I'd really appreciate some testing and any comments folks have. Thanks, kc
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Subject: [ol-tech] Modified RDF/XML api
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:32:25 -0700
From: Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]>
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To: Open Library -- technical discussion <[log in to unmask]>
The Open Library API that returns bibliographic data in RDF/XML has been
greatly modified. To make use of it, simply add '.rdf' to the end of the
bibliographic identifier:
http://openlibrary.org/b/OL6807502M.rdf
and of course it can be used in a curl command as:
curl 'http://openlibrary.org/b/OL6807502M.rdf'
The output relies heavily on DCMI Metadata Terms ("dcterms") [1] for its
properties, but also makes use of Bibliontology [2] and RDA Vocabulary
[3] where those present a better fit. Because it is in XML, this
provides what we hope will be an easy-to-use format that makes use of
commonly known metadata terms.
Not all data elements are included in the output, in particular there is
no attempt at this point to export the tables of contents fields. That
could be a future enhancement.
We would appreciate any comments you have on this API, as well as
suggestions and corrections.
There are a number of different bibliographic formats that we could
return in our APIs: MARCXML, MODS, EndNote import, ... I would be
particularly interested to hear if there are particular formats that you
would find immediately useful.
Thanks,
kc
[1] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
[2] http://bibliontology.com/
[3] http://metadataregistry.org/schema/show/id/1.html
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