Dear Council members (cc: , I’m in a class now at the DHSI taught by the impressive Jim Smith (formely of the Shelley-Godwin archive) on RDF/LOD, with a few other people from the TEI community. We’ve been investigating (in a preliminary kind of way) some controlled vocabularies and thinking it might be a good idea to work in a small team with some other TEI folks to try to establish some recommendations for helpful vocabularies to “cross-walk” from TEI elements and relationships we commonly work with (as, for example, in coding prosopography files with listPerson, listPlace, listBibl, etc). I know we’ve been talking about RDF a lot recently, and Raff and others on Council are thinking about this and working with Open Annotation and RDF vocabularies on projects. I know Oyvind is leading a SIG on TEI Ontologies, but I wonder how active it is. I’m wondering if we have / should call for a new SIG specifically to produce some recommendations or examples of RDF vocabularies that express relationships drawn from TEI documents of a variety of kinds. We think even just having a representative few of these to make available could be useful to encourage TEI encoders to think more about a) the richness of our data sets and how they can be contributing more directly to LOD world. We’d also want to represent methods of extraction and storage of RDF data in relation to the kinds of storage and database use common in the TEI community. Also, as this group researches RDF vocabularies (e.g. Getty, foaf, etc) , it could also make recommendations to the various communities responsible for maintaining RDF to make additions or refinements based on what we’ve designed in TEI that’s not being well served or for which we can’t easily find an expression in RDF. This isn’t quite a proposal for a new SIG, but just an inquiry, since we were talking recently about a panel on linked data ontologies and TEI at the next conference. Who all among us is interested in this, and can we be working on some model translations of vocabularies? Thanks, Elisa -- Elisa Beshero-Bondar, PhD Director, Center for the Digital Text | Associate Professor of English University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg | Humanities Division 150 Finoli Drive Greensburg, PA 15601 USA E-mail: ebb8@pitt.edu mailto:ebb8@pitt.edu Development site: http://newtfire.org http://newtfire.org/