Ben, thanks for taking a close look at this. It is unfortunately true that there are no archives for the Archive.org lists, although they would be handy in this case. (There are social issues for not keeping them, not technical ones.)
First, we might want to pick a record that has a more full description, since this one doesn't have subject headings or notes. Alternatively we could edit this one to have what we need, and then revert it later. (I'm thinking along the lines of "subject 1" "subject 2" kind of thing.) Second, we need to decide the usual "FRBR question" -- should we use FRBR relationships even though they are not a perfect match? (The OL "Edition" is a FRBR Manifestation+Expression.) Some other details: 3 - Works can also have multiple authors. We need to decide whether to repeat dcterms:creator or use the bibo:authorList wrapper. I believe that authorList was used with the assumption that keeping the order of authors is important. However, I'm not at all sure that OL does maintain the order of authors. My vague recollection is that the translation from MARC data to OL puts the MARC main author (100) into OL/author and the remainder of authors (700's) into dc:contributor or bibo:contributorList. But since the records can be edited there could be multiple authors that are added later. 4 - I'm not sure what the right way is to include the edition information along with the work data. I'm thinking that the Work should have a URL link to the "manifestation" and the rdf:Description for each edition should be a separate description, outside of the <frbr:Work></frbr:Work> I'm sure there's more, but that's a quick set of thoughts. kc Quoting Ben Companjen <[email protected]>: > Hi Anand, > > Using an example work/edition by a greatuncle of mine, I attached two > edited RDF files, one for the work and the other for the edition. > > Work like it is now on OL.org: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL16419933W.rdf > Edition: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL25154702M.rdf > > Some perhaps less noticeable changes I made: > - all edition URIs now end with '/' (why do all work and edition URIs > end with '/', whereas author URIs don't, by the way? I'd say lose > them, like they appear in Talis's search results.) > - added FOAF-namespace to both files; > - added rdrel-namespace to the edition file; > - copied the work's author to the edition's bibo:authorList; > - added the names of contributors to the edition's (new) > bibo:contributorList - although they lost their specific roles. > > Regards, > > Ben > > P.S. Perhaps I should say I'm pretty new to the developers' side of > Open Library, so I only noticed the Launchpad and RDF related issues > after Karen's mail and Github after visiting the OL Launchpad > homepage. I thought I'd look through the archives before sending > anything, but there appears to be no archive? > > > On 3 January 2012 09:52, Anand Chitipothu <[email protected]> wrote: >> > [snip] >> >> 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]
