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This is great. I appreciate that you've included XSLT to transform MADS into other RDF serializations. I think that people will find this really useful in other projects. A minor point of contention, and it may start a debate, but I have been successfully convinced that skos:exactMatch and not owl:sameAs is the appropriate property to use in matching concepts in a SKOS-based thesaurus. I don't think it matters that much in the long run, but it could have an effect on semantic reasoning. Ethan On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Eric Hanson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > NCSU Libraries has published its first linked data set, NCSU Organization > Name Linked Data, at http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ld/onld/. This data set is > based on the NCSU Organization Name Authority, a tool maintained by the > Acquisitions and Discovery department since 2009 to manage the variant > forms of name for serial and e-resource publishers, providers, and vendors > in E-Matrix, our locally-developed electronic resource management system. > > The names chosen as the authorized form reflect an acquisitions, rather > than bibliographic, orientation. For example, in the Library of Congress > Name Authority File, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers > is represented by its full name, whereas in the NCSU Organization Name > Linked Data, it appears as "IEEE, " which is how it is generally known > among acquisitions staff. Also, there many subsidiary units with valid > headings in the LC Name Authority File but for the purpose of managing > journals and electronic resources they are simply considered to be variant > forms of name for the parent organization that manages acquisitions and > licensing-related functions for the subsidiaries. > > The data in the NCSU Organization Name Linked Data is represented as RDF > triples using properties from the SKOS, RDF Schema, FOAF and OWL > vocabularies. Where possible, we included links to descriptions of the > organizations in other linked data sources, including the Virtual > International Authority File, the Library of Congress Name Authority File, > Dbpedia, Freebase, and International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). These > types of links are encouraged in Tim Berners-Lee's description of 5 Star > Open Data and will enable users of the data to easily incorporate > properties from these other linked data sources in future applications. > > The data set is made freely available with the Creative Commons CC0 > License and can be downloaded as RDF-XML, N3/Turtle, N-Triples, JSON-LD or > through RDFa embedded in the HTML page for each organization. We plan on > periodically updating this data set with new organizations from our > E-matrix system. > > This data set will also be the seed data for organizations in the Global > Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) (http://gokb.org/), a freely available data > repository with key publication information about electronic resources that > will have its public release in September. As a part of NCSU’s lead role > in the GOKb project, we are collaborating with the GOKb developers on > future linked data initiatives involving title, package and platform data. > > For questions or reporting broken or incorrect links, please contact: > > Eric Hanson > [log in to unmask] > Electronic Resources Librarian > Acquisitions & Discovery > NCSU Libraries >