Hi Eric,
while I also think this is not rocket surgery, I'd like to point out that
trial (and potentially error) as suggested by your "go back to step #1"
instructions is not a good solution to coming up with URIs. I think once
published - i.e. put on a webserver - you should be able to keep the URIs
in your RDF persistent. Otherwise you are polluting the Semantic Web with
dead links and make it hard for aggregators to find out whether the data
they harvested is still valid.
So while iterative approaches are pragmatic and often work out well, for
the particular issue of coming up with URIs I'd recommend spending as much
thought before publishing as you can spend.
best
robert



On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> 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
>