On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_nd.edu> wrote:
>
> Good question! At the very least, these applications (ArchivesSpace,
> Archivists’ Toolkit, etc.) can regularly and systematically export their
> data as EAD, and the EAD can be made available as linked data. It would be
> ideal if the applications where to natively make their metadata available
> as linked data, but exporting their content as EAD is a functional stopgap
> solution. —Eric Morgan
>
Wouldn't it make more sense, especially with a system like ArchivesSpace,
which provides a backend HTTP API and a public UI, to publish linked data
directly instead of adding yet another stopgap?
Mark
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Mark A. Matienzo <mark_at_matienzo.org>
Director of Technology, Digital Public Library of America
Received on Thu Dec 05 2013 - 11:33:41 EST