Linked open data representation of historical heritage of Bangladesh

The historical heritage is a vast domain that generates distributed and heterogeneous data repositories in the existing World Wide Web (WWW). The integration of these heterogeneous data repositories and retrieving data from WWW using traditional search engine is a challenging task. In this regard, our research is to demonstrate the feasibility of semantic web technology for creating machine understandable description of entities associated with the creation and maintenance of historical heritage of Bangladesh. Moreover, our proposed approach uses the essence of semantic knowledge base composed of real historical heritage data that are interlinked with data from the Geo-Bangladesh, a machine understandable Linked Open Data (LOD) repository of geographic related data to the administrative structure of Bangladesh and retrieve specific information using semantic search tools like SPARQL. We perform a number of experiments with SPARQL to retrieve and inference specific information that shows usefulness of our proposed Linked Open Data on historical heritage of Bangladesh.