VRA RDF Ontology

VRA Core RDF Ontology Available for Review

October 7, 2015
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 VRA Core
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A taskforce setup through the VRA Core Oversight Committee (Core OC)
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has
released an initial draft of a VRA Core RDF Ontology. The RDF Ontology is
based on the Core 4.0 XML Schema and is available along with an XLST
stylesheet that will convert VRA Core 4.0 compliant XML in RDF.
Representing a VRA Core description in RDF allows for exposing rich VRA
Core metadata as Linked Data, so that the descriptions may be widely shared
and interact with other Linked Data resources on the Web, such as the
ongoing project to release the Getty Vocabularies as linked open data
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Together, these tools will allow museums, libraries and archives to
increase exposure of their content online, allowing people to more easily
find relevant images of cultural heritage objects, sites, and subjects.



The Ontology, XSLT conversion stylesheet as well as example records can be
found on GitHub at the following link
https://github.com/mixterj/VRA-RDF-Project
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The Ontology can be viewed herehttp://purl.org/vra/
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.

Comments and questions are welcomed. Please feel free to submit them over
the VRA Core listserv, which you can join at this link
http://listserv.loc.gov/listarch/vracore.html
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on the GitHub repo page or email them directly to Jeff Mixter (
mixterj@oclc.org).



*Taskforce members:*
Jeff Mixter, Software Engineer, OCLC
Rebecca Guenther, Metadata Specialist at Rebecca Guenther Consulting
Trish Rose-Sandler, Data Analyst, Center for Biodiversity Informatics,
Missouri Botanical Garden
Michael Dulock, Metadata Librarian, University of Colorado Boulder Libraries
Esme Cowles, Software Engineer, UC San Diego Libraries

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Jeff Mixter
jeffmixter@gmail.com
440-773-9079