Thanks, Karen, this is a really exciting development.
I was wondering, though, whether there is a plan to link any of the
Open Library data with existing linked data sets, for example:
dbpedia.org for authors/titles and id.loc.gov for subjects? I realize
that exposing data in RDF and exposing linked open data do not
necessarily need to be synonymous but the richness of the Open Library
data set begs the question.
Thanks again!
Aaron
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Quoting Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]>:
> I'd really appreciate some testing and any comments folks have. Thanks, kc
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [ol-tech] Modified RDF/XML api
> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:32:25 -0700
> From: Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Open Library -- technical discussion <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Open Library -- technical discussion <[log in to unmask]>
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> 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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