Subject: Swedish union catalogue available as Linked Data
Newsgroups: gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib
Date: 2008-08-21 07:41:44 GMT (14 weeks, 5 days, 23 hours and 43 minutes ago)
Hi all, I would like to announce that LIBRIS[1], the Swedish Union Catalogue, is available as Linked Data[2]. Some examples, of which some may hurt your eye if looked at in a HTML- browser; never fear, in time they will become beautiful, and might even include a squiggly animation: The Difference Engine http://libris.kb.se/resource/bib/5060570 The Swedish Subject Heading for "Mödrar" (Mothers) http://libris.kb.se/resource/auth/154863 August Strindberg http://libris.kb.se/resource/auth/94541 The Royal Library: http://libris.kb.se/resource/library/S In a terminal window you can use "curl" to see the content negotioation in action: curl --include --location --header accept:text/rdf+n3 "http://libris.kb.se/resource/bib/5060570 " We have used a mix of ontologies (FOAF, SKOS, Bibliontology), focusing on availability first rather than perfect representation of the underlying MARC-record. That comes later. The RDF also exposes some partd of our FRBR-algorithm, showing links between records believed to belong to the same work. What we are working on right now is creating links to external datasets such as DBPedia/Wikipedia and between our own subject headings and to LCSH. This is pretty easily done once you have the data in RDF by the way. As this is a work in (hopefully constant) progress, any input is appreciated. And a discussion about Linked Data for libraries would be welcome. Best regards, Martin Malmsten 1. LIBRIS - http://libris.kb.se/ 2. Linked Data - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data