> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of James Weinheimer
> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 08:58 AM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web
>
> I confess that RDA may be exactly what people want, but that remains to
> be demonstrated, especially in the face of all of these studies of how
> people use the web. The fact that it is based on FRBR only makes me
> more suspicious, not less.
Personally, I believe that FRBR and RDA will be more useful to the
Semantic Web since they are both based on a domain model which can
be expressed as an RDFS/OWL ontology. People can argue whether the
domain model is correct, but having a domain model is important to
understanding the data and its relationships within the domain model
and outside the domain model, e.g., linked data.
Andy.
Received on Tue Oct 20 2009 - 09:31:19 EDT