On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Corey Harper <corey.harper_at_nyu.edu> wrote:
> This is *great*, Ross.
>
It's a *start*.
> Ross - in the spirit of "Any and all recommendations welcome", how hard do
> you think it would be to hook these URIs into your quick proof of concept?
Well, actually, if the viaf server wasn't down, that's what you'd be
seeing for dcterms:creator -- it does a SRU search against viaf and
adds the URI and the foaf resource. It then takes all of the name
variants and does a SRU search against the LC catalog and makes
foaf:made assertions back at all the LCCN uris from the results set.
But, this is the peril of not having a persistence layer. By doing it
all dynamically, it's subject to the whims of the data providers, so
when viaf.org is down, this doesn't work, or dbpedia's SPARQL endpoint
times out, etc.
-Ross.
Received on Wed Nov 04 2009 - 21:34:31 EST