Re: Recommendation: Plan for migration from Ed Summers on 2011-05-02 (public-lld@w3.org from May 2011)

From: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 14:34:03 -0400
To: public-lld <public-lld@w3.org>
Message-ID: <BANLkTinLCOA+9W_hLMwHLa-zxGao_HHesg@mail.gmail.com>

I like the idea of emphasizing Linked Data as an option for publishing
data, and de-emphasizing discussions around converting all our MARC
data over to RDF, followed by powering down the legacy MARC-based
systems.

For example, there is a lot of iterative work that ILS vendors could
do now to layer RDFa into existing OPAC displays, to make the data
easier to scrape, and for search companies to index. This would
necessarily imply thoughtful use of URIs as well. But it would not
mean that their back end data store would need to be thrown out, and
all their MARC data converted over to RDF.

//Ed

Received on Monday, 2 May 2011 18:34:30 UTC