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For example, a provider could create an instance of an edm:Agent class and instead of simply providing the text string “ William Shakespeare” as dc:creator, could provide the link (URI) to Shakespeare in an authority file and enable the use of the rich related data in that source(multi-‐lingual lingual variations of the name, dates and places of birth, death etc.) Similarly for Places, Timespans and Concept. Europeana can use such URIs to fetch further information from those external resources if they are available as linked open data. This is therefore the main way in which we can carry out enrichment on the data: by adding details that may not already exist in the provided data.
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