In addition to the excellent examples you’ve provided, Universities should leverage their institutional repositories (and the artifacts within them) as linked data sources for scientific and other data.
Side note: the world of digital humanities is under-represented in this discussion, for no good reason. Yes, scientists have data, but digital humanities produces tons of scholarly data as well, including GBs of phylogenetic information. cf http://bit.ly/9HhbCU
I agree… and that’s certainly on the radar for funders and (at least some) repository builders/managers. RKBExplorer and tools like it are part of unlocking the value that resides inside those repositories… and the picture gets even more interesting as we begin to deal with the background data as well as the preprints/eprints…
In addition to the excellent examples you’ve provided, Universities should leverage their institutional repositories (and the artifacts within them) as linked data sources for scientific and other data.
Les Carr wrote a great piece on this recently, How Repositories Can Contribute Linked Data.
Side note: the world of digital humanities is under-represented in this discussion, for no good reason. Yes, scientists have data, but digital humanities produces tons of scholarly data as well, including GBs of phylogenetic information. cf http://bit.ly/9HhbCU
I agree… and that’s certainly on the radar for funders and (at least some) repository builders/managers. RKBExplorer and tools like it are part of unlocking the value that resides inside those repositories… and the picture gets even more interesting as we begin to deal with the background data as well as the preprints/eprints…