On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Karen Coyle <lists_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> Is this the kind of thing you mean?
>
> VIAFbot and the Integration of Library Data on Wikipedia
If VIAF happened 15 - 20 years ago, then probably. Now they're a nice
to have feature that I suspect few will use (no, no, I saw the stats
in the article, just not sure what that traffic *is*), but that's just
speculation, and I'm happy if I was wrong on that.
Also, the point was the use of - in this case - http://viaf.org/viaf
in ontologies and associated technologies, where instead of using
http://viaf.org/viaf/44485902/viaf.xml people will rather use
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Monteverdi, not because either
does the job of identifying Monteverdi (the composer), but because if
you have one namespace that contains most of the things you're talking
about, you don't add another one just to deal with yet another subset
(take the historic context of Monteverdi, and count the number of
namespaces you need if Wikipedia *didn't* have most of it; the list is
quite long). Most people, I think, would agree that it's mixed content
which is the exciting bit, however people are people and are not going
to pollute their namespaces to get library creds. Even though I wish
they would.
So I'm not being negative on what efforts and tools are being done
now, apart from saying it's too late to have an impact where it
matters (apart from for librarians).
Regards,
Alex
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