Tag Archives: machine-readable metadata

Libraries and linked data #1: What are linked data?

Posted on March 1, 2013 by David Shotton

[Note: An introduction to this and the following five blog posts, all under the general title Libraries and linked data, is given in the previous post.] Linked data and RDF ‘Linked data’ are data encoded and published on the Web … Continue reading →

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Linked Data 101

Posted on March 1, 2013 by David Shotton

During a discussion with librarians towards the end of last year, I was asked why they should bother to publish their catalogues as open linked data, and how that might be done. For those of us already part of the … Continue reading →

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Ten next steps for semantic authors and publishers

Posted on February 26, 2013 by David Shotton

Note added 30 May 2013 Additional information concerning the use of OAI-ORE to specify aggregations of research outputs into data packages and research objects has been added at the end of this blog post. – – – Journal publishing has … Continue reading →

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An entry form for JATS metadata

Posted on December 20, 2012 by David Shotton

JATS, the Journal Article Tag Suite, defines a vocabulary of XML elements and attributes used to describe the content and metadata of journal articles.  As described in the previous post, we have mapped the metadata elements of the JATS Journal … Continue reading →

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Mapping JATS to RDF

Posted on December 20, 2012 by David Shotton

JATS, the Journal Article Tag Suite, defines a vocabulary of XML elements and attributes used to describe the content and metadata of journal articles.  In this post, I describe the mapping of JATS to RDF, so that publishers’ XML article … Continue reading →

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An entry form for DataCite metadata

Posted on December 4, 2012 by David Shotton

DataCite is an international organization responsible for the DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) issued for research datasets.  For each DOI issued, DataCite requires the data publisher to create and submit to DataCite descriptive metadata that can aid resource discovery.  These metadata … Continue reading →

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Revising the DataCite2RDF mapping document

Posted on December 4, 2012 by David Shotton

The purpose of mapping DataCite metadata elements to ontology terms is to enable DataCite metadata to be published in RDF as Open Linked Data, enabling these metadata to be understood programmatically and integrated automatically with similar data from elsewhere. In … Continue reading →

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Revising the DataCite Ontology

Posted on November 8, 2012 by David Shotton

In a previous blog post, I described the work that Silvio Peroni and I undertook in May 2011 to map the main terms from the DataCite Metadata Kernel v2.0 to RDF. To enable that, we created a ‘proto-ontology’, the DataCite … Continue reading →

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The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles

Posted on October 17, 2011 by David Shotton

Many people will be familiar with Tim Berners-Lee’s five stars of linked data, categorising the publication of data on the web in levels of increasing usefulness.  To complement these, I wish to propose the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles, … Continue reading →

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