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 exposing linked open data do not
necessarily need to be synonymous but the richness of the Open Library
data set begs the question.
Thanks again!
Aaron
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Quoting Karen Coyle <li...@kcoyle.net>:
I'd really appreciate some testing and any comments folks have. Thanks, kc
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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 <ol-t...@archive.org>
To: Open Library -- technical discussion <ol-t...@archive.org>
The Open Library API that returns bibliographic data in RDF/XML has
been greatly modified. To make use of it, simply add '.rdf' to the
end of the bibliographic identifier:
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL6807502M.rdf
and of course it can be used in a curl command as:
curl 'http://openlibrary.org/b/OL6807502M.rdf'
The output relies heavily on DCMI Metadata Terms ("dcterms") [1] for
its properties, but also makes use of Bibliontology [2] and RDA
Vocabulary [3] where those present a better fit. Because it is in
XML, this provides what we hope will be an easy-to-use format that
makes use of commonly known metadata terms.
Not all data elements are included in the output, in particular
there is no attempt at this point to export the tables of contents
fields. That could be a future enhancement.
We would appreciate any comments you have on this API, as well as
suggestions and corrections.
There are a number of different bibliographic formats that we could
return in our APIs: MARCXML, MODS, EndNote import, ... I would be
particularly interested to hear if there are particular formats that
you would find immediately useful.
Thanks,
kc
[1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
[2] http://bibliontology.com/
[3] http://metadataregistry.org/schema/show/id/1.html
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