[open-bibliography] More open bib data from Southampton

Mon Jan 10 13:51:21 UTC 2011

Hello Christopher,

I just had a quick look at your example[1]. Here my thoughts on this:

The object URI in the isPartOf-statement in line 56:
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/repository doesn't seem to dereference.
As far as I know collection level description isn't done very often
with repositories as is the case with other collections. I'd find it
useful if EPrints supported collection descriptions of repositories
and collections within them. One might use the Dublin Core Collections
Application Profile[2] to do this (though - I have to say - I am not
fully satisfied with this solution).

There are some ontologies declared at the top of the document which
aren't used (in this description): event, void, eprel, cc, owl, geo.
It perhaps would be nicer only to declare the ontologies actually used
in the description at hand.

The rest seems to look quite well as far as I can tell.

> Also, in principle I'd like to look at exposing the library database as open
> data, including number of copies available currently for loan. Any ideas?

Do you know the Document Availability Information data model (DAIA)?
See [3].

Adrian

[1] http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/12321/RDFXML/eps-eprint-12321.rdf

[2] http://dublincore.org/groups/collections/collection-application-profile/

[3] http://daia.sourceforge.net/

2011/1/6 Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>:
> EPrints.soton, our main EPrints server, now provides RDF and sensible URIs.
> http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/export/eprint/12321/RDFXML/eps-eprint-12321.rdf
>
> EPrints.ecs.soton.ac.uk has provided this for some time (one day these two
> repositories should be merged, but it's a scary job)
>
> We also provide similar data from our 'edshare' teaching materials
> repository:
> http://www.edshare.soton.ac.uk/
>
> What these don't yet do is join the data up in any sane way, they each use
> different URIs for authors (person identity is a bit of a rabbit hold in
> such a large organistation with many co-evolved systems!)
>
> Suggestions on how to make this more useful will go a long way as I can
> alter the next release of the software, rather than just our local copies!
>
> Also, in principle I'd like to look at exposing the library database as open
> data, including number of copies available currently for loan. Any ideas?
>
> --
> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248
>
> You should read the ECS Web Team blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>
>
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