> I think Code4libbers will know more about my question about distributed
> INDEXES? This is my rudimentary knowledge of linked data - that the
> indexing process will have to transit the links, and build a local index to
> the data, even if in displaying the individual "records", it goes again out
> to the source. But are there examples of distributed systems that have
> distributed INDEXES? Or Am I wrong in envisioning an index as a separate
> entity from the data in today's technology?
>
>
I'm a little confused by what you mean by distributed index in a linked
data context. I assume an index would have to be database implementation
specific, while data is typically exposed for external consumption via
implementation-agnostic protocols/formats, like a SPARQL endpoint or a REST
API. How do you locally index something remote under these constraints?

-Sarah



> Cindy Harper
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harper, Cynthia
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 1:20 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]; 'Williams, Ann'
> Subject: RE: linked data question
>
> What I haven't read, but what I have wondered about, is whether so far,
> linked DATA is distributed, but the INDEXES are local? Is there any
> example of a system with distributed INDEXES?
>
> Cindy Harper
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AUTOCAT [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Williams, Ann
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:26 AM
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> Subject: [ACAT] linked data question
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> I was just wondering how linked data will affect OPAC searching and
> discovery vs. a record with text approach. For example, we have various 856
> links to publisher, summary and biographical information in our OPAC as
> well as ISBNs linking to ContentCafe. But none of that content is
> discoverable in the OPAC and it requires a further click on the part of
> patrons (many of whom won't click).
>
> Ann Williams
> USJ
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