Dear all, I'd like to start a discussion on improvement of Open Library's RDF output. I had asked OL Support for inclusion of the Work URI in a Book's RDF, but was asked to redirect my question/feature request here.
I envision myself using OL as a reference catalog for my personal book collection, modeled as Linked Data. My catalog could consist of, at the very minimum, RDF triples like: <URI that identifies the book (Item) in my bookcase> <http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#exemplarOf> <URI that identifies an Edition of a Work in OL>. Looking up the latter should retrieve everything I need to know about the edition and the work. In the output of Edition records as RDF I notice: - there is no link from an Edition of a Work to the Work; - the list of authors (bibo:authorList) is empty, or rather: it's a line break and some whitespace. Extra contributors, added when editing an edition, are not included. In the output of Work records as RDF, I see: - the relation between <dcterms:creator> and name (a Literal) is <rdf:value>, whereas I'd expect something like <foaf:name>; - the record of a Work contains descriptions of its Editions, which do contain the URI of the Work it manifests, but the URI is a quoted literal instead of an rdf:resource; - there is a lot of whitespace. What do others think? Not every point raised here needs as much attention as the rest, of course. Regards, Ben Companjen _______________________________________________ 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]
