Using RDF to Describe and Link Social Science Data to Related Resources on the Web

Abstract

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Scholarly Resources Structuring: Use Cases for Digital Libraries

“…Kramer et al (see [9]) focus on relating semantified (RDF represented) datasets to relevant resources (publications, organizations, studies, people, etc.) in the domain of social sciences, and describe 5 use cases that benefit from this undertaking.…”

CED²AR: The Comprehensive Extensible Data Documentation and Access Repository

“…Both versions are expressible in XML and are defined via an XML schema. There is ongoing work on an RDF expression of DDI-Lifecycle, and subsequent publishing of DDI metadata as Linked Open Data [3,4,21]. We decided to implement CED 2 AR using DDI 2.5 expressed in XML for a number of reasons including existing tools support, lower complexity, adequate functionality, and the promise of easy upgrade to version 3 if that were deemed necessary in the future.…”

“…We note that the decision to use either the XML or RDF/XML encoding may be influenced by current work within the DDI community to develop an RDF encoding for DDI metadata that could then easily accommodate RDF-encoding of provenance metadata [3,21]. In the end, we believe that there should be two viable and cross-translatable alternatives -a pure RDF approach and the pure XML approach that we propose -that implementers can choose between based on their comfort with each technology.…”

Encoding Provenance Metadata for Social Science Datasets

“…We specify here an easily implemented manner for embedding this information, which we plan to implement. We note that there is an active effort within the DDI community to develop an RDF encoding for DDI metadata that could easily accommodate RDF-encoding provenance metadata [15][16][17]. As that effort matures, we anticipate that our experiments with provenance and social science data will be a valuable contribution.…”