Quoting Ed Summers <e...@pobox.com>:
I realize it's of limited utility compared to yet another web2.0 API,
but I think it would be good to see Works represented somehow in the
RDF Linked Data views...assuming they're not already.
//Ed
Ed, thanks. I'll need you to be a bit more -v on this one: are you
asking for a an RDF option on the API, or that Works as a whole be
represented as linked data? The Open Library doesn't present itself as
linked data, as you know, and although that would be very interesting
I don't think that's on their production schedule for the near future.
kc
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Karen Coyle <li...@kcoyle.net> wrote:
Open Library now has Works defined, and is looking to develop an API for
their retrieval. It makes obvious sense that when a Work is retrieved via
the API, that the data output would include links to the Editions that link
to that Work. Here are a few possible options:
1) Retrieve Work information (author, title, subjects, possibly reviews,
descriptions, first lines) alone
2) Retrieve Work information + OL identifiers for all related Editions
3) Retrieve Work information + OL identifiers + any other identifiers
related to the Edition (ISBN, OCLC#, LCCN)
4) Retrieve Work information and links to Editions with full text / scans
Well, you can see where I'm going with this. What would be useful?
kc
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