Category Archives: Semantic Web

Comparative Serialisation of RDF in JSON

Posted on May 4, 2011 by richardjones

This is a comparison of RDF-JSON and JSON-LD for serialising bibliographic RDF data. Given that we are also working with BibServer we have taken a BibJSON document as our source data for comparison. The objective was to both understand these … Continue reading →

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Name matching strategy using bibliographic data

Posted on December 1, 2010 by benosteen

One of the aims of an RDF representation of bibliographic data should be to have authors represented by unique, reference-able points within the data (as URIs), rather than as free-text fields. What steps can we do to match up the … Continue reading →

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"Bundling" instances of author names together without using owl:sameas

Posted on November 17, 2010 by benosteen

Bundling? It’s a verb I’ve taken from ”Glaser, H., Millard, I., Jaffri, A., Lewy, T. and Dowling, B. (2008) On Coreference and The Semantic Web http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/15765/” where the core idea is that you have a number of URIs that mean or … Continue reading →

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Augmenting the British Library's RDF data to allow for disambiguation

Posted on November 17, 2010 by benosteen

The British Library have released what they term the ‘British National Bibliography’ (BNB) under a permissive licence. This constitutes just under 3 million records, and is derived from the ‘most polished set of bibliographic data’ as some of it dates … Continue reading →

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Using the ORDF Fresnel Tool

Posted on November 7, 2010 by ww

The Fresnel Vocabulary for RDF provides a way to write down a set of instructions for transforming RDF statements into HTML for display. For some time, the ORDF library has included two implementations of Fresnel, one in JavaScript and one … Continue reading →

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