RE: PRISM data on the LOD cloud?

Thanks,
I am always looking out for datasets that will make management sit up and take notice of the LOD cloud (my organisation is a *large* global publisher). UK and US government datasets have raised awareness that something is happening, but there's nothing like seeing the competition getting involved while you dally in the wings.

Kingsley, I didn't at all understand your answer. The PDF I referenced lists the members of the PRISM consortium, which includes some big names in the publishing world. The point being, if commercial entities are actively using a metadata format that is trivially publishable as Linked Data, then wouldn't we hope to see this ending up in the LOD cloud. If it isn't, then why not? It would be a worry if the LOD cloud remains the preserve of the non-profit, governmental and academic communities.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hammond, Tony [mailto:t.hammond@nature.com]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 3:19 PM
To: Kingsley Idehen; Hondros, Constantine
Cc: public-lod@w3.org
Subject: Re: PRISM data on the LOD cloud?

Hi Kingsley:

> Kill me with the PDF URL :-(

I think we could have been a tad more gracious here. This kind of remark
only serves to alienate the well intentioned.

You know, it's not actually (yet) a crime to put out a PDF on the open Web.
Yes, it may not be the most "webby" of document formats but it does have
certain viabilities.

Re your question:

> Where can I see GET the RDF/XML resource?

What on earth does this really mean? Which "resource" do you want to see?
The link that was forwarded by the enquirer was to a specification document
for generating resources with standalone RDF/XML descriptions as well as to
embedded XMP (RDF/XML) packets.

I'm not sure why that specification especially needs to be in RDF/XML. But
there is an .rdfs [1] that I contributed to a somewhat older version of
PRISM (1.2) if that helps you any. It needs to be updated and improved.

As to the original query, there is already a large body of RDF/XML documents
using PRISM available from academic publishers who have used it especially
in their RSS feeds - and have been using it for > 5 years. See this RSS Best
Practices document [2] from CrossRef - the organization promoting citation
linking - which recommends that journals publishers use RSS 1.0 (i.e. the
RDF flavour) and also that they use DC and PRISM for fuller descriptions.

Also CrossRef are working on a similar document to encourage publishers to
add XMP packets (with DC and PRISM) into their PDFs. Note that a couple of
larger publishers are routinely adding XMP packets to their PDFs, and
CrossRef is also devloping tools for smaller publishers [3]. (And I suppose
if publishers must out PDFs then they are atoning to some degree in adding
RDF/XML descriptions to these documents.;)

So, at least on the scholarly publishing front there are ongoing efforts to
make PRISM metadata terms available within RDF descriptions.

Cheers,

Tony



[1] http://www.idealliance.org/filefolder/prism.rdfs

[2] http://oxford.crossref.org/best_practice/rss/

[3]
http://www.crossref.org/CrossTech/2009/12/add_crossref_metadata_to_pdfs.html




On 1/7/10 22:37, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

> Hondros, Constantine wrote:
>>
>> Has any PRISM content ever made it into the LOD cloud?
>>
>>
>>
>> PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) is a
>> metadata standard that can be encoded as RDF/XML (as well as XML, and
>> XMP), which has been developed by an impressive industry consortium
>> [1], and which, as far as I can tell, is being actively used.
>>
>>
>>
>> In other words, just the sort of high quality metadata we would hope
>> to have in the LOD cloud, right? End-points, anyone?
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.prismstandard.org/PRISMUsers.pdf
>>
>>

>
> Kill me with the PDF URL :-(
>
> Where can I see GET the RDF/XML resource?



On 1/7/10 22:37, "Kingsley Idehen" <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:

> Hondros, Constantine wrote:
>>
>> Has any PRISM content ever made it into the LOD cloud?
>>
>>
>>
>> PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) is a
>> metadata standard that can be encoded as RDF/XML (as well as XML, and
>> XMP), which has been developed by an impressive industry consortium
>> [1], and which, as far as I can tell, is being actively used.
>>
>>
>>
>> In other words, just the sort of high quality metadata we would hope
>> to have in the LOD cloud, right? End-points, anyone?
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.prismstandard.org/PRISMUsers.pdf
>>
>>
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>
> Where can I see GET the RDF/XML resource?


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