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I'll implement your linked data specifications into EADitor as soon as they're ready. In fact, I began implementing Aaron Rubinstein's hybrid arch/dc ontology (http://gslis.simmons.edu/archival/arch/index.html) a few days ago. Ethan On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Stephen Marks <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Hi Eric-- > > Good luck! I'll be very interested to see how this shapes up. > > Best, > > Steve > > > > On Aug-12-2013 9:10 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > >> This is the tiniest of introductions as a person who will be writing a >> text called Linked Archival Metadata: A Guidebook. The Guidebook will be >> the product of LiAM [0], and from the prospectus [1], the purpose of the >> Guidebook is to: >> >> provide archivists with an overview of the current linked data >> landscape, define basic concepts, identify practical strategies >> for adoption, and emphasize the tangible payoffs for archives >> implementing linked data. It will focus on clarifying why >> archives and archival users can benefit from linked data and will >> identify a graduated approach to applying linked data methods to >> archival description. >> >> To these ends I plan to write towards three audiences: 1) the layman who >> knows nothing about linked data, 2) the archivist who wants to make their >> content available as linked data but does not know how, and 3) the computer >> technologist who knows how to make linked data accessible but does not know >> about archival practices. >> >> Personally, I have been dabbling on and off with linked data and the >> Semantic Web for a number of years. I have also been deeply involved with a >> project called the Catholic Research Resources Alliance [2] whose content >> mostly comes from archives. I hope to marry these two sets of experiences >> into something that will be useful to cultural heritage institutions, >> especially archives. >> >> The Guidebook is intended to be manifested in both book (PDF) and wiki >> forms. The work begins now and is expected to be completed by March 2014. >> On my mark. Get set. Go. Wish me luck, and let’s see if we can build some >> community. >> >> [0] LiAM - http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/ >> [1] prospectus - http://bit.ly/15TX0rs >> [2] Catholic Research Resources Alliance - http://www.catholicresearch.** >> net/ <http://www.catholicresearch.net/> >> >> -- >> Eric Lease Morgan >> >> >> > -- > > > > Stephen Marks > Digital Preservation Librarian > Scholars Portal > Ontario Council of University Libraries > > [log in to unmask] > 416.946.0300 >