Abstract
In February 2014, the National Library of Medicine formed the Linked Data Infrastructure Working Group to investigate the potential for publishing linked data, determine best practices for publishing linked data, and prioritize linked data projects, beginning with transforming the Medical Subject Headings as a linked data pilot. This article will review the pilot project to convert the Medical Subject Headings from XML to RDF. It will examine the collaborative process, the technical and organizational issues tackled, and the future of linked data at the library.
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1BIBFRAME, http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/
2PubChem RDF, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rdf/
3MeSH Classes, http://hhs.github.io/meshrdf/classes.html; MeSH Predicates, http://hhs.github.io/meshrdf/predicates.html
4SPARQL Query Editor: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/query/
5Download MeSH RDF, ftp://ftp.nlm.nih.gov/online/mesh/
6LodeStar on GitHub, https://github.com/EBISPOT/lodestar
7SPARQL Endpoint Base URL, http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/sparql
8MeSH RDF Sample Queries: http://hhs.github.io/meshrdf/sample-queries.html
10MeSH RDF GitHub Issues: https://github.com/HHS/meshrdf/issues