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In my opinion, creating an RDF/OWL ontology based on EAD will never be satisfying for people who created it (archivists), because you cannot capture the (theoretical) infinite depth of archival description in the inventory. But if you only think of the eventual end-usage (and not the archivists who created them), there are approaches to map EAD to other representations, to eventual connection with Linked Data.

- EAD to OAI, see "Using the Open Archives Initiatives Protocols with EAD" by Prom & Habing, JCDL 2002.
- EAD to CIDOC, see "Ontology-Based Metadata Integration in the Cultural Heritage Domain" by Stasinopoulou, et.al., ICADL 2007.

   junte

-----Original Message-----
From: Encoded Archival Description List on behalf of Martijn van Egdom
Sent: Thu 10/21/2010 10:27 AM
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Subject: Re: EAD and Semantic Web
 
Well I spoke with Ivo, found his result too, but it's not more than a rough
introduction example. So it is not functional.

Martijn

2010/10/21 Zhang, Junte <[log in to unmask]>

>  Ivo Zandhuis has made one.
>
> http://www.zandhuis.nl/ead/
>
>    junte
>    UvA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Encoded Archival Description List on behalf of Martijn van Egdom
> Sent: Thu 10/21/2010 9:26 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: EAD and Semantic Web
>
> Dear All,
>
> Currently I working for the archive of municipality of Delft (the
> Netherlands) as part of Master Thesis in Computer Science (studying at Delft
> University of Technology). The Thesis research is aiming at publishing
> (parts of) the archive on the web using Linked Open Data. The archive in
> Delft also uses the EAD standard.
>
> I am wondering, since I've the dtd and schema of the EAD standard on the
> website if there is also an ontology available (in owl or rdf) which
> describes EAD.
>
> Thanks in advange,
>
> Kinds regards,
>
> Martijn van Egdom,
> Delft University of Technology
>
>