Hi everyone,
It probable that one way to reach a critical mass with LOD uptake is to embed the key bits of functionality in the systems, making the operations reasonably straightforward for the user, as Richard is aiming to do, and Adlib and others are also planning.
I wonder if there's any scope for a joined up approach from the main system suppliers, in dialogue with user groups and maybe workshops at LOD events such as Nick is suggesting?
Is it feasible to convene a joint workshop (with Modes, Adlib, Axiell Calm, Selago, System Simulation, etc) at such an event, to discuss a strategy? Is it possible to share ideas without threatening business models?
Maybe that discussion is already happening offline?
Stephen
On 4 Apr 2013, at 16:25, Richard Light <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 04/04/2013 16:09, Mia wrote:
>> In terms of practicalities, are there any use cases for other organisations
>> testing out the BM's model? One potential use might be using it as a basis
>> for linking to collections across various museum sites e.g. Wellcome links
>> to similar objects on the Science Museum site which links to others on the
>> British Museum site which in turn links out. To a large extent those
>> object-specific links wouldn't be automagically machine-discoverable, so it
>> would require both a willingness to link to other collections sites and
>> some curatorial input - is that at all realistic given current resources?
> I'm actively planning to adopt the BM model in as wholesale a manner as possible, once I get my hands on it, for use in the Linked Data publication framework for Modes data. This adoption will take the form of an XSLT transform to convert Modes Object data to RDF. In principle this will allow any Modes user to publish their collection as BM-compatible Linked Data. However ...
>
> * at present only a few Modes users are in a position to adopt this
> framework (though I can guarantee that there will be at least one!)
> * the compatibility will be at the structural level, i.e. the CRM
> predicates will match. However, the subjects and objects will
> probably not match up. To use my wall metaphor, the mortar will be
> compatible but the bricks won't
> * Modes doesn't do SPARQL end-points, so querying the data will have
> to be done differently
>
> Still, that would be a start. I'm looking at providing some sort of VoID description to facilitate crawling of the whole resource, so it should be possible for an aggregator to build a central database with all this RDF in it. At which point we could start doing the "similar object" type searches.
>
> Richard
>
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