- From: Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:41:19 -0400
- To: "Hugh Glaser" <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: lac <lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, "Bernhard Haslhofer" <bernhard.haslhofer@univie.ac.at>, "bernhard.schandl@univie.ac.at" <bernhard.schandl@univie.ac.at>, "SW-forum Web" <semantic-web@w3.org>, "MacKenzie Smith" <kenzie@mit.edu>, "Ian Millard" <icm@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: ... > >> But we should not lose sight of the fact there are a lot of other things > >> to be identified in an OAI repository. Having URIs for people, in > > particular, > >> is crucial. As far as I can see, the ability to uniquely identify an > >> author and editor has not been a strong issue in the OAI community, and > > we need > >> to encourage it. > > That's not fair. Name authorities are a big concern for librarians and > > 'repositarians', it's just that they have in general lacked a technical > > infrastructure for dealing with name<->id translation. And in a > > predominately google age that lacks LD services, little in the way of > > technology push for implementing them. > OK, agreed. Put it your way. I wouldn't be so quick to diplomatically brush this aside. The library world is finally taking steps into the semantic web [1], but there's still a lot of work to do here, and making name authorities suitable for the 21st century has to be a big one. Bruce [1] see Ed Summers' really excellent new work on converting LoC subject headings into linked data <http://lcsh.info>.
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