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

Sun May 23 18:54:49 UTC 2010

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:

> 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.
>

I am not sure that this will fly, honestly, and I would be hard pressed to
think that the world will respect IFLA's desire here, esp. since
vocab.org/frbr/core predates it by about five years.

Also, this: http://metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/show/id/1565.html makes
me think that it's perfectly valid to use <uri> <rdf:type>
<frbr:Manifestation> .  After all, if the only data you have is
manifestation level, it's not possible to (or necessary) to define the work
or expression.  That's the benefit of the open world model, somebody else
can fill in those parts you don't currently know.

-Ross.

>
> 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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