[open-bibliography] Identifiers in the BNB

Fri Feb 11 13:23:27 UTC 2011

The major problem with the BL dataset, quite apart 
from how things like controlled vocabularies for subjects
are handled, is the absence of identifiers (URIs ideally)
for the records and for agents (authors, editors,
publishers).

The most valuable thing the BL could do to improve
this dataset is to mint those identifiers.

There are identifiers that have been generated by the
bibliographica project but particularly for the 
agents it is a potentially error-prone process and
it would be much better if we could have them from
the horse's mouth so to speak.

Corinne, is there any chance this could happen in the
near future?

Thanks,
-w
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