[open-bibliography] British Library data announcement

Thu Nov 18 15:24:24 UTC 2010

Ben, 

Your blog entry makes interesting reading. 

With reference to the occurrences of rdf:description instead of
rdf:Description, these have now been corrected and an updated version
(0.3.1) of the data is now available directly from the British Library.

Your post mentions RDF errors. Beyond the one noted above, is there
anything else? Obviously, we rely on user feedback to improve our
output; so, if there is anything else, please let us know.

Regards

Corine

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Corine Deliot
Metadata Standards Analyst
The British Library
Boston Spa, Wetherby
West Yorkshire LS23 7BQ
e-mail: corine.deliot at bl.uk
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-----Original Message-----
From: open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org
[mailto:open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Ben
O'Steen
Sent: 2010-11-18 09:25
To: List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
Subject: Re: [open-bibliography] British Library data announcement

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 09:12 +0000, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/.html#Death (although has a level of 
> indirection you may find annoying. You can't just say X died Y, you
have 
> to say X Death D
> D date Y

Yep - I've even drawn some pics about that :)

http://openbiblio.net/2010/11/17/augmenting-the-british-librarys-rdf-dat
a-to-allow-for-disambiguation/

Ben

> 
> Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
> > Thanks Will,
> >
> > One great idea for a use-case has surfaced today (anonymous, but
I'll 
> > give credit if I get permission) - to add the author's death-date to

> > bibliography. This has immediate and widespread practicality in the 
> > OKF with the release of the copyright calculator. It should be 
> > possible to mashup chunks of the bibliography with DBPedia and I
would 
> > expect this could resolve many authors (with, of course the problem
of 
> > disambiguation). However known lists of authors with death dates
might 
> > also help with the disambiguation.
> >
> > But maybe you have all thought of this already.
> >
> > -- 
> > Peter Murray-Rust
> > Reader in Molecular Informatics
> > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> > University of Cambridge
> > CB2 1EW, UK
> > +44-1223-763069
> >
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