Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-11 Thread Richard Wallis
On 10 December 2011 13:14, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: I don't believe that anyone is saying that we have a goal of having a re-serialization of ISO 2709 in RDF so that we can begin to use that as our data format. We *do* have millions of records in 2709 with cataloging based on AACR

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-11 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Richard Wallis richard.wal...@talis.com: I agree with your sentiment here but, from what you imply at http://futurelib.pbworks.com/w/page/29114548/MARC%20elements, transformation in to something that would be recognisable by the originators of the source Marc will be difficult - and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-11 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Simon Spero s...@unc.edu: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@talis.comwrote: *A record is a silo within a silo* * * A record within a catalogue duplicates the publisher/author/subject/etc.information stored in adjacent records describing items by the

Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-11 Thread Kevin Hawkins
This is more for creating books than uploading existing ones, but maybe that would work for you. http://pressbooks.com/ On 2:59 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: To be clear: I need a platform where regular users, logged in or not, can upload new books through a web interface. Does that leave me with

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-11 Thread Simon Spero
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Quoting Simon Spero s...@unc.edu: From a logical point of view, a bibliographic record can seen as a theory -that is to say a consistent set of statements. There may be records describing the same thing, but the theories

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-11 Thread Lars Aronsson
On 12/11/2011 08:52 PM, Simon Spero wrote: The point I was trying to make is not related to any kind of display- it is about how the meanings of the statements derived from a record are only The reality that library catalog records try to record is the physical book, and in particular its

Re: [CODE4LIB] Availability of data-enabled temporary SIM cards

2011-12-11 Thread KREYCHE, MICHAEL
Nope, I really meant that some unlocked devices will work fine on T-Mobile's voice network but T-Mobile is blocking the data service on them. I have one such device, the Huawei S7, a 7 Android phone/tablet. When it first came out a little over a year ago people were using it on T-Mobile's data

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-11 Thread Simon Spero
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: On 12/11/2011 08:52 PM, Simon Spero wrote: The point I was trying to make is not related to any kind of display- it is about how the meanings of the statements derived from a record are only The reality that library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-11 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Simon Spero s...@unc.edu: These issues are orthogonal to the point I'm trying to make, which is that records are collections of related assertions, and that the interrelationship between these assertions is a necessary part of their meaning. Simon Simon, I agree that there are

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-11 Thread Richard Wallis
Karen, On 11 December 2011 15:18, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Quoting Richard Wallis richard.wal...@talis.com: I agree with your sentiment here but, from what you imply at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-11 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Richard Wallis richard.wal...@talis.com: You get the impression that the BL chose a subset of their current bibliographic data to expose as LD - it was kind of the other way around. Having modeled the 'things' in the British National Bibliography domain (plus those in related domain