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On Mar 6, 2014, at 1:37 PM, Ethan Gruber <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Let me ask a more direct question. If participating in linked data is a >> “good thing”, then how do you — anybody here — suggest archivists (or >> librarians or museum curators) do that starting today? —Eric Morgan > > I think that RDFa provides the lowest barrier to entry. Using dcterms for > publisher, creator, title, etc. is a good place to start, and if your > collection (archival, library, museum) links to terms defined in LOD > vocabulary systems (LCSH, Getty, LCNAF, whatever), output these URIs in the > HTML interface and tag them in RDFa in such a way that they are > semantically meaningful, e.g., <a href="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300028569" > rel="dcterms:format">manuscripts (document genre)</a> > > It would be great if content management systems supported RDFa right out of > the box, and perhaps they are all moving in this direction. But you don't > need a content management system to do this. If you generate static HTML > files for your finding aids from EAD files using XSLT, you can tweak your > XSLT output to handle RDFa. Ethan, thank you. Do other people have any ideas of how libraries, archives, and/or museums can start doing linked data now? And if not, then what do you think needs to happen before additional linked data publication systems can be implemented? — Eric Morgan