On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:44:29AM -0400, Ed Summers wrote:
OpenLibrary is already using the DublinCore vocabulary in its
metadata, just like WorldCat Search API, which seems enough to me. I'm
personally pretty interested to see OpenLibrary taking a more organic
approach to vocabulary
I agree with Ed. It would be best to omit the statement about the
cover image if it doesn't actually exist.
Keith
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Ed Summerse...@pobox.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Karen Coyleli...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Does it work for folks if this returns either
OK, so we'll only include cover images if we can test for them. - kc
Keith Jenkins wrote:
I agree with Ed. It would be best to omit the statement about the
cover image if it doesn't actually exist.
Keith
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Ed Summerse...@pobox.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13,
Ed Summers wrote:
Also have you considered linking to the book covers in the
bibliographic data view using something like foaf:depiction and/or
foaf:thumbnail? For example:
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL6807502M foaf:depiction
http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/olid/OL6807502M-L.jpg .
Does it
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Karen Coyleli...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Does it work for folks if this returns either a cover OR a blank? (1x1 jpg).
It may be awkward to test first for an actual cover. Also, if it's ok to not
test for a cover, does anyone have a preference over the blank or a 404
Hello Karen,
Thanks so much for your detailed response.
Karen Coyle wrote:
The OL group has talked about linking to id.loc.gov, but in fact
the project folks are mainly interested in getting away from the
LCSH structuring of subjects. I admit that I find it hard to defend
LCSH in the
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Karen Coyleli...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Ed, I have NO IDEA how you got to rdf/xml from the OL author link -- do
tell, and I'll take a look! There is no RDF/XML export template for authors,
but one could be created. The URI/URL is simply the address of the author
Hi Karen,
Simply adding .rdf to the end of that link returns the RDF/XML Ed
mentioned, though invalid due to the namespace issue. Additionally, it
looks to me like content negotiation is functioning properly against the
author URIs as well as the bibs, which is fantastic.
I'd agree with
Karen,
I hate to say it but as someone who is working with the WorldCat Search API
at this point I sure could create code that used Open Library data faster if
you used one of the same metadata formats that the WorldCat Search API uses.
While the two services seem different, (I haven't really
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Coombs, Karen
Akacoo...@central.uh.edu wrote:
I hate to say it but as someone who is working with the WorldCat Search API
at this point I sure could create code that used Open Library data faster if
you used one of the same metadata formats that the WorldCat
Karen,
I assume that MARCXML is one of those formats? As for MODS, that's
possible although at the moment names would not be broken down. OL is
working on altering its storage of names to include separate given and
family portions, so that will be possible in the future.
Note that an
OK! thanks. There must be some default operating there... RDF for
authors is now on to do list! Here are the data elements available:
name
alternate names
website
birth date
death date
wikipedia link
FOAF doesn't cover death dates... RDA has death dates, alternate names.
Should FOAF be used
Karen,
The Bio vocabulary might help with the birth/death dates:
http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/.html
And foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_isPrimaryTopicOf
might be a good way to relate to the wikipedia page.
I don't have any recommendation for alternate names (and would be
Yes, the WorldCat Search API offers MARCXML. It is a bear to work with,
which is why MODS seems like a slightly better route. Smarter than DC but
not has beastly as MARCXML. I actually don't anything from the MARC fixed
fields right now. So the fact that that information is missing isn't a
I'd really appreciate some testing and any comments folks have. Thanks, kc
Original Message
Subject:[ol-tech] Modified RDF/XML api
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:32:25 -0700
From: Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net
Reply-To: Open Library -- technical discussion
Thanks, Karen, this is a really exciting development.
I was wondering, though, whether there is a plan to link any of the
Open Library data with existing linked data sets, for example:
dbpedia.org for authors/titles and id.loc.gov for subjects? I realize
that exposing data in RDF and
Aaron,
there has been talk about exposing the data in Open library as LOD, but
the project is currently focused more on creating an interactive site
for humans rather than a manipulable data store, although ideally those
two could co-exist. Right now there is some linking to Wikipedia
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