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 interested in knowing of any, myself). All this isn't to discourage using the RDA vocabulary for any of this, but my concern is that its complexity, lack of documentation and kitchen sink approach will be daunting, especially for people coming from outside the library domain. I sort of look at RDA as the "ontology of last resort". -Ross. On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Karen Coyle<li...@kcoyle.net> wrote: > 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 where possible, adding in RDA to fill in? There are a > lot of elements they have in common. > > kc > > Ed Summers wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Karen Coyle<li...@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 >>> page, and also considered the author identifier on OL. >>> >> >> The nice thing about this linked data stuff is all you have to do is >> follow your nose: >> >> -- >> >> e...@rorty:~$ curl --include --header "Accept: application/rdf+xml" >> http://openlibrary.org/a/OL1518080A >> HTTP/1.1 200 OK >> Content-Type: application/rdf+xml; charset=utf-8 >> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:01:32 GMT >> Server: lighttpd/1.4.19 >> Transfer-Encoding: chunked >> Connection: Keep-Alive >> Age: 0 >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> >> <rdf:RDF >> xmlns:ol='http://openlibrary.org/type/author' >> >> <ol:name>Lawrence Lessig</ol:name> >> >> <ol:personal_name>Lawrence Lessig</ol:personal_name> >> >> <ol:key>/a/OL1518080A</ol:key> >> >> <ol:type>http://openlibrary.org/type/author.rdf</ol:type> >> >> <ol:id>5209974</ol:id> >> >> </rdf:RDF> >> >> -- >> >> //Ed >> >> >> > > > -- > ----------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------ >
