If you want libraries to spend money on adding URI's to their data, there is going to need to be some clear benefit they get from doing it -- and it needs to be a pretty near-term benefit, not "Well, some day all these awesome things might happen, because linked data." On 4/30/14 1:34 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Thanks, Richard. I ask because it's one of the most common questions > that I get -- often about WorldCat, but in general about any source of > URIs -- "How do I connect my data (text forms) to their URIs?" And these > questions usually come from library or archive projects with little or > no programming staff. So it seems like we need to be able to answer that > question so that people can get linked up. In fact, it seems to me that > the most pressing need right now is an easy way (or one that someone > else can do for you at a reasonable cost) to connect the text string > "identifiers" that we have to URIs. I envision something like what we > went through when we moved from AACR name forms to AACR2 name forms, and > libraries were able to send their MARC records to a service that > returned the records with the new name form. In this case, though, such > a service would return the data with the appropriate URIs added. (In the > case of MARC, in the $0 subfield.) > > It's great that the "big guys" like LC and OCLC are providing URIs for > resources. But at the moment I feel like it's grapes dangling just > beyond the reach of the folks we want to connect to. Any ideas on how to > make this easy are welcome. And I do think that there's great potential > for an enterprising start-up to provide an affordable service for > libraries and archives. Of course, an open source "pass in your data in > x or y format and we'll return it with URIs embedded" would be great, > but I think it would be reasonable to charge for such a service. > > kc > > > On 4/30/14, 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis wrote: >> To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question. >> >> As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no >> difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data. >> >> Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to >> identify >> the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI < >> http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn}> to pick up the link to it’s work. >> >> Tools such as xISBN <http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm> >> can >> step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low >> volume >> usage. >> >> Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC >> Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this. >> >> Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask. >> >> ~Richard. >> >> >> On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a >>> bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to >>> it. >>> Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some >>> cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation. >>> >>> and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions: >>> a) is an OCLC member institution >>> b) is not >>> >>> Thanks, >>> kc >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant <[log in to unmask]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation >>>>>> concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty >>>>>> about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains. >>>>>> >>>>>> [3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html >>>>>> >>>>> Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once and >>>>> for >>>>> all: >>>>> >>>>> ALL THE THINGS. ALL. >>>>> >>>>> At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to >>>>> put >>>>> the >>>>> past in the past. >>>>> >>>> That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the >>>> recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :) >>>> >>>> Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as >>>> linked >>>>> open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked >>>>> data >>>>> world, then no one is paying attention. >>>>> Roy >>>>> >>>>> [1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html >>>>> [2] >>>>> http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million- >>>>> nuggets-of-linked-data/ >>>>> [3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811 >>>>> >>>> Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to >>>> open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack >>>> of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked >>>> yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given >>>> Works page) :) >>>> >>>> A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html >>>> B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data- >>>> licensing/questions.en.html >>>> >>> -- >>> Karen Coyle >>> [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net >>> m: 1-510-435-8234 >>> skype: kcoylenet >>> >> >> >