On 28 March 2012 14:19, Pascal Christoph <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:19:46 +0200 schrieb [email protected] : > >> Or we may use information from those individual libraries: the second >> VIAF ID for you, Karen, <http://viaf.org/viaf/195531823/rdf.xml> has a >> link to the DNB: <owl:sameAs >> rdf:resource="http://d-nb.info/gnd/181194619"/>. Whereas this >> particular example doesn't work because the DNB has no link back to >> VIAF, the RDF/XML from DNB for J.K. Rowling does: >> http://d-nb.info/gnd/122340469/about/rdf. >> So when we know the Gemeinsame Normdatei identifier for someone or >> something, we may look up the VIAF ID via that road. > > Be aware that *not all* GND URIs identifies _persons_ - some identifies only > the _name_of_the_person_ . I.e. http://d-nb.info/gnd/115541543 (where are all > publications are listed where the author is named "Friedrich Schiller" > ("Publikationen von Autoren mit diesem Namen"="publications of authors with > that name")). > Interestingly these only-name-identifier-URIs have no RDF representation and > thus may not be linked in VIAF or Wikipedia ( however, they _may_ be linked as > in our library LOD service "lobid.org". We linked them via the predicate > "dc:creator" (which can be a name , in contrast to "dcterms:creator" which > identifies a person)). > > oo > Thanks Pascal, that is a good thing to keep in mind. Just to make sure I understand correctly: the Friedrich Schillers at the link, er, URI you provided may not all be the same person? You could the URI identifies a search result, or a class of publications. There are other types of names too, I noticed: occupations, subject headings etc. Of course GND stands for Gemeinsame Normdatei (combined data) :) Anyway, I wasn't proposing to go through all GND IDs and trying to match them, just the ones that already have a link to VIAF. If <DNB URI> owl:sameAs <VIAF URI> it is easy :) DNB offers a file with CC0'd RDF about people at https://wiki.d-nb.de/display/LDS/Dokumentation+des+Linked+Data+Services+der+DNB although I keep getting HTTP 500 errors trying to request those files. The example file does show that there are owl:sameAs links in the RDF.
So in lobid.org, you treat the name as an RDF resource (that has a GND URI)? Interesting. No offense intended, but does that make more sense than using the literal value? What if there are several Friedrich Schillers and the names are split by the DNB into several persons? I have been thinking to do something similar when I'm ready to publish my family tree as RDF, to relate names to their origins. But I am not sure whether I would use foaf:name to connect name and person, as foaf:name seems to be 'designed' for literals. Ben _______________________________________________ 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]
