On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 14:22, Diane I. Hillmann <dih1_at_cornell.edu> wrote:
> This statement ignores the developing RDA element set which is poised to
> provide a FRBR-aware, Semantic Web-ready replacement for MARC within the
> next year.
Umm, no one loves to see SemWeb / semantic data modeling ideas put
forward in the library world more than me. But, a replacement for MARC
within a year? I can understand that from a Utopian idealistic point
of view, for sure, but the reality is that it requires more than an
alternative for it to be a *real* path forward. Vendors must change,
ILSes must change, our thinking must change, everything must change.
And it won't happen within a year. Or decade.
> See: http://metadataregistry.org/schema/show/id/1.html for the
> element set and http://metadataregistry.org/schema/show/id/4.html for RDA
> roles. (Click on "Properties" to see the list of elements and sub-elements
> for each--details on each property and RDF versions are also available by
> following links on the page, XML will be available soon).
All of this stuff is just the MARC model broken out of the MARC
format. You still have got nothing in terms of identity control,
ontology extensibility, semantic brokering, typed content models, data
validation and so on. You need to get the library world on board to
the idea that even identity control is needed and that you must
provide infrastructure to make it happen. These are huge problems
because the default librarian have no clue about dynamic data models
(heck, nor does the default IT guy either) and hence wouldn't
understand your talking about inferencing, ontology, triple-stores (or
whatever you prefer), repository cross-pollination, and so on. There's
more to SemWeb tech than just being able to pull off that prototype.
But of course, I think you know this.
Anyway, I love the initiative. I wish there was an easy way to make
librarians get it, though.
Regards,
Alex
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