AW: New release of GND data from the German National Library and important bugfix in the LinkedData-Service

Great to see - makes our library resources even more valuable for the Semantic Web!

Cheers, Joachim

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: semantic-web-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:semantic-web-request@w3.org] Im Auftrag von Svensson, Lars
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Mai 2011 19:05
> An: public-lld@w3.org; public-lod@w3.org; 
> public-esw-thes@w3.org; semantic-web@w3.org; 
> pedantic-web@googlegroups.com
> Betreff: ANN: New release of GND data from the German 
> National Library and important bugfix in the LinkedData-Service
> 
> [Please excuse cross-posting]
> 
> The German National Library has updated its service 
> publishing the German library authority files as linked data. 
> The most important change is a bugfix solving a critical flaw 
> in the URI patterns and http redirects used so far. In the 
> old version of the service, we incorrectly used the same URI 
> to identify the entity and its HTML description, which was 
> noted on the pedantic web [1]. This has now been fixed and e. 
> g. http://d-nb.info/gnd/119053071 (identifying Herta Müller) 
> now correctly 303s to 
> http://d-nb.info/gnd/119053071/about/html or (when using 
> Accept: application/rdf+xml) to 
> http://d-nb.info/gnd/119053071/about/rdf .
> 
> There are also new RDF dumps of the datasets available.
> 
> Further information, including links to several RDF dumps, is 
> available at [2].
> 
> [1] 
> http://groups.google.com/group/pedantic-web/browse_thread/thre
ad/dc58b0b03723009d?pli=1
> [2] https://wiki.d-nb.de/display/LDS 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Lars
> 
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> --
> Dr. Lars G. Svensson
> Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / Informationstechnik 
> http://www.dnb.de/ l.svensson@dnb.de
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