As an aside thought, it occurred to me during this discussion that an
open-sourced IBDB (International Book Database) - a la IMDB, would be grand Web
2.0 and 21st Century project. Has Amazon and Open WorldCat and other similar
services made an open IBDB an impossible dream?
What if you
On Nov 1, 2006, at 11:56 PM, Tim Spalding wrote:
It seems to me this functionality should be embedded in other
applications-LibraryThing, for example, or WorldCat, or really any
library catalog. How about popping OpenFRBR data up whenever you're on
a page in Amazon, a la (and perhaps
Right, but CDDB is mostly about retrieval, not editing. OpenFRBR needs
to embed its *editing* functions within something else, don't you
think? Certainly, once it has data, it should offer itself via APIs
like xISBN and thingISBN.
PS: Desktop home cataloging software Bah! ;)
On 11/2/06,
Spalding
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 9:10 AM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenFRBR
Right, but CDDB is mostly about retrieval, not editing. OpenFRBR needs
to embed its *editing* functions within something else, don't you think?
Certainly, once it has data, it should
I think you are better off designing for real cases than made up ones.
But I think you can find a real one that meets all the criteria you want
anyway---doesn't Harry Potter fit that description of your made up book?
Lord of the Rings is another good one. What's the point of a made up one?
The
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenFRBR
I think you are better off designing for real cases than made up ones.
But I think you can find a real one that meets all the criteria you want
anyway---doesn't Harry Potter fit that description of your made up book?
Lord of the Rings
Hi,
You may be interested in OpenFRBR:
http://www.openfrbr.org/
Its aim is to build a full, free implementation of FRBR, showing
everything it can do, and looking for problems along the way. Everyone's
welcome to get involved in whatever way they wish.
I can't get to that site (is
I'm having trouble getting to it too.
I'd be interested to know how LibraryThing can help. As you know,
we've got something FRBR-esque—user-driven not algorithmic.
Tim
On 11/1/06, Alexander Johannesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
You may be interested in OpenFRBR:
On 11/1/06, Alexander Johannesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
You may be interested in OpenFRBR:
http://www.openfrbr.org/
Its aim is to build a full, free implementation of FRBR, showing
everything it can do, and looking for problems along the way. Everyone's
welcome to get
On 2 November 2006, Alexander Johannesen wrote:
I can't get to that site (is it down?), but a few words on what you're
trying to do (is it a technical approach, model approach, philosophical
approach?), and how you want to do it would be great.
It's back up now. Sorry about that. Some
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