Alistair Miles
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:04:30 -0700
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:17:50PM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote: > Alistair, I just wanted to thank you, and will spend some more time with > this in the near future, hopefully.
No problem. I had hoped to get a bit further and get some data behind a sparql endpoint, then demo a few simple queries, but I just ran out of time in the end. I hope others will be able to take the work forward, it's a really interesting dataset, and would make an enormously valuable addition to the linked data cloud. > As for the unicode errors -- library data does some strange things with > character sets, so I'm not surprised. I will try to determine if the > output we've got is correct -- which is really the bottom line. That would be good. I know very little about character encoding so don't really know where to start. Cheers, Alistair > > kc > > Alistair Miles wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I've been working on a conversion of the loc marc data from scriblio >> to rdf using the rda and frbr schemas, and have got as far as I can >> with the effort I can spare at the moment. I set up a google code >> project to manage the work at: >> >> [1] http://code4rda.googlecode.com >> >> and have an alpha release of some of the loc data, described further >> at: >> >> [2] http://code.google.com/p/code4rda/wiki/MilestoneOne >> >> This is still well short of the initial scope proposed at [2] for a >> first milestone, based on the most prevalent features in the loc >> dataset, but will nevertheless hopefully serve as an initial proof of >> principle, and a base from which others can build. >> >> I've added diane hillman and ed summers as project owners to [1], I >> leave it to them to decide best how to take this work forward. >> >> Unfortunately I'm going to be rather busy for the next couple of >> months, and may not have much time to follow up on this work. However >> if anyone finds any serious issues in the loc data then do let me >> know, I'll do what I can to fix them. >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Alistair >> >> >> > > -- > ----------------------------------- > Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant > kco...@kcoyle.net http://www.kcoyle.net > ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet > fx.: 510-848-3913 > mo.: 510-435-8234 > ------------------------------------ -- Alistair Miles Senior Computing Officer Image Bioinformatics Research Group Department of Zoology The Tinbergen Building University of Oxford South Parks Road Oxford OX1 3PS United Kingdom Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman Email: alistair.mi...@zoo.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 281993