Moving Our Data to the Semantic Web: Leveraging a Content Management System to Create the Linked Open Library

Abstract

While migrating their website and digital library content to the Drupal content management system, the Smithsonian Libraries saw an opportunity to not only improve the management and presentation of their content, but also to make it available for reuse by its own site and others by publishing it as linked open data 1 (LOD). Leveraging the core functionality of Drupal 7 to produce RDF, it embarked on two projects. The first will publish bibliographic data taken from the library catalog as part of its digitization program and present it as RDFa. The second will create LOD from a much-cited botanical reference work.