As a possible place to go from here, I would recommend the W3C page on Semantic Web use cases and case studies. Among other points of interest is a feature which provides for different ways of looking at the (still rather small) collection in terms of categorized search facets:
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/
Another relevant destination is the NISO site, where a pdf copy of the OpenURL standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.88 2004: The OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services) can be easily obtained upon returning a brief user survey form:
http://www.niso.org/standards/standard_detail.cfm?std_id=783
Searching around on a related combination of descriptors (rdf openurl), I find that an interesting paper about using RDF to generate bibliographic metadata for journal articles (Qualified Dublin Core using RDF for sci-tech journal articles, by Thomas G. Habing, Timothy W. Cole, and William H. Mischo) was apparently presented at DC-2001 in Tokyo:
http://www.nii.ac.jp/dc2001/proceedings/product/paper-36.pdf
Thanks to Owen and Eric for steering discussion in this direction.
Grace Wiersma
Cataloging & Metadata Services
MIT Libraries
gwiersma_at_mit.edu
(617) 253-0643
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 11:11 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Link resolvers as loosely coupled systems for holdings?
Stephens, Owen wrote:
> Does anyone else think that the idea of an OPAC with holdings
> information driven purely by link resolvers has potential? (I suppose
> more generally - can we build on the idea of link resolvers to form a
> loosely coupled holdings information system?)
>
Yes. And I would add:
Can a link resolver be the link between where a user is (anywhere on the
Net) and the library's holdings? or better, and library holdings (all
libraries, or at least many).
kc
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