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
>



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