KLEKSI now complies with the DERA. The abbreviation DERA stands for Digital Heritage Reference Architecture and provides direction to collaborating parties, in this case to make heritage information more visible in the Digital Heritage Network. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) owns the DERA. In recent months, Sofco has worked hard on new functionalities that ensure that museums and heritage institutions that use KLEKSI comply with the DERA. The functionalities consist of Linked-Open-Data, a link with the Terms Network of NDE and the automatic generation of Persistent Identifiers linked to Handle.net. The challenge: to implement these functions in such a user-friendly way. Today the work has been completed, it is up to the people of NDE to determine whether KLEKSI meets the requirements of the DERA.Through an online meeting, Sofco presented the new functions to the people at NDE who designed and developed these functionalities. At the end of the presentation everyone was pleasantly surprised, in KLEKSI all functionalities as described in the DERA were implemented to full satisfaction. People were so enthusiastic that Sofco was invited to give a presentation to 120 museums and heritage institutions during a meeting in the Heineken Experience in Amsterdam and to show them how Linked-Open-Data was integrated in KLEKSI. A great opportunity for KLEKSI to be discovered by potential users.
