ZBW Labs: Publish Projects as Linked Data

ZBW Labs gives insight into software developments of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW). Maintained by the IIPT (Innovative Information Systems and Publishing Technologies) department of the ZBW, it presents early prototypes as well as case studies in data visualization or full-fledged beta applications, which are not yet in full production state. The use of a content management system (CMS) was primarily driven by the need for better collaborative editing of the German/English content of the web site, for better ways of user interaction, such as on-page-comments, and for improved internal and external linking. Yet, we also wanted to bring the labs projects into the Web of Data—especially as some of these projects are Linked Data projects themselves. That implied providing an URI for each project, and offering additional (machine-readable, RDF) information under this URI. The