On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Karen Coyle <lists_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> Because in most catalogs the name heading is a bibliographic field, not a
> link to the authority record. And in many catalogs, there is no direct link
> between them. You could get the user to the authority record eventually, but
> it would take a couple of clicks -- a couple of clicks that users probably
> wouldn't have the patience for.
Well, some ILSes use authorities if they're there.
I guess my point was more that I'd rather see more and more of this
abstracted away from our legacy ILSes and OPACs and think about this
sort of functionality as part of the design of the discovery
interface.
That is, how stuff is stored in the ILS doesn't have to reflect how
it's stored and used in the public interface.
>
> BTW, the VuFind example is quite nice. For all that some folks consider
> wikipedia to be complete anarchy, their opening descriptive paragraphs seem
> to work well in a lot of different contexts.
>
Indeed! I wish they'd take this further (VuFind doesn't do much to
break out of a MARC mindset, really) and actually model some of this,
but it's definitely a start.
For my Code4lib presentation in February, I modified a "stock" VuFind
instance slightly, adding a bit of RDFa to the views, to show how it's
relatively simple to contribute to the linked library data cloud just
by using the stuff we already know:
So take:
http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/vufind/Author/Home?author=Serra%2C%20Richard%2C%201939-
which translates into:
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/extract?uri=http%3A//dilettantes.code4lib.org/vufind/Author/Home%3Fauthor%3DSerra%252C%2520Richard%252C%25201939-
or
http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/vufind/Record/5316261
which translates to:
http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/extract?uri=http%3A//dilettantes.code4lib.org/vufind/Record/5316261
It's crude, but a start.
-Ross.
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