AW: LD and Redundancy

Since libraries are already starting to publish linked open bibliographic data - which is a good thing! -, each one with its own uris, which is unavoidable, the importance of co-reference services (such as sameas.org) will grow. Since the already used identities for catalog records are much wider spread than for authorities, I'm not sure that a centralized model for building clusters (like VIAF) or a pre-declared central hub ("everybody maps to WorldCat/OpenLibrary/whatever") could work. 

An important issue for the report, indeed, even if we were not able to suggest solutions.

Cheers, Joachim

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: public-lld-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-lld-request@w3.org] Im Auftrag von Karen Coyle
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. März 2011 15:31
> An: public-lld
> Betreff: LD and Redundancy
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> The small group working on the "issues" section of the report 
> has run into something that I think is a question for the 
> whole group and list
> subscribers:
> 
> Library catalogs today, between them, have a high redundancy 
> of bibliographic descriptions for commonly held items. If we 
> anticipate much of the bibliographic data becoming linked 
> data, is this redundancy a problem? If so, what types of 
> solutions should we be looking at? If not, why not?
> 
> Thanks!
> kc
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