On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:44:29AM -0400, Ed Summers wrote:
> OpenLibrary is already using the DublinCore vocabulary in its
> metadata, just like WorldCat Search API, which seems enough to me. I'm
> personally pretty interested to see OpenLibrary taking a more organic
> approach to vocabulary selection, mixing and matching vocabulary
> elements rather than imposing a particular metadata world-view. I'm
> also pleased to see OpenLibrary's approach to thinking about the
> resources they are publishing on the web ("A URL For Every Book"), and
> providing metadata for those resources in a way that fits in
> seamlessly with the web.
Agreed on the mixing and matching. That's what all these wild
vocabularies live for!
Gabriel
