Imagine you were minting close to a million URIs for historic newspaper pages such as:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1898-01-01/ed-1/seq-1/
for pages like:
The web page allows you to zoom in quite close and see lots of detail in the page:
Now lets say I want to describe this Newspaper Page in RDF. I need to decide what subject URI to hang the [...]
I’m just now running across lingvoj.org, a linked-data application for languages created by Bernard Vatant. lingvoj basically mints URIs for languages (using the ISO-639-1 code) and when resolved (yay HTTP) nice human and machine readable descriptions about the language are returned. So for example the URI for Chinese is:
http://www.lingvoj.org/lang/zh
If you click on that link, your [...]
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