I'll chip in here, rather than adding to your page, because I would like
to get some feedback from the list as to whether I'm out on a limb here
(given the lack of response to my last couple of posts).
I would like the author information in OL to be better, and to be
better-connected. Authors are people too (allegedly) and they offer a
possibility, maybe the only possibility, of cross-linking OL to other
(non-bibliographic) Linked Data resources. Obviously there's a
trade-off here, in that we don't want to put contributors off by being
too demanding, but:
* the RDF provided for authors could make better use of the
information currently available. For a start, it should include a
list of "is author of X" statements to link them to their works
within OL. It should also include Wikipedia identifiers where these
are present in the data
* with a little gentle encouragement, we could make the author birth
and death date information usable in a machine-processing sense.
Most dates are already useful as entered, despite the lack of guidelines
* we could enable the (structured) recording of place of birth and
death. There are a handful of these in the data already, crammed in
on the end of the date field
Author names could be looked up on dbpedia, and if there is an existing
entry (a) the link can be included in the OL data and (b) details like
DoB/PoB can be copied from that source into the OL data.
Richard
On 31/08/2013 04:40, Karen Coyle wrote:
I added a new community page for ideas:
http://openlibrary.org/community/ideas
I have seeded it with two of my favorites:
1) making it easy to add new books (similar to LibraryThing's book add)
2) ideas for keeping OL up to date with Library of Congress
kc
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*Richard Light*
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