Linked Data Workshop 27th – 28th May 2010
Summary of actions from Action Area sessions
Action Area 1: Developing and using URIs
Institutional perspective
· Invite small number of like minded organisations to work together, but keep it small
· Establish a “best practice” guide
· Hugh Glaser @ Southampton invited URIs to be sent to him and he would maintain same-as relations
National perspective
· Parties seeking interoperability can collaborate to establish:
· Models for types of content
· Best practice for URIs
· Policies for URIs
· Andreas Juffinger @ Europeana offered to host discussions / wiki space
Action Area 2: Encoded Archival Description (EAD)
Session 1
· Dave Price (Oxford) and David Flanders (JISC) to lead the work.
· Arrange a 2 day workshop of EAD subject experts and LD experts to took at data and devise an RDF data model.
· Possible collections: Oxford (DP) and LoC (RS). LoC is developing an XML database which will be in beta in September.
· EAD is the priority but consideration will be given to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) asap. Note that Oxford uses TEI within EAD.
Session 2
· Mike Keller will initiate a student project to expose some EAD records as RDF.
· The 60th anniversary of the US Civil War provides an opportunity to showcase EAD and other related material. RDF provides a good mechanism for aggregation. There are opportunities for funded projects in this area.
· Newspaper collections could be interlinked through events. There are good opportunities for funded projects in this area.
Action Area 2: Freebase
· SUL is contributing additional catalogue information to Freebase in RDF format.
· Other organisations are invited to also contribute.
· As the RDF is open, other service providers may choose to look at additional services or use the material to showcase alternate approaches.
Action Area 2: Rights issues
· Look for uncontentious stuff;
· Identify contentious stuff and begin working through issues, surface issues for working parties
· Look to create models for blanket deals, either within the library community, or with publishers.
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