Hi all,
At Indiana University we're working on a project that will help us see
concretely what FRBRized [1] library data and discovery systems might look
like. [2] One of our project goals is to share the raw FRBRized data widely
so that others can look at it to see how it's structured, reuse it, improve
on it, comment on the FRBRization effectiveness, etc. We're planning on
allowing remote/Web Services/API/SRU/some machine-to-machine method like
that access to the data. As we're starting to think about how we should set
that up, we thought it would be useful to gather some use cases from the
code4lib community, as it's the folks here that are experimenting with
services like this. 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.
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
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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
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