Ben and Anand, At Talis, we take the monthly data dumps and convert it to RDF and make it available (as well as provide a SPARQL endpoint over it).
I'm on my mobile right now (and will be travelling all day), so I can't really go into specific examples, but you can access it at: http://api.talis.com/stores/openlibrary Searching will return RDF in an RSS 1.0 feed (you might need to view source to see the RDF in a browser) and you can describe Open Library URIs directly. Anyway, that might be a start for some ideas how it could look. Thanks, -Ross. On Tuesday, January 3, 2012, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] >
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