On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:30, Richard Wallis <richard.wallis_at_talis.com> wrote:
> In his earlier attempt to bring this thread back on track Jim said
> "Implementing linked data, although it would be great, is years and years
> away from any kind of practical implementation".
"Linked data" is itself not an implementation, but as it is something
your current systems must implement I think Jim's pretty spot on to
current library infra-structure supporting it. Of *course* Talis is
doing things right, but we're not all on that platform yet ... :)
> Although you can not say
> that Linked Data is here yet, I think he is being a little pessimistic.
Realistic, I suspect. How hard is it really to dump anything you've
got in MARC on a webserver somewhere? We all agree this is *not* hard.
What's hard is daring to do it. It's not a technical issue, it's a
social issue.
> From a blog post on this
> [http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2009/10/will-linked-data-mean-an-early-end-for-marc-rda.php],
> postulating on the possible demise of Marc and/or RDA because of the rise of
> Linked Data, I thought the following would be worth repeating on list:
>
> No doubt the NGC4LIB conversation on this topic will continue. Regardless of
> how it progresses, there is a current need and desire for bibliographic data
> in the linked data web. The people behind that desire, and the innovation to
> satisfy it, may well have come up with a satisfactory solution, for them,
> whilst we are still talking.
Librarians do *not* wish for library meta data to be reused, and
certainly not without their hopeful control or at least a smidgen of
guidance. It's not in their nature to let anybody just fiddle with
meta data willy-nilly. It grains against their nature. And *that* is
the problem you've got to solve. The technical side is a corker.
Alex
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