Re: A Library Linked Data Use Case

Thanks again for this use case, Eric!

I've put it on our wiki at 
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Use_Case_Support_This_Book_Button

I've reformatted it and added some details. Here's how it reads now:

==Name==
Support This Book Button

===Owner===
Eric Hellman, eric@hellman.net

===Background and Current Practice===
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.

===Goal===
Speed implementation and adoption of a "support this book" button by using Linked Data. The "support this book" button will provide an indication of how many people have already indicated that they want to read this book.

===Use Case Scenario===


===Application of linked data for the given use case===
Embed a button in webpages with embedded RDFa

===Existing Work ''(optional)''===

* OpenURL
* COinS
* biblio-social networks such as LibraryThing, GoodReads, or Mendeley (but also need to keep track of the source institution with an additional attribute)
* Creative Commons licenses
* Facebook Like button, and in general, embedding RDFa

=== Related Vocabularies (optional) ===
* CiTO (but deals with a different scenario for linking)
* BIBO
* Dublin Core

===Problems and Limitations===
* Which vocabularies to use?
* Convincing others to adopt and use such a button

===Related Use Cases and Unanticipated Uses ''(optional)''===


===Library Linked Data Dimensions / Topics===


===References (optional) ===


Let me know if you have any updates or changes!

Best,

Jodi

On 3 Feb 2011, at 21:46, Eric Hellman wrote:

> 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.
> 41 Watchung Plaza, #132
> Montclair, NJ 07042
> USA
> 
> eric@hellman.net 
> http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/
> @gluejar
> 
> 
>