RE: Books identifications

Cyril,

Here's a (partial) mockup I made of your example so we can start to look at the issues involved:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68401641/cyril/data.ttl

I tied the things to existing URIs where I could. This should be enough data to start imaging various queries and gaps. We can add more detail as questions arise.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cyril Otal [mailto:cyrilo@bookeen.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 8:26 AM
> To: Young,Jeff (OR)
> Cc: semantic-web@w3.org; public-schemabibex@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Books identifications
> 
> cathy.dolbear@oup.com wrote
> > I'm a little confused by your use of "editor" in your example  - do you really
> mean "publisher"? And most vocabularies use the term "volume" rather than
> "tome".
> 
> You're right. Sorry for my bad English and my hazardous translations.
> 
> Nicolas Chauvat and Jeff Young : I appreciate your answers about vocabularies.
> It's interesting, since it seems to be works to implement them in RDF.
> 
> But I want to focus on identifiers (the first step of semantics), because even
> without a Triple store, it would be better to use the right identifiers to add
> more interoperability and prepare the semantic migration.
> 
> cathy.dolbear@oup.com wrote
> > If you're interested specifically in identifiers for books, the ISBN can be useful,
> but bear in mind it only refers to the work in a particular format - so there
> would be a different ISBN for F1 and F2 in your example.
> 
> Could you be more specific ?
> Will E1B, E2B1, E2B2, E3B1, E3B2, E3B3, and E4B (physical books) have 7
> different ISBN?
> Will F1B, F2B1 and F2B2 (digital files) have 3 ISBN different?
> 
> I've read somewhere that a publication in several volumes will get one ISBN,
> and each volume get one different too. Is that true?
> 
> And still about ISBN : do you recommend ISBN 13 or GTIN-13?
> 
> > If the book is published online, you can use its DOI as its URI
> > instead
> 
> A book can have a DOI and no ISBN ?
> 
> Why in Onix files[1] they are so many different identifiers? Or in BIBO[2]?
> What are their relations?
> 
> And what about ARK[3]?
> 
> Wikidata identifiers sound nice, but there is no authority to attribute them, and
> no warranty that each book will be identified.
> 
> Thanks all for your thinkings!
> 
> Regards,
> Cyril
> 
> 
> [1] : http://www.stison.com/onix/codelists/onix-codelist-5.htm
> [2] : http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/ (all rdfs:subProperties of
> http://purl.org/dc/terms/identifier ) [3] :
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Resource_Key

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