MORE 'LINKED-DATA' POSTS
Here’s a report via Proyecto Aporto (Mechanically Translated by Google Translate). It notes that the project is from a collaboration between BNE and the Ontological Engineering Group of the University de Madrid . Direct to Data (via BNE) ||| English Translation Tweets from @wdlorg and @tommyh point out that millions of records are available. […]
NISO and Open Archives Initiative Receive Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Create Resource Synchronization Standard
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From the National Institute of Standards Organizations: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the Open Archives Initiative have been awarded a $222,000 grant for a joint project to develop a new open standard on the real-time synchronization of Web resources. Increasingly, large-scale digital collections are available from multiple hosting locations, are cached at multiple […]
New Tech Paper from IBM: "Toward a Basic Profile for Linked Data"
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From a Summary on the IBM developer Library Web Site: W3C defines a wide range of standards for the Semantic Web and Linked Data suitable for many possible use cases. While using Linked Data as an application integration technology in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) domain, IBM has found that there are often several possible […]
From the Facultad de Informática at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid: Spanish edition of DBpedia mushrooms from just four to over 100 types of mapped infoboxes and from 20,000 to over 400,000 mapped pages On 3 and 4 November last, the Spanish Linked Data Thematic Network, led by Oscar Corcho of the Ontology Engineering Group, […]
Elsevier Announces Winners of Semantic Web Challenge
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From Elsevier: Elsevier today announced the winners of the Semantic Web Challenge. Participants in the Challenge applied semantic web techniques in building online end-user applications that integrate, combine and deduce information needed to assist users in performing tasks. The Challenge took place at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011) in Bonn, Germany, from October […]
New From CLIR: Linked Data for Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Survey and Workshop Report
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New Report: “Linked Data for Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Survey and Workshop Report” Full Text (PDF) Full Text (HTML) Linked Data Survey From the CLIR Web Site: In June 2011, Stanford University hosted a group of librarians and technologists to examine issues and challenges surrounding the use of linked data for library applications. This report […]
Just Released: W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group Final Report
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From the Report Intro: The mission of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group, chartered from May 2010 through August 2011, has been “to help increase global interoperability of library data on the Web, by bringing together people involved in Semantic Web activities — focusing on Linked Data — in the library community and beyond, […]
Dublin Core 2011 Keynote Presentation: Towards Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums
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Title: Towards Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums Author/Presenter: Emmanuelle Bermes Presented at DC-2011, The Hague (September 2011) Abstract: Convergence is a major issue for cultural heritage organisations: libraries, archives and museums face the growing need to provide their users with seamless access to their data. This challenge is not new, and the Dublin […]
CIDOC Recommendations for Object Identifiers for Linked Open Data
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Via Collections Link: As more museums, archives and libraries look ahead to the opportunities afforded by Linked Open Data, there is increasing interest in the issue of how to identify objects uniquely and persistently so that the identifiers can resolve to an original information source. [Clip] To help cultural professionals establish consistent systems for approaching […]
From Semantic Universe: Ruben Verborgh and Seth van Hooland have launched Free Your Metadata, “a demonstrator site for showing how even irregular metadata can have valued to others and how, if it is released rather than clutched tightly onto (until that mythical day when it is ‘perfect’), it can be cleaned up and improved using […]
