Quoting Gene Fieg <[email protected]>:
And since RDA is supposed to help us get on board with the Semantic Web,
could someone give me an example of a record that is already on the Semantic
Web? Where is it? How does one find it?
There are big chunks of library data that have been expressed in
SemWeb formats which you can find at:
http://ckan.net/group/bibliographic
Unfortunately, without downloading huge amounts of data there's
nothing for humans to see. Sometimes the documentation for the
projects gives examples.
You can see individual records in RDF from the Open Library. There is
RDF (the SEmWEb data format) for Works, Authors, and Editions (the
latter being a kind of combination of Expression and Manifestation).
HEre's how you see those:
Author:
Author URL: http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL39307A/Dan_Brown
RDF: http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL39307A.rdf
Work:
work url: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W/The_Da_Vinci_code
RDF: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W.rdf
Edition:
Edition url: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23247061M/The_Da_Vinci_code
RDF: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23247061M.rdf
From this I think you can see the pattern for getting any ones you want.
Since these are all in RDF/XML you may need to view source or download
the result in order to see the rdf -- it depends on your browser and
what it does with XML.
There are some "cataloger use cases" that have SemWeb/RDA examples on
the DCMI/RDA Working Group wiki:
http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/Scenarios
Click on the link that looks like "Scenarios/1" by each scenario and
you will see an encoded form of the record.
We did these AGES ago, and are about to go back and edit them since
the RDA data elements weren't "cooked" yet. But I think the general
idea doesn't change.
I'm also working on developing a small database of records for some
tests that people are interested in doing. These will be somewhat
minimal records (because that's the only way to make it a reasonable
task) and the data will be taken from MARC records. If anything comes
out of that that is human-readable, I'll definitely make it available.
kc
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