The Talis Cenote [http://cenote.talis.com/] application that Ross
references is a thin (open Sourced [http://www.talis.com/tdn/node/1718]
php application) on top of the Talis Platform
[http://www.talis.com/tdn/platform] Web Services.
The Platform contains generic data stores, three of which are used by
the Cenote Application - Bib data, holdings data, and jacket images.
These stores are RDF based and the data within them is semantically
linked to produce the combination results set which Cenote supplies to
the user.
As to size, the ukbib store [http://api.talis.com/bf/stores/ukbib/items]
contains approx 10 million records, and the holdings store
[http://api.talis.com/bf/stores/holdings/items] approx 4 million. Note
the URL's I provide here are to the raw APIs which give you the results
back in RSS based XML, it is this that Cenote, or any application that
can transform XML into a user interface, uses.
So in answer to your question, yes there are RDF based stores that scale
that can hold bibliographic data.
If you have any questions, or want a more detailed description, let me
know.
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist, Talis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ross Singer
> Sent: 21 May 2007 14:45
> To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Next Gen Catalog and FRBR
>
> Ok, then, a good example is:
> http://cenote.talis.com/
>
> and somewhat more crude would be:
> http://simile.mit.edu/longwell/demo/libraries/
>
> which uses a small subset of their library catalog and their
> dspace instance
>
> and, in a slightly more abstract implementation:
> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/52074ba6-e495-4ef3-9bb4-0703888a
9f68.html
>
> -Ross.
>
> On 5/21/07, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
> > Ross Singer wrote:
> > > http://simile.mit.edu/
> > >
> > >
> http://esw.w3.org/topic/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData
> > > /DataSets
> > >
> > Hm, I was thinking of systems that not only show how RDF data might
> > look like but also what conventional OPACs do (or at least some of
> > their indispensable functions) but then with value-added features
> > based on RDF, to make it apparent where and how this can do new and
> > better tricks.
> > And on a scale of at least a million records more or less
> equivalent
> > to MARC records.
> >
> > B. Eversberg
> >
>
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