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It would make perfect sense for LC to publish the LCNAF in their id.loc.gov domain. I think the foaf:focus pattern is important for "name authorities", though, and would encourage them to coin two URIs instead of just one. For example:

<http://id.loc.gov/authorities/n50042127#concept> a skos:Concept ;
	skos:inScheme < http://id.loc.gov/authorities#nameAuthorityFooBar>
	skos:prefLabel "Bourbaki, Nicolas" ;
	skos:altLabel "Burbaki, N."
	foaf:focus <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/n50042127#thing> .
<http://id.loc.gov/authorities/n50042127#thing> a owl:Thing .

I wouldn't want to tell LC how to model the #thing resource, but I think it is important for them to at least coin a placeholder identifier for it so it doesn't get confused with the #concept.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Jonathan Rochkind
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 2:34 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Planned changes to the VIAF RDF
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> I like that you said "when" rather than "if", heh.
> 
> Have you guys at VIAF made it clear to LC that you'd consider them
> publishing in linked data to be a complement to VIAF, rather than
> duplication? I think maybe some people think it'd be duplication, which
> I think is not true.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Young,Jeff (OR)
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 1:50 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Planned changes to the VIAF RDF
> 
> Update:
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> 
> Somebody offline asked why the diagrams have links to external Swiss
> and German authority resources, but not LC.  The reason is that LC
> doesn't currently publish their name authority file as linked data.
> When they do, the owl:sameAs links to their URIs can be added to VIAF.
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> 
> The only VIAF contributors we're aware of today that publish their own
> authority Linked Data are Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, National Library
> of Sweden, and the National Széchényi Library (Hungary).
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> 
> Jeff
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> 
> From: Young,Jeff (OR)
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:21 AM
> Subject: Planned changes to the VIAF RDF
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> 
> Thom Hickey posted a blog entry about our plans to streamline the VIAF
> RDF.
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> http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2011/04/changes-to-viafs-rdf.html
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> I can elaborate on the listserv if anyone wants to discuss the changes.
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> Jeff
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