I think you’ve hit the nail on the head here, Karen. I would just add, or maybe reassure, that this does not necessarily require rethinking your existing metadata but how to translate that existing metadata into a linked data environment. Though this might seem like a pain, in many cases it will actually inspire you to go back and improve/increase the value of that existing metadata.
This is definitely looking awesome, Eric! Aaron On Nov 19, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Karen Coyle <li...@kcoyle.net> wrote: > 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/ >> >> -- >> Eric Lease Morgan >> University of Notre Dame > > -- > Karen Coyle > kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net > m: 1-510-435-8234 > skype: kcoylenet
