- From: Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:06:27 -0700
- To: public-vocabs@w3.org
On 5/20/14, 8:19 AM, Dan Scott wrote: > OCLC WorldCat uses "about" because it has linked data to which it can > link for each subject (for example > http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/864356553). This is not something which > most library systems are capable of at this point, unfortunately, but > certainly something to which we must aspire. OK, now I understand your thinking, because about has range Thing. So library data could use schema/keywords until the day that they are able to move from literals to identified thesaurus entries. I see no problem with that. I think your definition of keywords, as echo'd by DanBri, works well with that. kc > >> >> (III): >> >> Subject >> Iraq War, 2003-2011 >> Intelligence service -- United States >> United States -- Politics and government -- 2001- > > http://alice.library.ohiou.edu/record=b4532222~S7 is an example of the > most recent III library system and it doesn't express any schema.org > metadata either. > > So: for the existing library systems that currently express schema.org > and the existing properties they can use given the very realistic > constraint of only being able to express subject headings as short text > strings that look a whole lot like keywords or tags, > http://schema.org/keywords still seems like the best option. > > > -- Karen Coyle kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
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