[open-bibliography] Fwd: [LODLAM] Get Yourself a Linked Data Piece of WorldCat to Play With

Fri Aug 17 23:30:33 UTC 2012

On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net> wrote:

> Peter, it is a small number, but the fact that it is the top 1.2 million
> in terms of library holdings is significant. Think of this as the set of
> the most popular items from WorldCat -- so as a set for experimentation,
> most libraries will find something in their collection that can link to
> this dataset. (It consists of all items held by >=250 libraries).
>
> I suspect it is considerably smaller than the previous releases by the
European national libraries. If there is a real intention to release the
185-million others and a timescale then it's valuable. If it's a small part
- even though it's the most popular - then the primary use is simply
exploring OCLC's RDF technology - and like all RDFs it's probably pretty
idiosyncratic. My rough guess on the 1% + power law would be that someone
searching for a book would still fail 90+% of the time.

-- 
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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