FYI on the architecture of RDF:
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue14/what-is/
I hope this helps.
Joy Roberts
Catalog Librarian
Collection Management
220C James W. Miller Learning Resource Center
St.Cloud State University
720 Fourth Avenue South
St.Cloud, MN 56301-4498
Tel.: (320) 308-4771
E-mail: aproberts_at_stcloudstate.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Bernhard Eversberg
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:56 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Next Gen Catalog and FRBR [rdf]
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 - 06:36:15 EDT