Semantic web in New Zealand?

[Tim McNamara]

Sorry if this is a bit OT, but figure that most metadata-aware people would be chatting on here.

I'm interested in the Semantic Web, but have only seen lots of momentum in Europe. Are there any good examples of organisations publishing their data as RDF and so forth in New Zealand?

Tim McNamara  |  @timClicks  |  timmcnamara.co.nz

[Stuart A. Yeates]

Technically, anyone publishing RSS is publishing RDF (almost every
modern website).

OAI is also automatically mappable to RDF (every university library,
i.e. http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ ), although we're now exploring
MARCXML as having better metadata than OAI.

http://authority.nzetc.org/ (my site) doesn't expose RDF, but it does
expose EAC ( http://www.library.yale.edu/eac/ ) and crosswalks to the
AWMM ( http://muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/ )

cheers
stuart

[Tim McNamara]

Thanks Stuart, the RSS feed point hadn't occurred to me before.

It's probably quite difficult to say... but has it proven useful? When do you think adding meta data justifies the effort to get it in there? It's a little bit outside of what NZETC does, but I'm considering the case of a standard CMS - they're not well suited to providing extras. 

What would justify to people to add that extra information or pay for their system to provide content as RDFa or other formats?

 
Tim McNamara  |  @timClicks  |  timmcnamara.co.nz

[Stuart A. Yeates]

I've heard very good things about the latest version of drupal, both
in terms of it's handling of metadata and it's support for non-HTML
XML formats.

http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/story-rdf-drupal7-and-what-it-means-web-large

cheers
stuart