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I haven't seen a friendly use of SPARQL (or search in general), and would love to see one -- especially one that combined library data and any other data set (geographic, whatever). It does seem to me that the search aspect of SemWeb is still a bit weak. In my imagination, it allows me to do the kinds of things I can do with Yahoo Pipes, which is to mash-up data from various sources and then do something interesting with it. My usual example (heck, my only example) is to answer the question: What's the earliest edition of [book title]? A simpler one would be: Who wrote [book title]? What I want is to get an answer, not a gazillion bibliographic records. kc Quoting Roy Tennant <[log in to unmask]>: > 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 > > > On 10/28/09 10/28/09 € 7:31 PM, "David Kane" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> I was wondering if anyone was aware of semantic web technologies being >> used in the context of libraries and library search? >> >> I know that Talis are active in this area. Does anyone have links to >> any specific resources or projects that they know of in this area? >> >> Thanks, >> >> David. >> > -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet