[open-bibliography] OCLC adds Linked Data to WorldCat.org | DDC 23 released as linked data at dewey.info

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Hate to sound like a broken record :D but OAI is a perfectly good protocol
for synchronizing large quantities of discrete metadata like bib records.
It's one way to address the stream-of-constant-updates problem and I'd much
rather have an OAI endpoint than a massive datafile any day. The RDF-ers
amonst you can use OAI-ORE. It's a well understood, easy to implement,
-standard- mechanism for this problem... Yet it seems so unpopular, and I
can't for the life of me figure out why :D


On 25 June 2012 09:23, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:
>
>> That's certainly what the BL did - albeit on a much smaller DB:
>>
>> <http://datahub.io/dataset/bluk-bnb>
>>
>> I also wonder if there is any way to extract a core dataset -- e.g. all
>> books.
>>
>> I think this is a good idea. We shouldn't try to be comprehensive but to
> create something with new value.
>
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