> Hi all > I got this from one the mailing lists I am on. I think useful for > BibDesk. This looks like a real effort to standardize and maintain > journal bibliographic information online. I wonder if also some > developers could be brought in from this group to write code for BD > to hook up with the proposed database. Whatever thoughts are > generated on the list I will send back (if it's useful) in the > interest of getting support for the project and also I hope > generating further interest in BD. > > Adam > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: chrisc <[email protected]> >> Date: April 14, 2009 9:42:55 AM EDT >> To: Bibliographic Ontology Specification Group >> <[email protected] >> > >> Subject: Linked periodical data >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> >> >> A bunch of us have been discussing the possibility of putting >> together >> a linked data source [1] of periodical data, curated and maintained >> by >> the community for the purposes of linking together descriptions and >> uses of periodical data over the web. We see a few immediate use >> cases: >> >> a) Allowing 3rd party tools and services to look up key information >> about periodicals e.g. short title, ISSN etc. >> b) Provide a project-neutral linking hub to unify descriptions of >> periodicals (and potentially later articles etc.) between or even >> within datasets. Kind of like a dbpedia [2] for periodical data. >> c, and probably much later) Foundation of an open linking or link >> resolver hub. The KBART project out of UKSG recommended looking at >> standardization around KBs... >> >> Obviously, to be useful from the outset, such a service needs to have >> a critical mass of data to get started with. Our thoughts so far >> revolve around conversion of sets in the public domain such as the >> jake data [3] and potentially TicTocs [4]. >> >> Following that we envisage that data could be added by way of a >> crawler, or even by simple submission to the site via browser plug in >> or bookmarklet? Perhaps there are developers of tools out there that >> would benefit from this service that would consider integrating >> submission of data to the service in their tool or product. >> >> At the moment our thoughts around the basic shape of the data would >> be >> something like this: >> >> <http://periodicals.org/131344> a bibo:Journal ; >> dct:title "Journal of American of Book-Lovers"@en ; >> bibo:shortTitle "JABL"@en ; >> bibo:issn "23439823" ; >> dct:subject whatever:x . >> >> This simple fragment of data could then be the jumping off point to >> other descriptions of the same periodical on the data web. >> >> I guess users could browse and click around the graph via a HTML >> interface, or request RDF/XML, N3 and JSON via content neg. We could >> add some simple search and a SPARQL end point on top of, this too. As >> a community project, I personally would envisage that a dump of the >> entire dataset would be available for download. >> >> By posting this message I'm hoping to encourage discussion, uncover >> further use cases, find other members of the community who would be >> interested in this project. >> >> DISCLOSURE: I work for Talis. I think a project of this type would >> fall under the Connected Commons [6] terms and conditions, and thus >> qualify for free data hosting and API access. I personally would like >> to put some time, technology and effort into making this happen. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Chris >> >> [1] http://linkeddata.org/ >> [2] http://dbpedia.org/About >> [3] http://jake.openly.com/ >> [4] http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ >> [5] http://www.talis.com >> [6] http://blogs.talis.com/n2/cc
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