> another step in linking library records would be to supply a mapping
> between individual records and the corresponding subject or
> classification scheme, e.g. with ISBN or something like Bibkey
> (http://www.gbv.de/wikis/cls/Bibliographic_Hash_Key). There are quite
> a lot of schemes out there and not every scheme is used in a
> particular library catalogue, e.g. we don't use LCSH. On the other
> hand offering a user to browse local records with one or more
> (external) schemes like LCSH would be desirable.
This is actually how it is done in LIBRIS. If you crawl the Swedish
subject heading for "Mothers" you get both the link to http://
lcsh.info/... and links to bibliographic records using this subject
heading. Same thing with authors, crawl August Strindberg (http://libris.kb.se/resource/bib/94541
) and you will learn that he is the (dc:)subject of 1147 bibliographic
resources, and (dc:)creator of 3025. ISBN:s are exposed as URIs like
this one URN:ISBN:0575047623.
> One possible solution would be to implement corresponding WebServices
> that get a ISBN or Bibkey and then deliver the appropriate LCSH or any
> other kind of related meta data. In my opinion a much better solution
> would be to offer the mapping data as a feed of flat files like
> LibraryThing (http://www.librarything.com/feeds/), e.g.
Well, yes. But everything is already there in Linked Data.
In my opinion VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) should ju be
one big downloadable(!) file describing relation between authority
resources.
/martin
Received on Tue Aug 26 2008 - 07:26:04 EDT