- From: Alistair Miles <alistair.miles@zoo.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:38:54 +0000
- To: Thomas Baker <baker@sub.uni-goettingen.de>
- Cc: SWD Working Group <public-swd-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:27:08AM +0100, Thomas Baker wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> The ID.LOC.GOV Web Service site [1] is reporting that LCSH will
> be back online in 6-8 weeks:
>
> Initially, within 6 to 8 weeks, the Library of
> Congress will release its first offering: the
> Library of Congress Subject Headings. This will
> be an almost verbatim re-release of the system and
> content once found at the popular prototype lcsh.info
> service. The primary exception will be that the
> URIs for the data values will no longer take the form
> http://lcsh.info/{identifier}. Instead, they will start
> with http://id.loc.gov/authorities/{identifier}. If you
> have used the legacy lcsh.info metadata in an application,
> we advise updating to the new URIs, as we cannot guarantee
> a permanent redirect from old lcsh.info URIs to the new
> URIs at id.loc.gov.
>
> The site says "The initial services offered are influenced
> by -- and therefore implement -- the Linked Data movement's
> approach of exposing and inter-connecting data on the Web
> via dereferenceable URIs" and lists several other standards
> in the publication pipeline.
>
> A round of applause for Ed and Clay...! :-)
Yes, this is great news!
Alistair
>
> Tom
>
> [1] http://id.loc.gov/
>
> --
> Tom Baker <tbaker@tbaker.de>
>
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Alistair Miles
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