Linked Archival Metadata: A Guidebook provides archivists with an overview of the Linked Data landscape. It begins by defining basic concepts, such as the RDF data model and its various serializations. It also covers Linked Data principles and emphasizes the tangible payoffs for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs). However, this resource is most useful for its information on the "Linked Data Life Cycle", as well as numerous links to tools and resources. The process of creating RDF data (including transforming from other data sources) and publishing it is described in detail. Topics related to designing, mapping, and publishing RDF vocabularies are given minimal coverage.
URL: http://infomotions.com/sandbox/liam/tmp/guidebook.pdf
Keywords: Semantic Web, HTTP URIs, D2RQ, R2RML
Author: Morgan, Eric Lease
Publisher: Tufts University
Date created: 2014-04-23 07:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P3H
Educational use: instruction
Educational audience: teacher-educationSpecialist
- Generates RDF data from non-RDF sources.
- Knows the "five stars" of Open Data: put data on the Web, preferably in a structured and preferably non-proprietary format, using URIs to name things, and link to other data.
- Reuses published properties and classes where available.
- Understands that to be "dereferencable", a URI should be usable to retrieve a representation of the resource it identifies.
- Understands the purpose of publishing RDF vocabularies in multiple formats using content negotiation.
- Understands that to be "persistent", a URI must have a stable, well-documented meaning and be plausibly intended to identify a given resource in perpetuity.
- Understands trade-offs between "opaque" URIs and URIs using version numbers, server names, dates, application-specific file extensions, query strings or other obsoletable context.
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