Adrian Pohl wrote:
>
> the German National Library (DNB) has made public its Linked Data
> prototype for authority data. It uses RDA, FOAF, the relationship
> vocabulary and some DNB-made properties (GND-vocabulary) for person
> authority data. For subject headings it uses SKOS, Dublin Core as well
> as some newly minted GND-properties. It already contains links to
> Wikipedia, DBpedia and viaf.org.
>
> A documentation is available (only in German) here:
> https://wiki.d-nb.de/display/LDS
Just to show that something can be done with it, and what the content
really looks like, I have set up a database for browsing and searching:
http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/a30/gnd.htm
This is an experiment. 1.9 million name and subject authority records of
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt have been indexed. Most of the
records are for personal names, only 163.800 are subject headings.
There are links to the DNB catalog and, in the case of personal names,
to VIAF.
The database does not reflect the complete and unabridged content of the
production version at DNB and is to be considered a prototype, not to
be used in production environments. Several data fields are not
included. Not all special characters are correctly encoded.
Whereas name authorities are more or less relatable to the names used
in other languages (that's what VIAF does), the German subject headings
are a different story altogether. One cannot find one LCSH term for each
German subject heading or vice versa. The entire approach is very
different.
Not all of the user interface is English (experiment, not production
version!), but enough to make it usable.
B.Eversberg
Received on Fri Apr 23 2010 - 04:20:09 EDT