[open-bibliography] German National Bibliography as LOD under CC0

Fri Feb 3 11:59:18 UTC 2012

On 2 February 2012 18:11, Adrian Pohl <adrian.pohl at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hello Tom,
>
> On 2 February 2012 16:48, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's awesome, Adrian.  I don't suppose that there's any English
>> language documentation on the DNB data model?
>
>>There is, see <http://files.d-nb.de/pdf/linked_data_e.pdf>. The wiki page on the LOD service says that it will be updated soon to cover the bibliographic records as well. For now the English verison only covers authority files.
>
>> For example, the "related persons" to Bertolt Brecht
>> http://d-nb.info/gnd/118514768/about/html appear to be encoded with a
>> rich set of relationships (gnd:functionOfThePerson) including not only
>> 1st wife, 2nd wife, son, etc, but also long-term mistress, lover, etc.
>>  Is there a standard list somewhere that this set of relationship
>> roles is drawn from is it just free form text entered by the
>> cataloger?
>
> Regarding person relationships see page 19 of the documentation. The
> RDF data certainly is less specific than the the underlying data.
> Family relationships seem to be explicitely encoded but for other
> kinds of relationships only the general rdaRelGr2:relatedPersonPerson
> is used.
>
> To get a feeling for the underlying data take a look at
> <http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/PPNSET?PPN=133840107/SET=6/TTL=1/PRS=PP/NXT>
> (That's the corresponding authority record in the GBV union catalog in
> Pica+ format.)
>
> I don't know whether there is a controlled vocabulary behind this
> practice of typing a relationship but I guess there isn't. (Any people
> familiar with German cataloging on this list?) But there will at least
> be a common practice for this.

This is really useful info Adrian. Please do add it to the DataHub entry:

<http://thedatahub.org/dataset/deutsche-nationalbibliografie-dnb>

(And ditto for anyone else with useful links or info -- all you need
to do is registerd and then go edit that dataset's notes).

Rufus