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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Roy Tennant wrote: > David, > Could you elaborate a bit? In my mind, the only "semantic web technology" of > any note is "linked data". How that fits into "library search" is anyone's > guess, and I'm wondering what, specifically, you're referring to when you > say that Talis is active in this area. > > If you are asking about library linked data, then there are several > examples, most notably the Library of Congress[1], the Swedish Union > Catalogue [2], and OCLC[3][4]. I believe that a minimum both the Library of > Congress and OCLC plan on releasing more linked data sets. > > So can you elaborate a bit more on what, exactly, you're seeking? Thanks, > Roy > > [1] http://id.loc.gov/authorities/ > [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/4617 > [3] http://dewey.info/ > [4] http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2009/09/viaf-as-linked-data.html For some other information on what other groups are doing in this regard, the DCMI (Dublin Core) just had a meeting in Korea two weeks ago, with the theme "Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data" http://www.dc2009.kr/ And there was a CENDI/NKOS workshop that I attended last week, that featured many of the same speakers. http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/2009workshop/NKOS-CENDI2009.htm Both sites have presentations linked from their sites. I can forward on my notes from the CENDI/NKOS workshop, but I'll warn you in advance that I wrote them for a different intended audience (folks on an interoperability project that I'm attached to), so I might've trimmed some stuff that's of general interest to folks in libraries, while bringing out stuff that isn't. The CENDI folks are all US Government, but there seems to be a wider range of people in NKOS. I don't know how much of it fits into the typical 'library' definition, other than the Library of Congress stuff that was already mentioned. -Joe