Using more RDF enables greater "shareability" of terms
PennState is using RDF for authority control

What are our intentions?

• can ActiveFedora be leverage more?
• can we publish URIs in order to effect linked data or linking to DOIs?

Metadata expression/translation

• ND is very focused on research data.
• storing metadata as serialized rdf for greater flexibility
• Hull seems to be getting around the issue by adding extra fields to mods
• Some experimentation with using RDF as a way to express RDA instead of MARC.
• LoC has indicated that RDF is a promising lead

RELS-INT

• there's a gem for using RELS-INT in ActiveFedora: https://github.com/cul/active_fedora_relsint
• questions remain about how to index it since this gem stores the information in another datastream
• API is complicated

Scientific data

• linking scientific terminologies together into ontologies
• data.gov is exploring this
• Cray, IBM, Google are putting a lot of hardware research into improving speed of rdf