[open-bibliography] Wtrlt: [NGC4LIB] Linked Open Data prototype at the German National Library

[Rufus Pollock]

On 19 April 2010 08:42, Adrian Pohl <pohl at hbz-nrw.de> wrote:
> FYI.

Great news.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Adrian Pohl <pohl at HBZ-NRW.DE>
> To: NGC4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:14:33 +0200
> Subject: [NGC4LIB] Linked Open Data prototype at the German National Library
> Hallo,
>
> 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
>
> Here is the RDF/XML-representation of the authority data about Johann
> Wolfgang von Goethe: http://devel.d-nb.de/linked/gnd/118540238/about
> And the corresponding HTML-representation:
> http://devel.d-nb.de/linked/gnd/118540238/
>
> The data is also available as Open Data (actually I can't find a
> licence) in N-Triple format:
> http://datendienst.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/mabit.pl?cmd=fetch&userID=testdat&pass=testdat&mabheft=tdbdump_gnd.zip
> (320 MB)

Would it be worth enquiring about the explicit license -- and perhaps
suggesting a specific license such as one from
http://www.opendatacommons.org/?

> Because it's just a prototype and the underlying data is still subject
> to changes you shouldn't link to it yet. The DNB wishes that the data
> shouldn't be used in live systems.

Understood.

> Some problems need to be resolved before leaving the prototype status,
> for example: Until now the identifier for a person also is the
> identifier for a HTML representation of the corresponding authority data
> which conflicts Linked Data conventions. (See the URI of Johann Wolfgang
> von Goethe for instance: http://d-nb.info/gnd/118540238)
>
> It's great that the German National Library is taking action in the
> Linked Data field and has realized - in contrast to other library
> organizations - that it needs to change its business model away from
> taking money for data!

Indeed!

Rufus

>>>> "Binz, Vera" <V.Binz at d-nb.de> 16.04.2010 14:01 >>>
> *** Mehrfachempfang bitten wir zu entschuldigen ***
>
> Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen,
>
> seit kurzem steht der Linked Data Service der Deutschen
> Nationalbibliothek als Prototyp online zur Verfügung. Aktuell werden
> etwa 1,8 Mio. Personen (aus der PND) und ca. 164.000 Sachschlagworte
> (aus der SWD) dargestellt.
>
> Wir möchten Sie einladen, den Service zu testen. Die Dokumentation, die
> auch unsere Überlegungen bzgl. technischer Umsetzung und Modellierung
> der Daten enthält, finden Sie unter:
>
>    https://wiki.d-nb.de/display/LDS
>
> Ansprechpartner: Dr. Jan Hannemann, j.hannemann at d-nb.de, Tel.
> 069-1525-1769
>
> Wir freuen uns über Feedback, um dies bei der weiteren Umsetzung des
> Linked Data Service berücksichtigen zu können.
>
> Viele Grüße
> Vera Binz
>
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