- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 15:58:53 +0100
- To: Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@gbv.de>
- Cc: public-lld@w3.org
On 9 November 2011 15:46, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss@gbv.de> wrote: > Has anyone started to express patron data in RDF? I guess you find most > building blocks in FOAF and SIOC Ontology, but some patron information, such > as fines, holds, pending checkouts and reservations etc. is very library > specific, so some new Ontology classes/properties may be needed. If I had to > create an RDF representation of core patron data, I'd start with NCIP, maybe > parts of NCIP can be mapped to RDF. However I only want to know whether > anyone has already done something in this area. What's the use-case? e.g. internal structure of an RDF-backed library system maybe? I was looking around recently to see if I could find any bulk (aggregate, 'anonymised', etc) loans data, but it seems a pretty taboo topic due to the privacy concerns. Since RDF is largely about sharing data, I'm curious if you have a particular use in mind. Re loans data and their un-shareability, if that info could be kept long enough *within* a library to compute similarities and generate recommendations, sharing the results of such processing would be interesting. However I have the impression that many (all? most?) libraries try to keep such data for as short a time as possible... Sorry to drift offtopic; interesting initial question! Dan
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