[openbiblio-dev] Data at bibliographica--two small issues

Thu Nov 25 13:37:49 UTC 2010

And (more generally) *thank you* for your feedback Antoine! ;-)

Great that you are on this list, and would be good to keep talking
about Bibliographica with you and any of your colleagues who are
interested in this area. If you come across anyone who might be
interested, please feel free to cc an introduction!

All the best,

Jonathan

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:34 PM, William Waites <ww at eris.okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Antoine,
>
> * [2010-11-25 13:54:52 +0100] Antoine Isaac <aisaac at few.vu.nl> écrit:
> ]
> ] - a foaf:isPrimaryTopicCo property is being used. I guess it should be
> ] foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf.
>
> Yes, this is a known issue mentioned in the errata [0] and will be
> fixed soon. Hopefully anything using these statements will infer the
> proper one from the foaf:primaryTopic inverse which is also there.
>
> ] - I find the use of skos:notation a bit weird in triples like
> ] _:b1982145 <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#notation> "Lindsay, Jack,
> ] 1900-1990." .
> ] This looks like a real name (and has been appropriately represented as
> ] foaf:name). If you want to use SKOS (which is always a good idea :-) )
> ] skos:prefLabel would probably be better.
>
> My reasoning for this was that these strings are in some way the
> canonical ones that appear in the authority database of the BL so are
> more key-like than labels. Does this make sense?
>
> It wouldn't be impossible to also have these as skos:prefLabel but I
> guess we should pay some attention to the number of triples as the
> dataset is already very big...
>
> Cheers,
> -w
>
> [0] http://eris.okfn.org/ww/2010/11/bl (bottom section)
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