Crafting Organization Using Resources and Time

COURT defines a set of practices for organizing resources and exposing their data.

The core premise is to leverage existing technologies to make this straightforward:

• Atom for delivery and timeline,
• RDF for describing the actual (domain-specific) data.

The goal is to gather a concise set of existing specs and practices to form a usable whole, to be used as a basis for many kinds of resource distribution and collection scenarios.

Concepts

The term "resource" refers to the concept used on the web (the "R" in both URI and RDF), for which there is commonly one or more digital representations (either direct representations or related descriptions).

These resource representations are exposed on the web, and are modified over time.

Timelines

Representing timelines for RDF data is a primary motive of COURT. A timeline represents the modification of a collection over time. The use of Atom for this is the current recommendation.

See Timelines for further information.

Data: RDF Practices

Orthogonal to timelines is how to describe datasets, provenance, logging and other things related to the management of RDF data.

See RDF Practices for further information.

Vocabularies

Vocabularies pertaining to management of RDF data, defined under the COURT umbrella:

• COIN

Implementation

COURT describes some components useful when implementing COURT practices. See: Implementation Components.