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
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