OK! thanks. There must be some default operating there... RDF for 
authors is now on to do list! Here are the data elements available:

name
alternate names
website
birth date
death date
wikipedia link

FOAF doesn't cover death dates... RDA has death dates, alternate names. 
Should FOAF be used where possible, adding in RDA to fill in? There are 
a lot of elements they have in common.

kc

Ed Summers wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   


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