diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/EntityController.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/EntityController.java
index 45f2e1d55..131bf7415 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/EntityController.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/EntityController.java
@@ -216,6 +216,11 @@ public class EntityController extends VitroHttpServlet {
             css += customCss;
         }
 
+        if(  indiv.getURI().startsWith( vreq.getWebappDaoFactory().getDefaultNamespace() )){        	
+        	vreq.setAttribute("entityLinkedDataURL", indiv.getURI() + "/" + indiv.getLocalName() + ".rdf");	
+        }
+        
+        
 		// generate link to RDF representation for semantic web clients like Piggy Bank
 		// BJL 2008-07-16: I'm temporarily commenting this out because I forgot we need to make sure it filters out the hidden properties
         // generate url for this entity
diff --git a/webapp/web/images/edit_icons/rdf_w3c_icon48.gif b/webapp/web/images/edit_icons/rdf_w3c_icon48.gif
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3277696b9
Binary files /dev/null and b/webapp/web/images/edit_icons/rdf_w3c_icon48.gif differ
diff --git a/webapp/web/templates/entity/entityBasic.jsp b/webapp/web/templates/entity/entityBasic.jsp
index 17311ed52..d8bbbde40 100644
--- a/webapp/web/templates/entity/entityBasic.jsp
+++ b/webapp/web/templates/entity/entityBasic.jsp
@@ -316,6 +316,13 @@ if (VitroRequestPrep.isSelfEditing(request) || LoginFormBean.loggedIn(request, L
             </p:process>
             
             ${requestScope.servletButtons}
-            
+        
+        <!-- 
+        	<c:if test="${not empty entityLinkedDataURL}">
+        	  <c:url var="rdfImg" value="/images/edit_icons/rdf_w3c_icon48.gif"/>
+        	  <a href="${entityLinkedDataURL}" title="get this as RDF/XML"><img src="${rdfImg}"/></a>
+        	</c:if>    
+        	 -->
         </div> <!--  contents -->
+        
     </div> <!-- content -->