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.

Thanks for the covers suggestion -- I'll see if that can be added.

kc

Ed Summers wrote:
> Thanks for announcing this exciting news Karen. Are there any plans to
> improve the Author data view? For example the bibliographic
> description you pointed us at [1] references Lawrence Lessig using:
>
>   http://openlibrary.org/a/OL1518080A
>
> Which is really nice, and honestly enough to say you are doing
> linked-data IMHO. But when you resolve that URI you get a chunk of
> rdf/xml which isn't valid (no rdf namespace declared). If this could
> be fixed it might even nice to deliver up Authors using something like
> FOAF if possible.
>
> Also have you considered linking to the book covers in the
> bibliographic data view using something like foaf:depiction and/or
> foaf:thumbnail? For example:
>
>   <http://openlibrary.org/b/OL6807502M> foaf:depiction
> <http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/olid/OL6807502M-L.jpg> .
>
> Thanks again for taking the time to announce this new support.
>
> //Ed
>
> [1] http://openlibrary.org/b/OL6807502M.rdf
>
>
>   


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