Re: RDA and ranges

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>  We already have (at least?) two examples of library catalogue data being
>> published as linked data (http://libris.kb.se and
>> http://nektar2.oszk.hu/librivision_eng.html). They go for a much simpler
>> approach to expressing the core bibliographic data as linked data.
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> Can you point to where their linked data is to be found?  It's not obvious
> from the URLs provided.
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> http://blog.libris.kb.se/semweb/?p=7 gives some detail for libris.kb.se,
and also documented to some extent in this paper
http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/ojs/pubs/article/viewArticle/927

The Hungarian National Catalogue has documentation at
http://nektar.oszk.hu/wiki/Semantic_web


> Absolutely: give the world a set of pegs on which to hang their own
> assertions about bibliographic materials.
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> As you broaden out the audience for this data beyond librarians, most of
> the data in a MARC record won't be of interest in any case.
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> Agreed that audience for detailed bibliographic information is niche -
although I think it goes beyond librarians


> That's one approach: another is to stick with the project of developing a
> coherent bibliographic ontology, using e.g. FRBRoo to tie in with other
> areas of cultural heritage.
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I don't see this as necessarily either/or

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