Re: Library data is expressed primarily as text strings

Quoting "ZENG, MARCIA" <mzeng@kent.edu>:


> I especially agree with Antoine about this heading ""Library controlled
> vocabularies are
> expressed as text strings". The text strings are usually used as the
> values in practices. A vocabulary itself does not have to be
> expressed/represented in only one way.

But for linked data it does need to be expressed as a URI, not a text  
string. And the topic of our report is linked data. Linking is between  
URIs, and text strings are "dead ends" in the LD environment. They can  
be used (indexed, compared, displayed, etc.) but not linked in the LD  
sense.

So maybe what we want here is to say that *most* library controlled  
vocabularies do not have URIs *yet* (with LCSH and a few others being  
exceptions).

kc


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