[okfn-be] OCLC releases FAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) as Linked Data

Fri Dec 16 07:30:40 UTC 2011

Hi all,

for those who want a hands-on tutorial for enriching your data, you 
might be interested in freeyourmetadata.org [1]. At [2], the LCSH is 
used as example thesaurus to perform enrichment operations.

Best regards,

Davy

[1] http://freeyourmetadata.org
[2] http://freeyourmetadata.org/reconciliation/

On 16/12/2011 8:06, Patrick Hochstenbach wrote:
> Hi all
>
> The email below is of interest for folks here who want to enrich their
> linked data with Library of Congress subject headings [LCSH]. LCSH
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Subject_Headings)
> is a gigantic thesaurus that could be of help to group and organize
> documents by subject.
>
> Patrick
>
> [open-bibliography] OCLC Fast available under ODC-by
> open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> [open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org] on behalf of Edmund
> Chamberlain [emc59 at cam.ac.uk]
>
>   Sent: 	 Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:45 PM
>   To: 	open-bibliography at lists.okfn.org
>
> May be of interest to folks here, press release here:
>
> http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2011/201171.htm
>
>   Great looking subject heading dataset. Sadly no bulk download or
>   queryable endpoint available (yet).
>
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>   Edmund Chamberlain
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Davy Van Deursen

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