5. Getting Started

Use existing controlled vocabularies

• id.loc.gov -- includes linked data version of LC Names, LCSH, LC Classification, LC Children's Subjects, LC Genre/Form Terms (LCGFT), Thesaurus for Graphic Material (TGM), Cultural Heritage Organizations (CHO), MARC relator terms, MARC countries, MARC geographic areas, MARC languages, extended date/time format (EDTF)
• Geonames.org -- over 10 million geographic names
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT from Getty)
• Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA from Getty)
• Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN from Getty)
• Union List of Artist Names (ULAN from Getty)
  • FAST Authority File -- Faceted Application of Subject Terminology created by OCLC and based off LCSH
  • Open Metadata Registry -- contains vocabularies for MARC, RDA, PBCore, and other domains
  • DBpedia -- linked data version of Wikipedia data

Clean-up metadata

• Use controlled vocabulary lists in CONTENTdm
• Authority control for digital collections
• Metadata audit

Experiment with transforming metadata to RDF

• UNLV Linked Data Blog -- Information about creating Linked Data from metadata extracted from CONTENTdm, using tools such as Open Refine, Mulgara, Virtuoso

Experiment with other Linked Data tools

• Create a local thesaurus/ontology
• Protégé
• Freebase
• Learn SPARQL (SPARQL Query Language for RDF)
  • Try out Triplestores
  • Mulgara
  • Virtuoso
  • AllegroGraph

Explore mapping your metadata to an existing data model

• Europeana Data Model
• DPLA Metadata Application Profile
• SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System)
• Relationship between BIBFRAME and OCLC’s Linked-Data Model