Re: Next Gen Catalog and FRBR [rdf]

From: Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_nyob>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 09:56:23 +0200
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>> 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.
>
> All the data files a part of the Alex Catalogue are saved in RDF such
> as:
>
>   Berenice - http://tinyurl.com/2wxgjt
>
> Presently I only use the RDF for full-text indexing purposes, and
> there are only 14,000 texts a part of the system.

Sorry, but I fail to see how that answers any of my questions.
Esp., what can RDF do that MARC really couldn't?

B.Eversberg
Received on Tue May 22 2007 - 01:48:15 EDT