URIs and My Metadata
I actually started work on this awhile ago, but given Tim Berners-Lee’s polite request that we all give ourselves uris, here’s mine: http://purl.org/net/darcusb/info#me. I registered a purl so that I keep the uri (and others; see below) consistent despite the actual url.
This is the beginning of my moving my metadata to RDF. From that foaf document—which I hope to get to the point where my CV is automatically generated from it—you can see links to further RDF documents, most of which are dedicated to my bibliographic metadata.
Because the metadata is now fairly nicely normalized, it’s more compact and much more consistent than my previous MODS collection. When finishing my book I realized just how much of a mess that collection was, and how awkward it was to try to normalize it. That process is getting close to being done, and I found RDF to be immensely helpful in doing that. Now all important content—authors, publishers, subjects, periodicals, etc.—are full resources with uris.
Next step? After fixing cleaning up the metadata, I need to modify CiteProc to take RDF input.
Thought experiment: what would happen to citation practices if all academics had their CV’s—including their publications list—encoded in RDF and available as uris?
