Exposing the records as Linked Data, rather than just plain old XML would be an interesting demonstration of how the library world can generate and, more importantly, curate massive amounts of data. They could then be linked to and from by other resources/services -- for example linking a copy of a book on Amazon as an Item to the Manifestation it's drawn from could allow for powerful graph oriented search.
Rob On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Riley, Jenn <jenlr...@indiana.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > At Indiana University we're working on a project that will help us see > concretely what FRBRized [1] library data and discovery systems might look > like. [2] One of our project goals is to share the raw FRBRized data widely > so that others can look at it to see how it's structured, reuse it, improve > on it, comment on the FRBRization effectiveness, etc. We're planning on > allowing remote/Web Services/API/SRU/some machine-to-machine method like > that access to the data. As we're starting to think about how we should set > that up, we thought it would be useful to gather some use cases from the > code4lib community, as it's the folks here that are experimenting with > services like this. So if there were FRBRized data available to you (at > least for FRBR group 1 and group 2 entities; *maybe* group 3 as well), what > would you do with it? What kinds of questions would your service (discovery > system, whatever) ask a service that made this data available? What kinds of > information would you want in a response? Would you have uses that called > for downloading of "all" data at once or would you instead be better off > with real-time queries to a web service? It's questions like that we're > interested in brainstorming with this group about. > > Basically, what type of access to the data we're generating is most > important, since we have finite resources to expend on this right now. > > Thanks, all! > > Jenn > > [1] http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF > [2] http://vfrbr.info > > ======================== > Jenn Riley > Metadata Librarian > Digital Library Program > Indiana University - Bloomington > Wells Library W501 > (812) 856-5759 > www.dlib.indiana.edu > > Inquiring Librarian blog: www.inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com >
