Adrian:
Great post, and good points. Just a small clarification: the Registry
software is available via open source license, but there's no license on
the data. The intention is for the RDA data to be freely available to
anyone.
Diane
On 3/10/10 11:24 AM, Adrian Pohl wrote:
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> 4.) Linked Data is one way for becoming part of the web. To walk this
> way we have to experiment with the best way of publishing our data to
> the Linked Data Web. This means creating an ontology for the data at
> hand and migrating the different data sets in different formats to RDF
> (the standard data model for Linked Data). Using RDA as the underlying
> ontology does imply spending lots of time and energy in making it fit to
> one's legacy data. Much work has already been done developing RDA but it
> still has to be made attractive to use. (See
> http://catalogsofbabes.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/rda-why-it-wont-work/
> for the difficulty of RDA.) I see RDA as a kind of überontology from
> which individual institutions derive there "application profiles" which
> focus only on a part of the world RDA describes. After some engagement
> with RDA and the RDA metadata registry
> (http://metadataregistry.org/rdabrowse.htm) I know that this won't be
> easy. (BTW, it is unfavourable that the RDA metadata registry is
> published under a BY-NC-SY-licence. It rather should be put in the
> public domain.) An alternative to RDA could be building on an ontology
> based on Dublin Core or the already used Bibliographic Ontology
> (http://bibliontology.com/).
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Received on Wed Mar 10 2010 - 12:09:48 EST