Comments on: Available Vocabularies and Datasets

By: Antoine Isaac

Antoine Isaac — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:22:10 +0000

Thanks a lot for spotting this, Adrian. We’ve updated the end of that section, see http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Draft_Vocabularies_Datasets_Section

We hope it’s alright!

By: Ed Chamberlain

Ed Chamberlain — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:03:24 +0000

Seconded. Matching against identifiers takes time and is prone to error. Some recommendation over which ones to focus on would be great

By: Ed Chamberlain

Ed Chamberlain — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:02:10 +0000

Two JISC funded projects based around Cambridge, Open Bibliography and COMET have made large library related datasets available, but it only goes so far.

I second Catherines’ point about article / citation level data, there is serious value here.

Furthermore, libraries could consider exposing operational data, holdings and anonymised circulation information to facilitate a richer range of interactive and recommendation based services.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:49:47 +0000

CKAN is mentioned here for the first time. Thus, it should be shortly explained or referred to a section where it is explained.

By: Alan Danskin

Alan Danskin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:56:08 +0000

This is partly a reflection of the [im]maturity of the technologies and the complexity of applying linked data to MARC data, which as is acknowledged elsewhere in the report, libraries are currently locked into. What is needed are models and tools to enable the conversion of MARC data. BL is looking at what would be necessary in order to release the tools we have used/created.

By: Alan Danskin

Alan Danskin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:54:25 +0000

The British Library has recently made available a preview of the British National Bibliography Dataset http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datafree.html . The difficulties involved in this undertaking were considerable and go a long way to explaining the lack of published datasets

The BL chose to make BNB the focus of its linked data work because it is a large data set for which the BL, as the national library of the United Kingdom, is responsible and its scope can be reasonably clearly defined.

By: Alan Danskin

Alan Danskin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:51:24 +0000

Maintenance and development of these deliverables is highly desirable and we welcome the steps that have been taken.

By: Alan Danskin

Alan Danskin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:50:19 +0000

A minor point, but LCSH is not limited to the topics of books.

By: Alan Danskin

Alan Danskin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:49:36 +0000

Thank you. These are useful resources; one of the difficulties with starting the BNB linked data project was knowing what is available and useful.

By: Patrick Danowski

Patrick Danowski — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:36:52 +0000

An analyze which datasets and which vocabularies are using which ontology (metadata fields) would be helpful to get an better idea which ontologies are widely used and which are not very common.