On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Karen Coyle<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Ed, I have NO IDEA how you got to rdf/xml from the OL author link -- do > tell, and I'll take a look! There is no RDF/XML export template for authors, > but one could be created. The URI/URL is simply the address of the author > page, and also considered the author identifier on OL. The nice thing about this linked data stuff is all you have to do is follow your nose: -- ed@rorty:~$ curl --include --header "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://openlibrary.org/a/OL1518080A HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/rdf+xml; charset=utf-8 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:01:32 GMT Server: lighttpd/1.4.19 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: Keep-Alive Age: 0 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <rdf:RDF xmlns:ol='http://openlibrary.org/type/author' > <ol:name>Lawrence Lessig</ol:name> <ol:personal_name>Lawrence Lessig</ol:personal_name> <ol:key>/a/OL1518080A</ol:key> <ol:type>http://openlibrary.org/type/author.rdf</ol:type> <ol:id>5209974</ol:id> </rdf:RDF> -- //Ed