Quoting Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu>:
Right, so like I keep saying, as far as I can tell, those files are
lists of URLs, one for each code. (Or technically lists of
RDF-triples, but where two parts of each triple is identical in
every triple just saying "this URL is part of the marc geographic
vocabulary", and then each triple has a unique URL representing a
code).
And I'd need to do a seperate HTTP request for each code ( a couple
hundred?) to actually get the label(s).
I'm not sure why you see it as separate requests, unless the
downloaded file doesn't work for you -- but maybe I don't understand
what you are trying to do. The downloaded full file has the display
data and the codes:
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/fq";>
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept"/>
<rdf:type
rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Resource"/>
<owl:sameAs rdf:resource="info:lc/vocabulary/gacs/fq"/>
<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Africa, French-speaking
Equatorial</skos:prefLabel>
<skos:notation
rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string";>fq</skos:notation>
<skos:inScheme
rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas"/>
<skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">Africa, Equatorial</skos:altLabel>
<skos:narrower>
<skos:Concept>
<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Chad, Lake</skos:prefLabel>
<skos:broader
rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/fq"/>
</skos:Concept>
</skos:narrower>
<skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">French Equatorial Africa</skos:altLabel>
<skos:altLabel xml:lang="en">French-speaking Equatorial
Africa</skos:altLabel>
<skos:exactMatch
rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85001608#concept"/>
<skos:broader
rdf:resource="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/f"/>
<vs:term_status>stable</vs:term_status>
<skos:changeNote rdf:nodeID="fq"/>
so if ypu pick out the value in prefLabel and the value in notation
you have what you need, no? (admittedly, this is NOT the same as a
simple, comma delimited list!)
<skos:prefLabel xml:lang="en">Chad, Lake</skos:prefLabel>
<skos:notation
rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string";>fq</skos:notation>
Am I missing something? That's not a very convenient way to get the
data for the very common use case of wanting to construct a mapping
from code to label, right? Or that's just me?
What would be nice would be a simple XSLT transform that turns out a
CSV on the fly, always getting the latest values.
No?
kc
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