Good question. I’ll report what I found, rather than advising. So I went there when you published that email, looking for stuff to put in my sameas.org site. I tried exploring, and when I went to Browse I only found a few things, so wasn’t encouraged :-) (And, as an aside, Advanced Search didn’t seem to do anything, and the search links at the bottom were not links.) So I decided that it wasn’t really mature enough to make it worth the effort (yet?), even though there should be massive scope for linkage eventually.
But the real problem was that I couldn’t find any Linked Data, or even an RDF store. The URIs you use are not very Cool URIs, and I tried to see if there was RDF at the end of them by doing Content Negotiation, but there wasn’t. I am thinking of things like http://tundra.csd.sc.edu/rol/view-person.php?id=291 So I went away :-) For people like me, you could put something about how to see the RDF in an About page (or if it is there, make it easier to find). You only get one chance to snare people on the web, after all. Of course as Alfredo says, for spidering search engines, and it would have helped me too, you need robots.txt (which I couldn’t find either), sitemap, sitemap.xml, voiD description. Good luck! Hugh On 28 Jan 2014, at 04:12, WILDER, COLIN <[email protected]> wrote: > Another question to you very helpful people– > > <and apologies again for semi cross-posting> > > Our LOD working group is having trouble publishing our data (see email below) > in RDF form. Our programmer, a master’s student, who is working under the > supervision of myself and a computer science professor, has mapped sample > data into RDF, has the triplestore on a D2RQ server (software) on our server > and has set up a SPARQL end-point on the latter. But he has been unsuccessful > so far getting 3 candidate semantic web search engines (Falcons, Swoogle and > Sindice) to be able to find our data when he puts a test query in to them. > He has tried communicating with the people who run these, but to little > avail. Any suggestions about sources of information, pointers, best practices > for this actual process of publishing LOD? Or, if you know of problems with > any of those three search engines and would suggest a different candidate, > that would be great too. > > Thanks again, > > Colin Wilder > > > From: WILDER, COLIN [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:51 AM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: LOD for historical humanities information about people and texts > > To the many people who have kindly responded to my recent email: > > Thanks for your suggestions and clarifying questions. To explain a bit > better, we have a data curation platform called RL, which is a large, complex > web-based MySQL database designed for users to be able to simply input, store > and share data about social and textual networks with each other, or to share > it globally in RL’s data commons. The data involved are individual data > items, such as info about one person’s name, age, a book title, a specific > social relationship, etc. The entity types (in the ordinary-language sense of > actors and objects, not in the database tabular sense) can be seen > athttp://tundra.csd.sc.edu/rol/browse.php. The data commons in RL is > basically a subset of user data that users have elected (irrevocably) to > share with all other users of the system. NB there is a lot of dummy data in > the data commons right now because of testing. > > We are designing an expansion of RL’s functionality so as to publish data > from the data commons as LOD, so I am doing some preliminary work to assess > feasibility and fit by matching up our entity types with RDFvocabularies. > Here is what I have so far. First are the entity(ies) and relationships, > followed by the appropriate vocabularies: > > 1. Persons, social relations: FOAF, BIO. The “Catalogus Professorum > Lipsiensis” or CPL(http://svn.aksw.org/papers/2010/ISWC_CP/public.pdf) looks > enormously useful for connecting academics (people), their relations and > their books. But, I cannot seem to get any info page or specification page > to load, making me worry that it’s dead. > 2. Membership in organizations: ORG > 3. Enrollment in an academic course (e.g. a lecture course): ??? maybe > use a RDF container or RDF collection type of resource to list all students > enrolled in a certain course? > 4. Travel: ??? We are trying to encode trips, in which one or more > people leave one place at one time and arrive at another place at another > time. This thus links people, places and times. > 5. Texts – i.e. old editions of books and manuscripts: Dublin Core, > Bibframe. Use FRBR to distinguish sub- and pre-edition levels of manuscripts, > works and ideas. > 6. Relationship among texts, including intertexts and citations: > Bibliographic ontology (Bibo) > 7. Collections of texts in historical library catalogs, e.g. from > centuries ago: the DC Collection AP. Maybe also the Bibliographic Reference > Ontology (BiRO)? > > My understanding is that the Linked Open Vocabulary cloud (LOV) is a useful > tool for finding relevant ontologies. The Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets > (VoID) seems more like underlying infrastructure – the tool to translate and > link data items in a dataset written in one vocabulary to data items in a set > written in another. > > Any further help or clarifications are much appreciated. Thanks again– > > Colin > > > ---------------- > Dr. Colin F. Wilder > Associate Director > Center for Digital Humanities (website; projects page) > Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina > 1322 Greene St., Columbia, SC 29208 > Phones: office (803) 777-2810 & mobile (603) 831-3998 > Emails: [email protected] & [email protected] > open office hours (use week view in upper right) > frango ut patefaciam -- Hugh Glaser 20 Portchester Rise Eastleigh SO50 4QS Mobile: +44 75 9533 4155, Home: +44 23 8061 5652
