Karen Coyle wrote:
> For certain purposes, yes, you organize data in records. But your
> records must be designed such that the data can be used in other
> contexts. Our records don't allow us to do this now. If we wish to do
> linking and to take advantage of data on the Web that could be related
> to our bibliographic data, then we must change how our data is stored.
> Names could be freely floating, if properly identified with URIs. They
> could float in our systems and they could float in a document on the Web.
This was just beginning to happen in one of the most interesting library projects I have seen: lcsh.info, but it was unfortunately shut down for some reason.So long as the URIs exist (and I don't know why the library world is taking its time on this) linking with the URIs can be done in all kinds of interesting ways; from all kinds of metadata records, or from the item itself. (I take it this is what you mean by freely-floating)
If the library world isn't doing it, maybe Wikipedia should create URIs for the concepts that they have, so that people can link to and use. It might be an interesting project.
Jim Weinheimer
Received on Wed Mar 04 2009 - 12:16:39 EST