Adopting RDF at a Large Humanities Digital Library: Lessons From a Challenging Success

應用RDF建置大型數位圖書館：來自具挑戰性的成功案例的經驗

10.6853/DADH.202304_(11).0005

Elie Roux

Resource Description Framework (RDF) ； linked open data ； cultural heritage ； 資源描述框架（RDF） ； 鏈結開放資料 ； 文化遺產

數位典藏與數位人文

11期（2023 / 04 / 01）

135 - 153

英文;繁體中文

Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a data technology designed for deep interconnections between projects and appears to be a perfect fit for digital humanities (DH). It is also very challenging to build a robust architecture around it, and this difficulty is an obstacle to its adoption, ultimately hindering interconnections between projects. This article presents the experience of adopting RDF as the native data format at the Buddhist Digital Resource Center (BDRC), and the conventions and tools that were used to make this adoption successful. We hope that this account of our experience can be useful for hesitant technical leads and scholars in DH, and that our conventions and tools can be adopted as recipes, so that more projects can adopt RDF at a lower cost.

資源描述框架（resource description framework, RDF）是一種用來連結各種不同專案的技術，因此特別適用於數位人文（digital humanities, DH）領域。但是建構RDF相關的基礎建設卻相當的困難，這個缺憾不僅影響了相關專案採用此技術的意願，最終也經常導致專案連結工作項目的失敗。在本文中，我們說明利用RDF作為主要原始資料格式，建置佛教數字資源中心（Buddhist Digital Resource Center, BDRC）的成功經驗、實作慣例與相關工具。我們希望我們的成功經驗，能為尚猶豫不決的DH專案領導者提供有用的參考資訊。此外，我們也希望我們的實作慣例與相關工具也能幫助更多的專案以更低廉的成本來運用RDF技術。

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