On 5/12/2010 8:21 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:

> Quoting Lee Passey<[email protected]>:
>>
>> Can you provide a link to a description of the "Dublin Core export format?"
>
> It's just a document at this point, and needs to be updated to take
> into account recent changes:
>
> http://openlibrary.org/about/infogami-dc
>
> comments and suggestions welcome.
>
> In terms of the data format, I don't think anything has been decided.
> These could take the place of the native OL data elements in JSON, or
> could be used with another data format.

I'm sorry, I had assumed that the "Dublin Core export format" was a 
format defined by an organization /other/ than OpenLibrary; that is, if 
I had an application that accepted data in the "Dublin Core export 
format" I could process it regardless of the source. If this were not 
the case, then Mr. Suhonos' request should already be satisfied by the 
RDF API already in place.

What you have provided in the above link is a mapping between the 
somewhat fluid OpenLibrary schema and Dublin Core elements. This mapping 
will no doubt be helpful to OL developers (or others) in building 
software to generate the "Dublin Core export format," but it does not 
define what the "Dublin Core export format" actually is.

So, is there such an animal as the "Dublin Core export format?" (Other 
than http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-rdf/index.shtml, which seems to 
already be supported by OL's ReSTful API.) If so, can someone tell me 
where it is defined?
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