- From: Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 04:52:45 -0500
- To: public-xg-lld@w3.org
- Cc: public-lld@w3.org
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Young,Jeff (OR) <jyoung@oclc.org> wrote: > To answer the question on bulk access to VIAF, the current policy is that > somebody needs to request it. So far, there hasn’t been significant demand > for the RDF representation. Where would be a good place to request it? I've had some offline conversations with Thom Hickey where he said there were potentially some licensing things to sort out before dumps could be made available generally. I realize it can sometimes be computationally challenging to dump a changing dataset like VIAF, and that there can be significant costs to making dumps available. An alternative could be something like a sitemap, like what OCLC uses to provide access to crawlers of WorldCat [1]. This would make it possible for crawlers to keep synchronized views of the data. We use Atom in a similar way at id.loc.gov [2] since it has some facilities for paging, indicating when records have been deleted, and linking out to different representations (similar to how libraries have traditionally used oai-pmh). A nice side effect of a sitemap solution is that people will find these troves of author information when they search for them [3]. As a result the VIAF URLs will hopefully get referenced more in places like Wikipedia, OpenLibrary, Freebase, etc. For me, this is what Library Linked Data is all about ... using URLs as identifiers for the things we care about in libraries. //Ed [1] http://www.worldcat.org/robots.txt [2] http://id.loc.gov/robots.txt [3] http://www.google.com/#q=site:viaf.org
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