[TopicMapsInLIS] [ol-discuss] Interface for merging authors

[Liliana Melgar E.]

Thank you Kevin,

I would really appreciate if you or someone else can find something on it.

However, my message before was addressed mainly to the mailing list of the
Open Library (http://openlibrary.org/) where someone asked a question on
merging authors, and the answers explained some projects I was not aware of,
like LOD (Linked Open Data http://linkeddata.org/). I sent it also here
because I found interesting to see how TM simply don't appear in the
discussions...

Thank you.

Liliana

2009/2/5 Kevin Trainor <ktrainor at ligent.net>

>  Hi Liliana,
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> I do not know the answer to your question.  But, I will keep my eye out for
> OCLC projects using Topic Maps.
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> Regards,
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> Kevin
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> Kevin Trainor
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> *From:* topicmapsinlis-bounces at ligent.net [mailto:
> topicmapsinlis-bounces at ligent.net] *On Behalf Of *Liliana Melgar E.
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 05, 2009 4:11 PM
> *To:* Open Library -- general discussion
> *Cc:* topicmapsinlis at ligent.net
> *Subject:* Re: [TopicMapsInLIS] [ol-discuss] Interface for merging authors
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> Hi,
>
> I wonder why the library community, as far as I know, hasn't considered the
> Topic Map model for all this purposes. As I understand, this standard (*
> ISO*/IEC 13250:2000) has many possibilities for merging, for modelling
> many types of structures (including Marc, Dublin Core, FRBR, thesauri,
> taxonomies, etc.), for managing multilinguality (with the scope
> functionality) and many things to say about how to identify things in the
> Web.
>
> Does anyone knows if Library of Congress or OCLC has consider Topic Maps
> in their possibilities for the current and future projects?
>
> And I agree, what an interesting thread...
>
> Liliana
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> 2009/2/5 Karen Coyle <kcoyle at kcoyle.net>
>
> David Mimno wrote:
> > I can not approach the thoroughness with which Lee addressed these
> issues,
> > but I would like to echo his implicit plea that the library technical
> > community build closer relationships with current research in data
> > processing, particularly in XML databases and what is alternately called
> > record linkage, database deduplication, and named entity coreference.
> >
> >
> >
>
> This work has begun in various quarters. In fact, even the MARC
> advocates, Library of Congress, have recently agreed to register their
> data elements in RDF and SKOS, and make them available as LOD. The
> newest set of cataloging rules (which have virtually nothing to say
> about the record format) have resulted in an RDF registry of properties
> (http://metadataregistry.org) and SKOS values. Real soon now we hope to
> have the FRBR entities registered so we can create application profiles
> that address work, expression, manifestation and item. All of these use
> URIs as identifiers for properties and values. With these in place it
> will be plausible to experiment with new record formats. However, I hope
> that the end result is that library data gets out of databases and on to
> the web. Lee's 'normal forms' notwithstanding, hiding data in databases
> today is... hiding data. MODS, while more flexible than MARC, carries
> forward the 'data in database' concept and doesn't use linked data
> forms. I see MODS as a 'sandbox' for early experimentation, and as that
> it has served us well. But it's time to move on. Right now we're
> investigating how to connect the OL with DBpedia. It's an interesting
> balance between structure and user-friendliness. But with today's
> technology, I think that LOD is the way to go.
>
> kc
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Liliana Melgar
Erasmus Mundus student
International Master in Digital Library Learning
http://dill.hio.no
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