Karen Coyle wrote:
>
> A key aspect of linked data is that it is about DATA not RECORDS.
Data as we have them is always organized in records, what else?
Names are in authority *records*, not freely floating somewhere in
whatever manner, but we need to keep the various forms together or
we will never be able to relate one to the other.
> For
> example, linking will take place between names appearing in different
> contexts on the Web, like a name in a library catalog and the same name
> appearing in Wikipedia. So not only do we have to get our data out of
> catalog databases, but we have to make the data usable outside of the
> particular bibliographic record. That's what linked data can help us do.
>
Certainly, but interoperability between catalog *records* of different
catalogs and databases is of prime importance, and the finding of
documents in whatever systems always uses some form of *records* as
surrogates and these form result sets.
We can and we do link from our catalogs to Wikipedia and the German
Wikipedia links into the German National Bibliography for names
of persons. That, in fact, was a special project of theirs. Wikipedia
uses the authority *record* ids to do that, not the names.
For example: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt_Brecht
contains this link: http://d-nb.info/gnd/118514768
(Momentarily, these links are not working...)
B.Eversberg
Received on Wed Mar 04 2009 - 10:01:44 EST