On 02-Jan-2012, at 4:37 AM, Ben Companjen wrote: > 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.
Hi Ben Companjen, Can you please make a RDF response with your suggestions for a sample edition record? I can convert that into a template for generating RDF in OL. Anand _______________________________________________ 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]
