Eric, I think this skips a step - which is the design step in which you
create a domain model that uses linked data as its basis. RDF is not a
serialization; it actually may require you to re-think the basic
structure of your metadata. The reason for that is that it provides
capabilities that record-based data models do not. Rather than starting
with current metadata, you need to take a step back and ask: what does
my information world look like as linked data?
I repeat: RDF is NOT A SERIALIZATION.
kc
On 11/19/13 5:04 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
I believe participating in the Semantic Web and providing content via the principles of
linked data is not "rocket surgery", especially for cultural heritage
institutions -- libraries, archives, and museums. Here is a simple recipe for their
participation:
1. use existing metadata standards (MARC, EAD, etc.) to describe
collections
2. use any number of existing tools to convert the metadata to
HTML, and save the HTML on a Web server
3. use any number of existing tools to convert the metadata to
RDF/XML (or some other "serialization" of RDF), and save the
RDF/XML on a Web server
4. rest, congratulate yourself, and share your experience with
others in your domain
5. after the first time though, go back to Step #1, but this time
work with other people inside your domain making sure you use as
many of the same URIs as possible
6. after the second time through, go back to Step #1, but this
time supplement access to your linked data with a triple store,
thus supporting search
7. after the third time through, go back to Step #1, but this
time use any number of existing tools to expose the content in
your other information systems (relational databases, OAI-PMH
data repositories, etc.)
8. for dessert, cogitate ways to exploit the linked data in your
domain to discover new and additional relationships between URIs,
and thus make the Semantic Web more of a reality
What do you think?
I am in the process of writing a guidebook on the topic of linked data and
archives. In the guidebook I will elaborate on this recipe and provide
instructions for its implementation. [1]
[1] guidebook - http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/
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University of Notre Dame
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