Robert Sanderson
Senior Director for Digital Cultural Heritage at Yale University, principal architect for Yale’s cross-collection discovery system LUX, and an editor for Linked Art and IIIF specifications with extensive experience in knowledge graphs, ontology design, and cultural heritage data.
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Mar 16, 2026 • 37min
Robert Sanderson: Building Yale’s Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graph – Episode 46
Robert Sanderson, Senior Director for Digital Cultural Heritage at Yale and architect of the LUX discovery system. He discusses using compact knowledge graph and ontology patterns across Yale’s millions of artifacts. Topics include AI and LLMs speeding graph construction, a three-billion-triple KG with a tiny core ontology, handling non-object collection data, reconciling lesser-known people, and extensibility for new domains.
