Re: LLD@CKAN

I've recently updated the list of examples of 'open' bibliographic data,
which includes lots of LLD at http://obd.jisc.ac.uk/examples - I used CKAN
quite a bit putting together this list.

Owen

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> More and more datasets relevant to our community are being released as
> linked-data. For example, Ed has recently published a great blog post which
> points at a couple of important, if not crucial ones [1].
>
> As some of you know already, our group has started a CKAN group on library
> linked data [2]. The hope is to help anyone find relevant datasets and
> accompanying descriptions, which may help them find their way into the
> growing LLD space.
>
> We found CKAN to be a really simple tool to use--see the instruction for
> "contributing" a dataset at [3]. It's also really fit for the purpose: the
> description any LLD dataset on CKAN can be pulled for updating the LOD cloud
> [4] (if tagged with "lod"), or for any more specific purpose [5].
>
> We will try to highlight the value of such a dataset inventory in our
> deliverables. But it is crucial that the community also starts using it now,
> for the benefits of all--newcomers and experts alike. We can't do all the
> work, especially if our group ceases to exist as such soon.
>
> And remember, no one needs to "own" a dataset to publish a description for
> it! CKAN is really open to anyone.
>
> Of course if for some reason you feel that there are problems with this
> approach, we're also interested as well :-)
>
> Best,
>
> Antoine
>
> [1] http://inkdroid.org/journal/2011/04/25/dois-as-linked-data/, pointing
> to
> http://www.crossref.org/CrossTech/2011/04/content_negotiation_for_crossr.htmlm
> http://periodicals.dataincubator.org/
> [2] http://ckan.net/group/lld
> [3]
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkedLibraryData/Datasets/CKANmetainformation
> [4]  http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/
> [5]  http://semantic.ckan.net/group/?group=http://ckan.net/group/lld
>
>
>


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