I feel like I'm inflicting a cruel and unusual punishment on you by
suggesting this, but much of this information is representable in the MARC
Communities format. The specification is online at
http://www.loc.gov/marc/community/eccihome.html
Simon
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:58 AM, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss_at_gbv.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> For not to reinvent the wheel I am looking for any RDF ontologies that
> describe information about libraries. There are many formats and some
> ontologies (Dublin Core, FRBR, Bibliographic Ontology [Bibo]) for
> bibliographic data but no library-specific ontologies that I know of.
>
> For instance how do you state that something is a library building that
> belongs to a given institution? How do you express opening times in RDF? How
> do you point to the URL of the OPAC? How do you say that a given collection
> is held by one library but owned by another person? I think we could reuse
> some parts of Bibo and from other general Ontologies like vCard, but I bet
> that there are concepts and relationships which only make sense for
> libraries - so they should be defined in RDFS/OWL!
>
> I wonder why the Talis Directory does not include such library-specific
> information http://directory.talis.com/ui/ - they support vCard and their
> Address Schema in RDF [1] but not opening hours, ISIL identifier, library
> type, links to collections, URL of the OPAC and such (at least not in RDF).
>
> By the way it would be a big step forward to have an URI representation of
> the "International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related
> Organizations" (ISIL) to refer to libraries.
>
> Oh, there is not even a defined class to state that something is a libray,
> isn't it? It should be a subclass of foaf:Organization or bibo:Collection,
> depending on what you mean.
>
> Are there any projects to bring information about libraries into the
> Semantic Web?
>
> Jakob
>
> [1] http://www.talis.com/tdn/platform/reference/schemas/address
>
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Received on Thu Dec 03 2009 - 15:23:14 EST