RE: FAST released as linked data

Karen,

Sorry for the confusion. The software isn't currently capable of
delivering raw XML without an XSL Stylesheet reference. Hopefully that
will be changed soon. In the mean time, these "raw" documents are
superficially indistinguishable from their HTML variants because they
are getting rendered in the browser. Until this gets fixed, we're stuck
with awkward explanations about how and when "view source" can be used. 

For now, pretend that this is how the "Record Views" section will get
streamlined:

MARC21: (HTML) (XML*)
RDF: (HTML) (XML*)
*Click and "view source" to see the raw XML

We're not publishing RDFa.

Hope this helps. Suggestions are welcome.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Coyle [mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 9:55 PM
> To: public-lld
> Subject: FAST released as linked data
> 
> The faceted version of LCSH that was a joint project of OCLC and LC
> (FAST) has been released as linked data. The LD solution is one I
> haven't seen before and I'm hoping some list members can help me
> understand it. Here is a link to a page that is a response to clicking
> on "RDF/XML":
> 
> http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/862730/
> 
> The instructions say to view source to see the RDF. I did that, but
> now I would really like someone to tell me what I'm looking at... is
> that RDFa?
> 
> I believe that the entries in the FAST vocabulary are more likely to
> find matches "in the cloud" than those in LCSH because the FAST
> entries are less complex. Most of them are single terms rather than a
> two or more dash-dashed entries. (The remaining dash-dashed ones are
> often geographic headings with, for example, a state and a city or a
> country and a city.) Already FAST is linked to GeoNames, which is a
> good step. (I thought LCSH was also linked to GeoNames but I can't
> find an example to confirm that.)
> 
> Here's a geographic entry:
> 
> http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/1205143/
> 
> kc
> 
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