09.10.2013 23:32, James Weinheimer:
>
> ... For instance, I am still waiting for
> somebody to demonstrate how the changes with RDA or FRBR or going
> into linked data is going to make a difference that is both
> practical--in the sense of how much work and expense will it be--and
> will also be meaningful and useful to the public.
But there have been examples of libraries putting their stuff up as
downloadable files of RDF triples. The "Linked data cloud" and
the "data hub" are not exactly recent:
http://linkeddata.org/
and there's even LCSH included. Last updated Oct. 2012.
And there's LIBRIS, the Swedish network' data with a SPARQL endpoint,
as of Nov. 2011, and there's British Library's BNB bulk downloads,
updated Sept. 2013, among others.
Now what's being done with all of this, and where are the meaningful
and useful examples that would encourage us, especially, to continue
with FRBR and RDA?
> It's important to ask: Why will it change? How will it change?
That would indeed be questions to be addressed before mentionable
sums are expended and effort dedicated to the implementation of
new and very different systems. Once they become available...
To make some of those things more conventionally visible, I've done a
setup for LCSH:
http://www.allegro-c.de/db/a30/lcsh.htm
and here's BL's data:
http://www.allegro-c.de/db/a30/bl.htm
B.Eversberg
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