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How about a discussion/workshop/presentation on open source tools for taxonomy development? On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Richard, Joel M <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Good afternoon, everyone. > > I am slated to give a talk in July at the SLA Annual Conference in Chicago > on the topic of Linked Open Data (LOD). The purpose of my email is to > solicit from you what concepts you think would be important to cover in the > talk. Generally speaking, I am focusing on the practical implementation of > a dataset in LOD. > > A lot of what I find on the web and see in presentation seem to be much in > the line of "What is linked data?" or "Here's a brief example of how linked > data works" or "This is why linked data is so awesome!" I find fewer (or > perhaps they are simply more obscure) examples of how exactly to create a > full-fledged dataset either from scratch or from an existing database that > has previously been locked up in a silo. > > So my question is, if you were a member of the audience at such a talk, > what specific things would you like to see covered? > > I already have some general ideas in my mind. They include: > > Here's some things that I am considering: > * A history of our own experience with respect to our data > * Conversion to linked data from existing data sets > * Selection of Ontologies / Vocabularies > * Strategy and challenges for linking out to others > * Storage considerations (triplestores, rdbms, etc) > * Content Management Systems / RDFa / Drupal > > Any input would be greatly appreciated. And if you're planning on being at > SLA, come over and say Hi! > > Thanks! > --Joel > > > Joel Richard > Lead Web Developer, Web Services Department > Smithsonian Institution Libraries | http://www.sil.si.edu/ > (202) 633-1706 | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> >