Bernhard Eversberg schrieb:
> Karen Coyle wrote:
>>>
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>> And this is why I think librarians get so defensive about their tools
>> and their concept of authority. I think there's value to the kind of
>> authority they try to provide (especially name authority), but what is
>> weird is that they won't let the actual scholars play a direct role.
>> ... And getting at these relationships is why it would be interesting
>> to put our data out on the Web for linking and data mining.
> There have been some, even large scale, attempts at doing that: exposing
> bib records in millions of HTML files to the search engines.
Linked data ist not about exposing library catalogues to google on some
stupid way. Its about making this data "identifiable" (and
"addressable") for any kind of use (typically OPACs totally fail on
that, there is no simple way to address a record e.g. in Pica OPACs by a
persistend URL, not to talk about real URIs, other systems are even worse).
One important use of linkable library data would be to put it in (so
called semantic) relations (links) to other data. If you have those
relations (which may be even simple hyper links without any "semantic"
assigned to them), as a nice sidestep even the evil empire aka Google
might notice them and will luckily use that data.
If library data has any value (as assumed by librarians, and I don't
challenge that) that would be one way to show it. And to justify the
incredible work that goes into cataloguing.
> Results,
> AFAIK, have not been encouraging - the files have no links or stuff for
> Google to chew on - are too poor of content.
As you say, it's not (only) the content that is important, the relations
are important, welcome to hypertext.
But you don't want to say, library data has only poor content?
Librarians keep telling me how valuable the content of that data is...
> Firstly, isn't it about time for some larger scale evaluation of the
> usefulness of devices available for searching?
It is, definitely.
Regards,
Till
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Received on Wed Mar 04 2009 - 03:33:06 EST