 |
 |
Quoting "Riley, Jenn" <[log in to unmask]>: > Hi all, > So if there were FRBRized data available to you (at > least for FRBR group 1 and group 2 entities; *maybe* group 3 as well), what > would you do with it? What kinds of questions would your service (discovery > system, whatever) ask a service that made this data available? What kinds of > information would you want in a response? Would you have uses that called > for downloading of "all" data at once or would you instead be better off > with real-time queries to a web service? It's questions like that we're > interested in brainstorming with this group about. Take a look at the Open Library's use of entities: http://upstream.openlibrary.org When you search on a subject, you get a subject entity/page. When you search on an author, you get an author entity/page. Information about the subject and the author, plus the relationships are available in current data (related subjects, related persons, etc.) are all there. For users, I think that the group 2 and 3 entities and the various relationships are key to discovery. After that, what relationships you can derive from the data gives users a way to navigate (rather than search). It would be ideal to have an actual entity for each of the FRBR 1, 2 and 3 entities. We could even create entities that aren't exactly in FRBR, such as for publication dates, publishers, languages. And the main view is not of a single entity, but an entity in relation to other entities. What's nearby? What happens when I combine these two? (Also see WorldCat Identities as an example of data that can be shown in relation to a person entity.) kc > > Basically, what type of access to the data we're generating is most > important, since we have finite resources to expend on this right now. > > Thanks, all! > > Jenn > > [1] http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF > [2] http://vfrbr.info > > ======================== > Jenn Riley > Metadata Librarian > Digital Library Program > Indiana University - Bloomington > Wells Library W501 > (812) 856-5759 > www.dlib.indiana.edu > > Inquiring Librarian blog: www.inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com > -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet