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Finally, we stress that it is not our intent to ask LAWDI participants to adhere to a single standard that dictates how each project and discipline brings its intellectual content into digital form. We recognize that existing data is heterogeneous and that many digital humanities projects have invested substantial time and money in creating resources according to their own needs. In this environment, any attempt to create a single unifying standard of data representation will fail and so we have not adopted that language in this proposal. We are also sensitive to the principle that overly detailed standards presume that a discipline knows all that it wants to say about its topic of study. This is certainly not the case for the Ancient World, where the basic terms of analysis continue to change in exciting ways. Of course, recognizing complexity as the starting point of discussions does not mean that useful interoperability cannot be achieved.
From the proposal submitted to the @NEH_ODH
Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. More specifically, Wikipedia defines Linked Data as "a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF."
Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. More specifically, Wikipedia defines Linked Data as "a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF."
“The assertion of an RDF triple says that some relationship, indicated by the predicate, holds between the things denoted by subject and object of the triple.”<http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/>
Subject ObjectPredicate
nm:denariusnm:denomination
“nm:” = “http://nomisma.org/id/”
nm:rrc-525.4a “Denarius”nm:denomination
nm:rrc-525.4a
NOTE: You *REALLY* want URIs in all three positions if good ones exist.
“Now many people will tell you (indeed I probably will too) that you need to distinguish the statements you make about the thing in the real world from the statements about the document. For example, a URI for me might return a document with some information about me, but the creation date for that document and the creation date for me are two different things. And because you donʼt want to get confused itʼs better to have a URI for the thing and another one for the document making assertions about the thing. Make sense?”<http://derivadow.com/2010/07/01/linked-things/>
I quote this as a useful principle that can get a conversation started. I strive to put information on the Internet in such a way that upon transmission, both soft-tissue processors - “Brains” - and silicon/