A Library Linked Data Use Case

I've not been able to pay much attention to the list, though I've lurked since the beginning.

Here's my use case.

First, some background.

I am developing a business that aims to bring ebooks into the public commons (CC or related licenses). For that to happen for ebooks with commercial value (i.e. that people want to read) money will need to be raised to acquire the relevant rights from authors and publishers. To raise that money, I need to gather people and institutions with interest in particular books or lists of books who want to "support" conversion to a creative commons ebook.

I would like to use a mechanism similar to a Facebook "Like" button to connect pages from library online catalogs and library related websites to "support" pages. When a user clicks a "support" button, my system would collect metadata from the webpage of interest. RDFa/BIBO+DC would be a likely format for such metadata. My system would take the metadata and use it to link to a supported work or list of supported works in our catalog.

This should be very similar to what is required for a link into a biblio-social network such as LibraryThing, GoodReads, or Mendeley, except we'd want an added attribute linking the item to the source institution.

In principle, this use case could be also be addressed by OpenURL or COinS, but LD tool support should speed implementation significantly.

I apologize in advance if this duplicates other use cases.



Eric Hellman
President, Gluejar, Inc.
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Montclair, NJ 07042
USA

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