E-resource management and the Semantic Web : applications of RDF for e-resource discovery

Semantic Web technologies and specifications are increasingly finding applications within digital libraries and other e-resource contexts. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an introduction to some essential Semantic Web concepts and the resource description framework (RDF), a key enabling language of the Semantic Web. Applications of RDF including Dublin Core, FOAF, SKOS and RDFa will be explored with practical examples, and recent implementations of these specifications within a variety of e-resource discovery contexts will be discussed

Guidelines for multilingual linked data

In this article, we argue that there is a growing number of linked datasets in different natural languages, and that there is a need for guidelines and mechanisms to ensure the quality and organic growth of this emerging multilingual data network. However, we have little knowledge regarding the actual state of this data network, its current practices, and the open challenges that it poses. Questions regarding the distribution of natural languages, the links that are established across data in different languages, or how linguistic features are represented, remain mostly unanswered. Addressing these and other language-related issues can help to identify existing problems, propose new mechanisms and guidelines or adapt the ones in use for publishing linked data including language-related features, and, ultimately, provide metrics to evaluate quality aspects. In this article we review, discuss, and extend current guidelines for publishing linked data by focusing on those methods, techniques and tools that can help RDF publishers to cope with language barriers. Whenever possible, we will illustrate and discuss each of these guidelines, methods, and tools on the basis of practical examples that we have encountered in the publication of the datos.bne.es dataset

The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS): a situation report for the HIVE Project

HIVE (Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabularies Engineering) es un proyecto financiado por el IMLS (Institute of Museums and Library Services), e indirectamente, en Dryad, ambos proyectos en colaboración del Metadata Research Center y el National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, North Carolina. Con el desarrollo de HIVE se pretende resolver esta problemática mediante una propuesta de generación automática de metadatos que permita la integración dinámica de vocabularios controlados específicos. Para asistir la integración de vocabularios se seleccionó SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organisation System), un estándar del World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) para la representación de sistemas de organización del conocimiento o vocabularios, como tesauros, esquemas de clasificación, sistemas de encabezamiento de materias y taxonomías, en el marco de la Web Semántica.El presente informe realiza un análisis exhaustivo de la situación en cuanto a la aplicación de SKOS. El estudio incluye una detallada revisión de literatura científica y recursos web sobre el modelo, una selección de los proyectos, iniciativas, herramientas, grupos de investigación claves y cualquier otro tipo de información que pudiera ser de relevancia para el logro de los objetivos del proyecto HIVE. Asimismo, se analiza la importancia de SKOS para el logro de la interoperabilidad semántica y se elaboran un conjunto de recomendaciones para los miembros del proyecto HIVE

One Schema to Rule them All. The Inner Workings of the Digital Archive ARCHE

A Resource Centre for the HumanitiEs (ARCHE) is a digital archive provided by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, which is part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The archive welcomes data from all humanities fields and offers persistent hosting as well as dissemination of resources. The technical setup of ARCHE is described, focusing on the bespoke metadata schema that was created to help in finding, accessing, and reusing data. Beyond that the schema binds together the different system components, contains mappings to other well-known schemas, provides multilingual labels for GUI display, and is used to generate a metadata form

One Schema to Rule them All. The Inner Workings of the Digital Archive ARCHE

A Resource Centre for the HumanitiEs (ARCHE) ist ein digitales Archiv, das vom Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften betrieben wird. Das Archiv speichert Daten aus dem gesamten Bereich der Geisteswissenschaften und bietet eine persistente Aufbewahrung und Bereitstellung von Ressourcen. Es wird der technische Aufbau von ARCHE beschrieben, wobei das Augenmerk auf das für die Auffindbarkeit, den Zugriff und die Nachnutzung von Daten maßgeschneiderte Metadatenschema gelegt wird. Darüberhinaus verbindet das Schema die verschiedenen Systemkomponenten, enthält Mappings auf andere wohlbekannte Schemata, stellt mehrsprachige Label für die GUI-Ansicht bereit und wird verwendet, um ein Metadatenformular zu generieren.A Resource Centre for the HumanitiEs (ARCHE) is a digital archive provided by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, which is part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The archive welcomes data from all humanities fields and offers persistent hosting as well as dissemination of resources. The technical setup of ARCHE is described, focusing on the bespoke metadata schema that was created to help in finding, accessing, and reusing data. Beyond that the schema binds together the different system components, contains mappings to other well-known schemas, provides multilingual labels for GUI display, and is used to generate a metadata form

One schema to rule them all. The inner workings of the digital archive Arche

A Resource Centre for the HumanitiEs (ARCHE) is a digital archive provided by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, which is part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The archive welcomes data from all humanities fields and offers persistent hosting as well as dissemination of resources. The technical setup of ARCHE is described, focusing on the bespoke metadata schema that was created to help in finding, accessing, and reusing data. Beyond that the schema binds together the different system components, contains mappings to other well-known schemas, provides multilingual labels for GUI display, and is used to generate a metadata form