@incollection{TrippelZinn2021, author = {Thorsten Trippel and Claus Zinn}, title = {Describing research data with CMDI — Challenges to establish contact with linked open data}, series = {Development of linguistic linked open data resources for collaborative data-intensive research in the language sciences}, editor = {Antonio Pareja-Lora and Mar{\´i}a Blume and Barbara C. Lust and Christian Chiarcos}, publisher = {MIT Press}, address = {Cambridge}, isbn = {978-0-262-35722-7}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-108065}, pages = {99 -- 115}, year = {2021}, abstract = {In this chapter, we discuss steps toward extending CMDI’s semantic interoperability beyond the Social Sciences and Humanities: We stress the need for an initial data curation step, in part supported by a relation registry that helps impose some structure on CMDI vocabulary; we describe the use of authority file information and other controlled vocabulary to help connecting CMDI-based metadata to existing Linked Data; we show how significant parts of CMDI-based metadata can be converted to bibliographic metadata standards and hence entered into library catalogs; and finally we describe first steps to convert CMDI-based metadata to RDF. The initial grassroots approach of CMDI (meaning that anybody can define metadata descriptors and components) mirrors the AAA slogan of the Semantic Web (“Anyone can say Anything about Any topic”). Ironically, this makes it hard to fully link CMDI-based metadata to other Semantic Web datasets. This paper discusses the challenges of this enterprise.}, language = {en} }