- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 13:55:34 -0400
- To: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- CC: Rob Styles <rob.styles@talis.com>, public-lod@w3.org, Alexis Rossi <alexis@archive.org>, Kahle Brewster <brewster@archive.org>, Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>
Aaron Swartz wrote: > Exactly. We've still got a few more million records to import, so we > were planning to wait until that was finished before we did the dumps. > > Still, if people want to look at the output of the JSON APIs and > brainstorm about what the right RDF schema for the data would be, that > would be great and we can try publishing it for some test data on our > own servers. > Aaron, I believe you must have looked at the Bibliographic Ontology [1], right? If I recall, you've had some conversation with Frederick Giasson and some of the other members of this effort in the past. Links: 1. http://bibliontology.com/ Kingsley > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Rob Styles <rob.styles@talis.com> wrote: > >> Isn't it just crying out for it! :-) >> >> We (Talis) donated 5.7 million bibliographic records to the data at Open >> Library earlier in the year and have been talking to them about several ways >> we can help the project further. We've been talking to them a whole lot >> about minting URIs, some based on my Semantic Marc work and also the >> existing OL URIs for things. >> >> At the moment the raw contributed data is available for download from >> Internet Archive, but the processed, de-duped version (which OL have in >> ThingDB) is not yet available. Aaron says they'll be making that available >> soon. The plan is that once that's available we'll host a Linked Data >> version, with the usual content negotiation patterns with links to RDF >> output and the HTML and full-texts on openlibrary.org. >> >> :-> >> >> Rob Styles >> Programme Manager, Data Services, Talis >> tel: +44 (0)870 400 5000 >> fax: +44 (0)870 400 5001 >> direct: +44 (0)870 400 5004 >> mobile: +44 (0)7971 475 257 >> msn: mmmmmrob@yahoo.com >> blog: http://www.dynamicorange.com/blog/ >> irc: irc.freenode.net/mmmmmrob,isnick >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 16 May 2008, at 09:42, Chris Bizer wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I just saw this on programmable web: >>> >>> The Open Library has released an API now providing access to metadata >>> about 13.4 million books, including over 234,000 records with full-text for >>> the book. See: >>> >>> >>> http://blog.programmableweb.com/2008/05/16/open-library-api-cataloging-13-million-books/ >>> >>> Does anybody know if they are also working on a Linked Data interface to >>> their catalog? >>> >>> If not, this API really cries for a Linked Data wrapper :-) >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Chris Bizer >>> Freie Universität Berlin >>> +49 30 838 54057 >>> chris@bizer.de >>> www.bizer.de >>> >>> >> >> -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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