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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 [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet