There are a number of bug reports relating to the RDF. I started one here where I was trying to gather all of the desired changes:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/openlibrary/+bug/703664 I wasn't able to make the changes due to the lack of a development/testing environment. However, I will add in the ones below so that we have a running list. kc Quoting Ross Singer <[email protected]>: > 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] >> > -- 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]
