Using Linked Data for Discovery and Preservation

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Using Linked Data for Discovery and Preservation
Sayeed Choudhury, EDUCAUSE Review, 2019/03/20
The idea of linked data has been around almost as long as the web itself, but the uptake has not been nearly as rapid. Part of the reason for this is that it hasn't been nearly as easy to adopt linked data as it was to adopt HTML. But as this article notes, this is beginning to change with more lightweight approaches to linked data, such as RMap, and with more tools able to take advantage of it, such as Archaeology of Reading and the Arches project. More...