Hi all,
I would like to announce that LIBRIS[1], the Swedish Union Catalogue,
is available as Linked Data[2].
Some examples, of which some may hurt your eye if looked at in a HTML-
browser; never fear, in time they will become beautiful, and might
even include a squiggly animation:
The Difference Engine
http://libris.kb.se/resource/bib/5060570
The Swedish Subject Heading for "Mödrar" (Mothers)
http://libris.kb.se/resource/auth/154863
August Strindberg
http://libris.kb.se/resource/auth/94541
The Royal Library:
http://libris.kb.se/resource/library/S
In a terminal window you can use "curl" to see the content
negotioation in action:
curl --include --location --header accept:text/rdf+n3 "http://libris.kb.se/resource/bib/5060570
"
We have used a mix of ontologies (FOAF, SKOS, Bibliontology), focusing
on availability first rather than perfect representation of the
underlying MARC-record. That comes later. The RDF also exposes some
partd of our FRBR-algorithm, showing links between records believed to
belong to the same work.
What we are working on right now is creating links to external
datasets such as DBPedia/Wikipedia and between our own subject
headings and to LCSH. This is pretty easily done once you have the
data in RDF by the way.
As this is a work in (hopefully constant) progress, any input is
appreciated. And a discussion about Linked Data for libraries would be
welcome.
Best regards,
Martin Malmsten
1. LIBRIS - http://libris.kb.se/
2. Linked Data - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data
Received on Thu Aug 21 2008 - 02:09:03 EDT