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The University of Iowa primarily worked on the design and implementation of an support a support infrastructure layer for an eventual ecosystem of Linked Open Data servers and systems. Given the somewhat immature nature of currently deployed LOD resources (e.g., offline SPARQL endpoints), the project decided that it was advisable to deploy our own services for the various LOD resources. This allowed us to
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For examples of integration of these services into other elements of the project, please see Samvera (aka Hydra) Community Linked Data SupportArchitecture for Authority Lookup.
Authorities
Our deployment process became regularized to the extent that a number of authority sources were included:
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