RE: FAQ- structured data about historical book collections

Jim,

Thanks for this. If I understand right, these PROV classes answer the desiderata in my inquiry, i.e. how to show entities changing over time. But can any items in PROV specifically be used to create a library catalog LOD entity? (I don't have a library/information science background, but have learned just enough to be dangerous.)

Thanks again,

Colin


From: Jim McCusker [mailto:mccusker@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 12:34 PM
To: WILDER, COLIN
Cc: public-esw-thes@w3.org
Subject: Re: FAQ- structured data about historical book collections

For historical collections, the PROV ontology makes it possible to talk about historical things using prov:specializatonOf, prov:wasGeneratedAtTime, and prov:wasInvalidatedAtTime. See http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-primer/#alternate-entities-and-specialization-1 for an example. There would be, essentially, "revisions" of the library catalog that are linked together to a more abstract "time-invariant catalog". This concept is similar to FRBR's relationship between Expression and Work.

Jim

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:43 AM, WILDER, COLIN <WILDERCF@mailbox.sc.edu<mailto:WILDERCF@mailbox.sc.edu>> wrote:
Dear W3C,

I am relatively new to the semantic web. I am the associate director of the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina in the US. Over the past year we have created a web-based data curation platform for historical humanities research called RL (http://tundra.csd.sc.edu/rol/). Right now we are preparing a proposal to expand the program to include pulling in linked data from the web and pushing out public data in RL's data commons as LOD. We have tracked down what we think are appropriate vocabularies to describe most of the entity types in RL (persons, their relationships, books they've written), but are still having a hard time finding vocabulary for a few outstanding types.

One is historical book collections, for instance the catalog of 1000 books in the Frankfurt Public Library two centuries ago. Such information might be published in RL and we would like to find a way to structure it as LOD to publish and share it on the web. Another data type is enrollment in a class - to describe person X as having taken class C from person Y. A third type would be travel - to show that persons X and Y took a trip together, traveling say from place M to place N, leaving at one time and arriving at another.

Anyway, if you can offer me any guidance I would be very grateful.

Thanks again,

Colin Wilder



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