Thanks, Ed. MOre below: Quoting Ed Summers <[email protected]>:
> This looks great Karen! I particularly like all the foaf:page links -- > very webby. Would be nice to have the links to the books the person > wrote, but I guess that's harder than it sounds? It's on the list, but it's going to require adding code to the template. If you look at: http://openlibrary.org/upstream/templates/type/author/view.tmpl you can get an idea of what it takes to get the author hooked up to the works. I think this is going to require an OL programmer who knows where all of the pieces are. In comparison, the purely template-based output that I created is really pretty simple: http://openlibrary.org/upstream/templates/type/author/rdf.tmpl But it's limited to what actually exists in the author type record. http://openlibrary.org/type/author > > I noticed for the birth/death dates you have [1]: > > <bio:Birth><dcterms:date>"3 January 1892"</dcterms:date></bio:Birth> > <bio:Death><dcterms:date>"2 September 1973"</dcterms:date></bio:Death> > > Taking a look at some examples [2], I'm pretty sure you want to do > something like this instead: > > <bio:event> > <bio:Birth> > <bio:date>1892-01-03</bio:date> > </bio:Birth> > </bio:event> > > <bio:event> > <bio:Death> > <bio:date>1973-09-02</bio:date> > </bio:Death> > </bio:event> I will structure the birth and death dates within event. (I'm not at all clear about the WHY of this, but Dan Bri has made a deal with me to trade info on AACR with some explanation of RDF/XML. That's too good to pass up!) I can't use bio date because the dates aren't in a particular format -- they really are free text at this time -- which is too bad, but that's how it is. Some are just years, some are years like "circa 1856" and some will be "[1645?]" -- so until it becomes something other than free text it is safer to leave it as a literal in dcterms:date. Is that appropriate reasoning? kc -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
