[open-bibliography] New BNB sample data available

[Owen Stephens]

Thanks

I guess that ideally I'd see the more specific place of publication
identified by a geonames http uri, then the rest of the hierarchy of
geography can be dealt with by the more specialised resources available.

What I don't like about the approach you describe is it establishes a
convention outside the formal definitions in isbd and rda (as far as I can
see?) - if both the 'country level' and more specific (where available) are
to be represented within the BL data, then I think properties that match
these definitions would be needed for it to be useful - otherwise you may as
well use the same property for both.

That said, I'd go back to my original preference  - I'm not sure the benefit
you get from expressing 'London' and 'England' separately when you could
just use http://sws.geonames.org/2643743/about.rdf

Owen

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Deliot, Corine <Corine.Deliot at bl.uk> wrote:

>  Yes, it is to reflect the different granularity. The data in the 260$a is
> at the city, town level whereas the data recorded in the 008/15-17 in the
> MARC record is at the country level. We thought it may be helpful to keep
> that distinction but if the consensus is that it is not, then we can use the
> same element.
>
>
>
> Corine
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> *From:* open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
> open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On Behalf Of *Owen Stephens
> *Sent:* 03 February 2011 13:08
>
> *To:* List for Working Group on Open Bibliographic Data
> *Subject:* Re: [open-bibliography] New BNB sample data available
>
>
>
> Corine - is there any reason why the place of publication from 260 is done
> as isbd:P1016 while the new country code is put into rda:placeOfProduction
> ?
>
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>  On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Deliot, Corine <Corine.Deliot at bl.uk>
> wrote:
>
> This is to let you know that there are two new sample data files available
> from our website
>
> http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datasamples.html
>
>
>
> The first file is an updated version of the BNB in RDF/XML. The substantive
> change is that the conversion now carries over the MARC country code for the
> place of publication.
>
>
>
> The second file is based on the same conversion but includes links to
> linked data sources: LCSH in SKOS, MARC country and language codes, Dewey
> info, Lexvo, GeoNames and the RDF Book Mashup.
>
>
>
> Feedback welcome.
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>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Corine
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> Corine Deliot
>
> Metadata Standards Analyst
>
> British Library
>
> Boston Spa, Wetherby
>
> West Yorkshire LS 23 7BQ
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