Wow, that's huge, thanks for letting us know. Very very welcome.
Somewhat surprised LC was willing to go along with that, when they
haven't been willing to expose their portion of the NAF on their own.
But this is a very good project. If you have any interest in writing
about it for the Code4Lib Journal, we'd welcome an article. Otherwise
you should at least blog about it.
Jonathan
Hickey,Thom wrote:
> It's probably worth pointing out that much of the information in the
> LC/NACO names file will be available (real soon now) in the Virtual
> International Authority File (viaf.org). In particular there will be
> stable URI's for personas extracted from several national authority
> files (currently BnF, DNB, Sweden, and LC). We are planning on an RDF
> view of the merged data.
>
> --Th
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Riley, Jenn
> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:50 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] opac live search
>
> The folks at LC working on this know that names are desirable (I
> understand I'm not the only one who has explicitly and directly asked
> for them). Now whether that turns into an actual service or not... I'm
> choosing to be optimistic!
>
> Jenn
>
> ========================
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> Metadata Librarian
> Digital Library Program
> Indiana University - Bloomington
> Wells Library W501
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>
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>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
>> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind
>> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:44 AM
>> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] opac live search
>>
>> I would be surprised, and overjoyed, if it included the NAF
>> too. That would be great, but I'm not expecting it, because
>> LC still counts on bringing in revenue by selling that information.
>>
>> Which is a shame. There is SO much that could be done with
>> open access linked data access to structured NAF/IAF
>> information. It is so appropriate for this data.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> Karen Coyle wrote:
>>
>>> Weinheimer Jim wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> This is a great development. Maybe several years too late,
>>>>
>> but I think it may still become a basic focal point for the
>> Semantic Web. Do you know if it will include the name
>> headings as well?
>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That's how I interpret it, but in fact we don't know anything until
>>> they do it, and the LCSH part was supposed to be done by now (after
>>> all, the code already existed since it was done for lcsh.info).
>>>
>>> kc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Karen Coyle wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> LC says that the LCSH will be back soon (....) at
>>>>> http://id.loc.gov, and they'll add the other authorities and
>>>>> various vocabularies (I'm assuming that means various lists from
>>>>> the MARC record.) Check out the site, they spell it all
>>>>>
>> out there.
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> kc
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> -----------------------------------
>>>>> Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net
>>>>> http://www.kcoyle.net
>>>>> ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet
>>>>> fx.: 510-848-3913
>>>>> mo.: 510-435-8234
>>>>> ------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
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