Hi Laura,
I've done some work on this in the UK[1][2] and there have been a number of
associated projects looking at the open release of library, archive and museum
metadata[3].
For libraries (it is different of archives and museums) I think I'd sum up the
reasons in three ways - in order of
Lack of demand, particularly since many catalogs contain a lot of garbage
metadata and/or resources that others cannot access. Plus, the information goes
stale quickly. Not that there's no use for this information, but not that many
people are asking.
Also, despite declarations to wanting to
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I have few thousand CD's and DVD's of images scanned back in the days of
more expensive server storage. I want the files on these transferred to a
hard-drive or cloud storage where I can get at the them and sort out the
keepers etc.
I have seen a lot of great home-built auto-loader machines, but
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:
This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
[3]
We are using a product called the Ripstation (http://www.mfdigital.com/)
for this purpose. Here's a link to some of our internal training
documentation on using it:
https://wiki.cites.illinois.edu/wiki/display/LibraryDigitalPreservation/Using+the+Ripstation
.
We've found it to be a bit buggy (it
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to
it. Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in
some cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I
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To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to identify
the OCLC Number and hence use
Thanks, Richard. I ask because it's one of the most common questions
that I get -- often about WorldCat, but in general about any source of
URIs -- How do I connect my data (text forms) to their URIs? And these
questions usually come from library or archive projects with little or
no
What about OpenRefine?
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Thanks, Richard. I ask because it's one of the most common questions that
I get -- often about WorldCat, but in general about any source of URIs --
How do I connect my data (text forms) to their
If you want libraries to spend money on adding URI's to their data,
there is going to need to be some clear benefit they get from doing it
-- and it needs to be a pretty near-term benefit, not Well, some day
all these awesome things might happen, because linked data.
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Jonathan, I think we can point to some interesting benefits. If you take
a look at what the BBC has done with their Wildlife site [1] and then
look at the new FAO catalog [2] you can see how a page can be enhanced
with useful data based on URIs in the bibliographic records. Imagine
being able
Obviously openRefine will be used in many applications, but you've got
to get your data TO openrefine, and you've got to do some programming to
do that, and then to return the data to however you store it. OpenRefine
is a great tool, but not a complete solution, IMO.
kc
On 4/30/14, 10:47 AM,
Jonathan,
Different communities have different benefits.
1. Library catalogers, at least, seem sold on the idea of using URIs if
they can then populate the display value of fields with strings. I've been
giving them this scenario for about 4 years now, and they're sold. This
would
Also, this:
OCLC identifiers, and Linked Data URIs, are always in the public domain.
Independent of the data and/or information content (which may be subject to
individual licensing terms open or otherwise) that they identify, or link
to, OCLC identifiers (e.g. OCLC Numbers, VIAF IDs, or WorldCat
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On Apr 30, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Derek Merleaux wrote:
I have few thousand CD's and DVD's of images scanned back in the days of
more expensive server storage. I want the files on these transferred to a
hard-drive or cloud storage where I can get at the them and sort out the
keepers etc.
I have
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Roy, the question that I have is, as I say below, about DISCOVERABILITY
of URIs, not intellectual property issues. It's great that there are
lots of URIs for useful things out in the world, but they don't jump
into your data store on their own through some kind of magic. To me, the
big problem
Richard covered the options pretty well from our perspective. That is, if
you have an OCLC number in hand you are in really good shape, and can use
software to make appropriate linkages. If you don't have an OCLC number,
then it is (as I have experienced myself) pretty much a world of hurt.
You
Karen,
There are tools out there, like the OpenRefine[1], and specifically the
Reconciliation Service API's [2] which can be built to interact with it,
which are meant to help solve this problem. For instance, the there is a
third-party VIAF Reconciliation service [3] built on top of the VIAF API
On 4/30/14, 6:37 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
In the end there may need to be reconciliation services just like we had
similar services in the card-catalog-to-digital years.
Roy
Roy, yes, that's what I'm assuming. I think we are indeed in the same
leaky boat we were in in the 1970's when all of a
If libraries aren't willing to put in the the effort to make their own data
more useful and connected, then I don't think they are going do much of
anything useful very with linked data cake served on a silver platter.
Are you really suggesting that we cede linked data creation, management and
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