[open-bibliography] FRBR examples

Thu May 27 13:36:58 UTC 2010

See "APIs" link at bottom of page (
http://www.librarything.com/services/ ). We have other data we're
willing to share.

My point isn't particular experiences. LibraryThing's work system
isn't enough like FRBR to draw parallels. My point is to HAVE
experiences. Get people working with it. And if you can't get people
to work with it for free and for fun, it's probably a bad idea
anyway... :)

Tim

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM, William Waites <william.waites at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 10-05-27 14:02, Tim Spalding wrote:
>> LibraryThing introduced a FRBR-like model more than three years ago,
>> and the community has spent the last three years working together
>> through all the edge cases and difficult problems, establishing
>> precedents and secondary rules. We've changed the model and the
>>
>
> Hi Tim, it would be great to learn from your experiences and even better
> to be
> able to share data back-and-forth. Is there a way I can get machine readable
> data about a particular work?
>
> A first attempt with:
>
>    curl -H "Accept: application/rdf+xml"
> http://www.librarything.com/work/8151107
>
> unfortunately fails.
>
> Cheers,
> -w
>
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