Quoting MJ Suhonos <[email protected]>:
Let me give another example: the Open Library API returns a JSON
tree, eg. http://openlibrary.org/books/OL1M.json
But what schema is this? And if it doesn't conform to a standard
schema, does that make it useless? If it were based on DCTERMS, at
least I'd have a reference at
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ to define the semantics
being used (and an RDF namespace at http://purl.org/dc/terms/ to
boot).
Ah, after my own heart! I have tried to convince the OL folks to
translate their data to dcterms, even did a crosswalk for them. Right
now they're in panic mode over a major milestone, but once that's over
I may ping you to make this request directly to them on one of their
lists. If they only hear it from me, it might just be a personal quirk
of mine, right?
kc
p.s. The JSON API output doesn't require any programming when it uses
their data elements; it does do crosswalk to dcterms.... that's been
the hangup. Then again... their code is open source, the crosswalk I
did is linked from the launchpad entry here [1] so if anyone wants to
contribute...
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/openlibrary/+bug/277509
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