Re: Possible use case

Hi Karen

+1 for this.

Of interest also is how "subjects" are or will be included in the RDF
publication.
In your example of "Edition" the subject value is a blank node representing
a DDC classification in DC namespace.
It's OK although direct URIs for DDC entities would be simpler (things we
could consider in the use case)

OTOH at http://openlibrary.org/subjects/halley's_comet I don't see any
indication of an RDF description, but in records such as
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL141696W.rdf the subject "Halley's comet" is
plain text value of dc:subject.

Those examples point at central issues re. names vs URIs vs identifiers and
definitely it seems a good use case I would gladly work on.

Bernard


2010/8/12 Karen Coyle <kcoyle@kcoyle.net>

> I have a possible use case but it may be too specific. I was thinking of
> writing up the actual effort being made to export Open Library entities in
> RDF. There are three entities: Work, Author, and Edition. They do not
> strictly follow library practice, which is what makes them interesting as
> cases, IMO.
>
> Here are some examples. Assume that the RDF in each case is only one
> possible solution:
>
> Author in UI: http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL22022A/Barbara_Cartland
> Author RDF: http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL22022A.rdf
>
> Work in UI: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL6037025W/Code
> Work in RDF: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL6037025W.rdf
>
> Edition (Manifestation + Expression, more or less) in UI:
>   http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6807502M/Code
> Edition in RDF: http://openlibrary.org/books/OL6807502M.rdf
>
> Some of the issues that the case would raise are:
>  There are many versions of FRBR - does it matter which one you use?
>  We have frbr:Person, RDA:Person, foaf:Person, FRAD:Person.... again, how
> to decide?
>  There are many elements in library data that do not yet have an
> identifier; how does one approach that?
>
> Or is this too specific for a use case?
>
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