LLD@CKAN

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

Received on Thursday, 28 April 2011 08:31:26 UTC