Hi Karen,

Simply adding .rdf to the end of that link returns the RDF/XML Ed 
mentioned, though invalid due to the namespace issue.  Additionally, it 
looks to me like content negotiation is functioning properly against the 
author URIs as well as the bibs, which is fantastic.

I'd agree with Ed's postulation that you're basically already doing 
linked-data.  The fact that the following does what I'd expect is great:

> curl -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml" http://openlibrary.org/a/OL1518080A

Adding to the chorus, thanks for announcing this.

-Corey


Karen Coyle 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.
> 
> 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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