- From: Panzer,Michael <panzerm@oclc.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:27:31 -0400
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Hi all, I would like to announce the availability of the DDC Summaries as a linked data service that uses SKOS and other vocabularies for representation [1]. Please take a look if you like. Comments, suggestions, and advice are really appreciated! Dewey.info makes the top 1000 classes of the Dewey Decimal Classification available in nine languages. The service does some content negotiation to determine whether to serve XHTML+RDFa or RDF/XML. Other serializations (Turtle, JSON) are available also. The content is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND, expressed in RDFa and RDF using the ccREL properties. An overview of the service can be found in the OCLC Developers Network wiki [2]. Some URLs to try: http://dewey.info/class/641/ http://dewey.info/class/641/about.rdf http://dewey.info/class/641/2009/about.fr http://dewey.info/class/64/2003/ http://dewey.info/class/6/2003/08/about.de.rdf http://dewey.info/class/6/2003/08/about.de.html http://dewey.info/class/6/e22/about The DDC Summaries, while being a relatively small part of the DDC, are hopefully a good first step to get a feel for a couple of things: developing a SKOS model for a large universal classification; structuring access to multilingual and time-variant KOS data; testing URI patterns; etc. More will be added after the initial approach has been weighed on the scales. At the moment, (most of) the data is only linked to itself, but since the DDC is actively used worldwide and has been widely applied and mapped to other vocabularies, other links (and some more languages) should be added soon. Cheers Michael [1] http://dewey.info [2] http://worldcat.org/devnet/wiki/DeweyInfoTechOverview
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