Karen Coyle wrote:
> I'm going to 'fourth' Owen's suggestion, or maybe second-and-a-half it,
> by saying that the bibliographic data must be addressable, and the
> address must return at least one actionable service, such as a copy of
> the record in a standard format or a description of available
> services/formats. ...
Right. The OAI protocol has the verb "GetRecord" to assist downloading
of one record addressed by its IdNumber. Every OAI data provider has
to implement at least the oai_dc format for that purpose, some of
them also offer oai_marc. A Link to a record might then look like this:
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/katalog/oai.php?verb=GetRecord&identifier=573318972
and the result ist coded in XML.
Might this be the "standard format" catalog users would feel
most comfortable with? Or something even simpler? But what?
Reference Manager (RIS)? Wrapped in what way, which encoding?
It can all be done with not much effort, tweaking the OAI scripts,
but I'm afraid there isn't the one or two formats and wrappings that
would make a large majority happy and able to use it.
And of course, the internal id number is not what the end-user will
have available to ask for a record. What else? ISBN doesn't cover
everything and isn't reliable enough.
What, in other words, would be the basic specs and requirements for this
very first step into the linked data scenario?
B.Eversberg
Received on Wed Mar 18 2009 - 05:43:10 EDT