Longwell Developers, Well, the subjects a little "obscure" and I'm not sure I have the right terminology, but heres the question in more detail.
In DSpace we can have an Item with an Author name that is for the same person but has multiple variants.... > Hal Abelson > H. Abelson > Abelson, H. > Abelson, Hal The resulting import into Longwell would maintain each of these values separately. (excuse my poor n3 abilities)... > <http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37585> <dc:contributor> "Hal Abelson" > <http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38487> <dc:contributor> "H. Abelson" > <http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38487> <dc:contributor> "Abelson, H." > <http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37600> <dc:contributor> "Abelson, > Harold" (And certainly they are each valid variants of Hal Abelson's name). I'm concerned that "some of us" out there perceive it to be Longwells current capability that by simply "adding" RDF statements that designate that these are equivalents, then Longwell will magically allow you to have these reduced to an "agreed upon" single value such that (I don't really know n3... I'm making this up as I go)... > "Hal Abelson" <owl:SameAs> <xxxx> > "H. Abelson" <owl:SameAs> <xxxx> > "Abelson, H." <owl:SameAs> <xxxx> > "Abelson, Harold" <owl:SameAs> <xxxx> where > <xxxx> <rdfs:label> "Harold Abelson" And that by adding these sorts of statements to Longwell (or something "like" them), it will begin replacing those values with that "Label"? That maintaining such mappings in longwell will allow Longwell to magically clean our metadata and reduce duplicate values that occur in the facets. I ask this because my interpretation of what you could do with Longwell was that you could develop a Sail for Sesame that was able to "filter" such equivalencies, but you had to know them "long before" you data was actually placed into longwell. That basically your just "filtering" the data before it gets stored... Not very exciting... why not just do it before you sent longwell the rdf in the first place? Any clarification on Longwell's "actual capabilities" in this area would seriously assist us in evaluating it a valid tool to base a discovery UI on for DSpace and reduce any misconception that I feel going on in our MIT Libraries group. My concern is that Longwell is being perceived as a mechanism to "cleanup" presentation of Metadata, where I see its actual behavior to be more based on the old premise of "garbage in, garbage out". My analysis needs to determine if our group is actually realistic in its expectations of Longwell's capability and correct those viewpoints if it is not actually the case. thanks, Mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Developer and Systems Manager MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
