Using a Common Model: Mapping VRA Core 4.0 Into an RDF Ontology
Jeff Mixter · Journal of Library Metadata · 2014
Linked Data has become a very important way to share information on the Web. The Visual Resource Association (VRA) Core 4 eXtensible Markup Language (XML) schema was used as a basis for developing a new VRA ontology that was highly interoperable across the Web. Once the model was developed, an eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) style sheet was created to test the model against an actual VRA Core 4 data set. The study successfully demonstrated how popular and widely consumed vocabularies can be used to form the basis for more granular vocabularies. The study also demonstrated how existing data can be successfully converted into Resource Description Framework (RDF) using an XSLT style sheet.