Re: Links and sources

Hi Guglielmo,

I've made some edits to the docs to add more clarity.

Dublin Core defines its source property as "A related resource from which the described resource is derived." [1] For example, if you scrape information from a legislature's website, you may want to put the URL to the scraped page(s) in "sources".

Links can be any URLs to documents about a person - whether or not you use that document as a source of information for your database. For example, a link might be to a Twitter profile, Facebook page, Wikipedia page, etc.

Another difference is in terms of use case. Relatively few people will be interested in the sources. However, for a researcher, or for a person who wants to check your work, it's important to share sources. Links will be interesting to a broader audience. Many people are interested in knowing their representatives' social media links, for example. Storing information for each use case separately makes it easier to implement software around those use cases.

Does that help clarify the difference?

James

1. http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-source

On 2013-09-03, at 9:42 AM, Guglielmo Celata wrote:

> I am trying to understand the difference between links and sources, which are used thorough the protocol, 
> to map the documents and the documents sources about the given entity.
> 
> Maybe the choice is the result of a discussion, in case forgive my question, please.
> 
> Guglielmo Celata
> Developer
> Associazione Openpolis
> 
>

Received on Tuesday, 3 September 2013 21:39:32 UTC