[open-bibliography] OKFN blog: Bibliographica, an Introduction

[Karen Coyle]

William, et al -

I took a quick look at some of the data, and there are what I would  
consider some errors that should be corrected. As an example, FRBR  
"manifestation" is not a resource type -- but text is. (Any  
manifestation has inherent in it the two FRBR levels Work and  
Expression, so there really isn't any such thing as a Manifestation on  
its own.) Also note that IFLA has registered FRBR provisionally at  
http://metadataregistry.org/schema/show/id/5.html. What it lacks at  
the moment is an official URI (they are quibbling about the domain  
name), but I can let you know when that happens. The IFLA version of  
FRBR in RDF should be considered the authoritative one.

Also, the Metadata Registry has RDF properties for hundreds of  
bibliographic fields. I could help identify the ones needed for  
Bibliographica if you'd like.

kc

Quoting William Waites <william.waites at okfn.org>:

> Blog post introducing Bibliographica and giving some background
> information. Extract below, complete text at
> http://blog.okfn.org/2010/05/20/bibliographica-an-introduction/
>
> Bibliographica, an Introduction
> <http://blog.okfn.org/2010/05/20/bibliographica-an-introduction/>
> May 20th, 2010
>
> It's time to talk a bit about Bibliographica
> <http://bibliographica.org/>, a new project of the Open Knowledge
> Foundation.
> Bibliographica is designed to make it easier for scholars and
> researchers to share and collect information about work in their field.
> It provides an open source software platform to create and share
> semantically rich information about publications, authors and their works.
>
> As readers of the Open Knowledge Foundation blog will know we have a
> long-standing interest in open bibliographic data - from our efforts
> starting in 2005 to build a database of public domain works
> <http://www.publicdomainworks.net/>, our coordination of the response to
> the Library of Congress' Future of Bibliographic Control (2007)
> <http://blog.okfn.org/2007/12/19/response-to-the-future-of-bibliographic-control-draft-from-the-library-of-congress/>   
> and
> the recent creation of a new working group
> <http://blog.okfn.org/2010/03/03/new-working-group-on-open-bibliographic-data/>   
> onopen
> bibliographic data <http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/bibliography> in March this
> year.
>
> --
> William Waites           <william.waites at okfn.org>
> Mob: +44 789 798 9965    Open Knowledge Foundation
> Fax: +44 131 464 4948                Edinburgh, UK
>
>



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