- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:05:59 -0400
- To: Antoine Isaac <aisaac@few.vu.nl>
- CC: public-lod@w3.org
Antoine Isaac wrote: > Kingsley Idehen a écrit : >> Antoine Isaac wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I'd like to announce the release an *experimental* service [1] that >>> provides the RAMEAU subject headings as open linked data. >>> Rameau [2] is the main subject vocabulary used at the French >>> national library (BnF) and many other French institutions. This >>> site, a result of the TELplus project, and a collaboration between >>> the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and BnF, aims at encouraging >>> experimentation with Rameau on the web of data. >>> >>> RDF/SKOS Data: >>> RAMEAU Concepts are described here according to the SKOS model [3] >>> to represent knowledge organization systems in RDF. Each concept >>> comes with labelling information but also semantic relations to >>> other concepts and various kind of notes. Concepts have URIs of the >>> form http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb11932889r. >>> >>> RDF/HTML content negociation: >>> This service follows the Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF >>> Vocabularies [4]. Depending a web agent's preference, it can serve >>> RDF/XML or HTML descriptions of concepts--note that the HTML pages >>> contain RDFa markup. >>> >>> Semantic alignment to LCSH: >>> Many concepts served here are semantically connected to the Library >>> of Congress Subject Headings linked data (soon to be) available at >>> http://id.loc.gov. This is done using 60,000 manual mappings >>> provided by the MACS project [5]. Thanks to them, you will be able >>> to "follow your nose" between one vocabulary and the other. >>> >>> Metrics: >>> The RAMEAU version served here contains 157,280 concepts, of which >>> 96,825 correspond to common nouns and 51,646 to geographic names. >>> >>> >>> Comments are highly welcome, either by personal mail, or via the LOD >>> and SWD mailing lists. This is an experimental prototype, and any >>> feedback--even positive!--could be useful to implement a more robust >>> version of it in the future! >>> >>> For more information, please visit [1] or contact aisaac at few.vu.nl. >>> Thanks a lot for your attention, >>> >>> Antoine >>> [1] http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/rameau >>> [2] http://rameau.bnf.fr >>> [3] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos >>> [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-vocab-pub >>> [5] http://macs.cenl.org >>> >>> ---- >>> Antoine Isaac >>> Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam >>> Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague >>> Homepage: http://www.few.vu.nl/~aisaac >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Antoine, >> >> Very nice!! >> >> BTW - Is there a dump for the LOD-Cloud warehouse? >> >> See ODE [1] links: >> >> See: >> >> 1. >> http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/about/html/http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb11932889r >> >> 2. >> http://linkeddata.uriburner.com/ode/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fstitch.cs.vu.nl%2Fvocabularies%2Frameau%2Fark%3A%2F12148%2Fcb11932889r >> >> >> Links: >> >> 1. http://ode.openlinksw.com > > Dear Kingsley, > > Thank you very much for the links! I was actually willing to include > Openlink stuff, having been impressed by it a while ago. > But when trying to find it again yesterday, I found only a link [1] > via wikipedia [2] or the ESW wiki [3], which does not work, at least > not for my browser. As I had not much time to investigate and ask, I > went for the easy option :-/ > > But I changed it now! > Best, > > Antoine > > [1] http://demo.openlinksw.com/DAV/JS/rdfbrowser/index.html > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data > [3] http://esw.w3.org/topic/LinkedData > > > > > > > Thanks, for the bad links notice :-) Will get this fixed (including a 301 re-write rule). -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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