Bernard, I wasn't thinking of URIs as being for users, but for programs.
(URLs are also designed for programs, but we've gotten used to them.) So
the question is: what services do we want to provide based on links to
library catalog records? There could be a number of different services
(displays, look-up in a different catalog, find the full text.... ) much
like the OpenURL, and the choice of service could be in the user
interface or elsewhere. So try to imagine that someone has added a link
to a library record in a document on the web, and then try to imagine
all of the options that one might offer from that link.
kc
Bernhard Eversberg wrote:
> 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
>
>
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