Thomas,
This is very interesting. I've spent some time looking at the OL data
and transforming it into RDF also.
Have you spent any time trying to provide more links within the data,
rather than out to other data sets?
Also, in the example you gave, http://olrdf.appspot.com/key/b/OL5218098M.rdf
you have a contributor that looks a little odd:
<rdf:Description rdf:about="Weisgard, Leonard, 1916- illus."/>
Is this because OL doesn't provide URIs for the illustrators? If so,
perhaps it should be a blank node:
<bibo:contributorList rdf:parseType="Collection">
<foaf:Person>
<foaf:name>Weisgard, Leonard, 1916- illus.</foaf:name>
</foaf:Person>
</bibo:contributorList>
This is a great start. Is OL planning to integrate your work into the
OL interface?
rob
On 5 Jan 2009, at 13:21, Thomas FRANCART wrote:
Hi
I have written a wrapper to expose openlibrary.org api data as RDF.
It is written in Python and deployed on google app engine.
You can reach it at these URL :
- http://olrdf.appspot.com/key/b/OL5218098M.rdf (replace the key
with any openlibrary item key)
- http://olrdf.appspot.com/isbn/2070394433.rdf (replace the ISBN
with any isbn10 or isbn13 value)
You can read more about this wrapper here :
http://mondeca.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/openlibrary-api-rdf-wrapper-on-google-app-engine/
Please let me know if you have any feedback on this; I would be more
than happy to provide the python code to anyone interested,
especially the folks at OpenLibrary if they want to host it.
Best,
Thomas
Thomas Francart
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