Comments on: Benefits

By: Ed Chamberlain

Ed Chamberlain — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:58:58 +0000

This section makes some fairly high level assumptions about user understanding of HTTP.

Such interactions with the data would depend largely upon the nature of the applications built around it.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:34:29 +0000

“The openness of data is more an opportunity than a threat. One benefit may be a clarification of the licensing of descriptive metadata towards openness, thus facilitating the reusing and sharing of data and improving institutional visibility.”

Open licenses aren’t a benefit but an aspect of open data.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:33:09 +0000

Again, it is talked about openness but it hasn’t been made clear, what it actually means. In general, the paragraph seems a bit out of context to me.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:26:39 +0000

The term open is used here for the first time in the report. Its meaning should be made clear, e.g. by means of linking to a section where it is defined.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:22:59 +0000

“Citation management can be made as simple as cutting and pasting URLs.”

I’d use the broader term “URIs” here.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:12:14 +0000

Sorry, I attached this to the wrong paragraph.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:11:53 +0000

The distinction between “information produced or curated by libraries that describes resources or aids their discovery” and “data used primarily for library-management purposes” isn’t clear.

It’s clear that e.g. holdings information and user data are omitted. But what about circulation data for a resource, the number and frequency of lendings and co-occurence with lendings of other books? This can aid the discovery of resources through suggestions like “People who borrowed resource A also borrowed resource B, C and D” and thus might be covered by the report (but I think it isn’t).

By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:09:54 +0000

By: Alan Danskin

Alan Danskin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:47:31 +0000

BL’s experience with opening BNB data is that any restrictions on use will prevent re-use or aggregation of linked data.

By: Alan Danskin

Alan Danskin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:45:47 +0000

The top down model has been driven by economics: we can’t afford to provide the granularity that would serve the customers best. The potential to invert this is one of the exciting possibilities offered by Linked Data.