 |
 |
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Ed, thanks. I'll need you to be a bit more -v on this one: are you asking > for a an RDF option on the API, or that Works as a whole be represented as > linked data? The Open Library doesn't present itself as linked data, as you > know, and although that would be very interesting I don't think that's on > their production schedule for the near future. Well you do have a nice start at some Linked Data views already in Open Library, e.g. http://openlibrary.org/b/OL8123073M.rdf I guess what I was suggesting is that you link these Expressions up with their respective Works where you know the relations, perhaps using Ian Davis' FRBR vocabulary? I don't think this precludes a handy web2.0 API like what OCLC and LibraryThing offer already ... but there's an opportunity to make the Linked Data views you have already quite a bit richer I think. That being said, I'm probably in a minority view here thinking that the Linked Data pattern has something to offer. Queue the Tim Spalding rendition of Don't Believe the Semantic Web Hype :-) //Ed [1] http://vocab.org/frbr/