaseintegrator Wikibase API client
mwclient MediaWiki API client
python-dotenv Credential management
DNB SRU API Bibliographic data source
Wikibase Knowledge base platform
GitHub Pages Website hosting