FW: VRA Core RDF Ontology Available for Review

 

Dear All,

 

the release of the VRA Core RDF Ontology may be of interest to (some of) you. Please see the full announcement below.

 

Cheers,

 

Matthias

 

 

 

 

From: VRA Core Community and Standard List [mailto:VRACORE_at_LISTSERV.LOC.GOV] On Behalf Of Johanna Bauman
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 9:10 PM
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Subject: [VRACORE] VRA Core RDF Ontology Available for Review

 

A taskforce setup through the  <http://vraweb.org/about/committees/vra-core-oversight/> VRA Core Oversight Committee (Core OC) has released an initial draft of a VRA Core RDF Ontology. The RDF Ontology is based on the Core 4.0 XML Schema and is available along with an XLST stylesheet that will convert VRA Core 4.0 compliant XML in RDF. Representing a VRA Core description in RDF allows for exposing rich VRA Core metadata as Linked Data, so that the descriptions may be widely shared and interact with other Linked Data resources on the Web, such as the ongoing project to release the  <http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/lod/> Getty Vocabularies as linked open data. Together, these tools will allow museums, libraries and archives to increase exposure of their content online, allowing people to more easily find relevant images of cultural heritage objects, sites, and subjects.

 

The Ontology, XSLT conversion stylesheet as well as example records can be found on GitHub at the following link  <https://github.com/mixterj/VRA-RDF-Project> https://github.com/mixterj/VRA-RDF-Project). The Ontology can be viewed here <http://purl.org/vra/> http://purl.org/vra/.

 

Comments and questions are welcomed. Please feel free to submit them over the VRA Core listserv, which you can join at this link  <http://listserv.loc.gov/listarch/vracore.html> http://listserv.loc.gov/listarch/vracore.html, on the GitHub repo page or email them directly to Jeff Mixter ( <mailto:mixterj@oclc.org> mixterj@oclc.org).

 

Taskforce members:
Jeff Mixter, Software Engineer, OCLC
Rebecca Guenther, Metadata Specialist at Rebecca Guenther Consulting
Trish Rose-Sandler, Data Analyst, Center for Biodiversity Informatics, Missouri Botanical Garden
Michael Dulock, Metadata Librarian, University of Colorado Boulder Libraries
Esme Cowles, Software Engineer, UC San Diego Libraries

 

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VRA Core on the Web
 <http://www.loc.gov/standards/vracore/> VRA Core Schemas and Documentation (Library of Congress Official Site)
 <http://core.vraweb.org/> VRA Core Support Pages

 

 

 

 

 

Matthias Arnold

Heidelberg Research Architecture - Visual Resources

 

Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"

Heidelberg University

Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies

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69115 Heidelberg

 

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