Data. The final frontier.
On August 17, after I tested a search in our new Aleph OPAC and mentioned my surprise on Twitter, the following discussion unfolded between me (lukask), Ed Summers of the Library of Congress and Till Kinstler of GBV (German Union Library Network): lukask: Just found out we only have one item about RDF in our catalogue: http://tinyurl.com/lz75c4 edsu: @lukask broaden that search 🙂 http://is.gd/2l6vB lukask: @edsu Ha! Thanks! But I’m sure that RDF will be […]
If you do a search in a bibliographic database, you should find what you need, not just what you are looking for, or what the database “thinks” you are looking for. If you find what you are looking for, then you will not be surprised and you will not discover anything new. And that’s not what you want, is it? But if you find things you did not look for but also do not need, […]
Linked Data and bibliographic metadata models  Some time after I wrote “UMR – Unified Metadata Resources“, I came across Chris Keene’s post “Linked data & RDF : draft notes for comment“, “just a list of links and notes” about Linked Data, RDF and the Semantic Web, put together to start collecting information about “a topic that will greatly impact on the Library / Information management world“. While reading this post and working my way […]
Why use a non-normalised metadata exchange format for suboptimal data storage? This week I had a nice chat with André Keyzer of Groningen University library and Peter van Boheemen of Wageningen University Library who attended OCLC’s Amsterdam Mashathon 2009. As can be expected from library technology geeks, we got talking about bibliographic metadata formats, very exciting of course. The question came up: what on earth could be the reason for storing bibliographic metadata in exchange […]
One single web page as the single identifier of every book, author or subject I like the concept of “the web as common publication platform for libraries“, and “every book its own url“, as described by Owen Stephens in two blog posts: “Its time to change library systems “ I’d suggest what we really need to think about is a common ‘publication’ platform – a way of all of our systems outputting records in a […]