Can bibliographic data be put directly onto the semantic web?

Information Technology and Libraries

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 55-68

  Yee, Martha M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 67650468530     PISSN: 07309295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6017/ital.v28i2.3175     Document Type: Article

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1. "Notation3, or N3 as it is more commonly known, is a shorthand non-XML serialization of Resource Description Framework models, designed with human-readability in mind: N3 is much more compact and readable than XML RDF notation. The format is being developed by Tim Berners-Lee and others from the Semantic Web community." Wikipedia, "Notation 3," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation-3 (accessed Feb. 19, 2009).
2. FRBR Review Group, www.ifla.org/VII/sl3/wgfrbr/; FRBR Review Group, FRANAR (Working Group on Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records), www.irfla.org/VII/d4/wg-franar.htm; FRBR Review Group, FRSAR (Working Group, Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records), www.ifla.org/VII/s29/wgfrsar.htm; FRBRoo, FRBR Review Group, Working Group on FRBR/CRM Dialogue, www.ifla.org/VII/sl3/wgfrbr/FRBR-CRMdialogue-wg.htm.
3. Library of Congress, Response to On the Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2008): 24, 39, 40, www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/news/ LCWGRpt Response-DM-053008.pdf (accessed Mar. 25, 2009).
4. Ibid., 39.
5. Ibid., 41.
6. Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, DCMI/RDA Task Group Wiki, http://www.dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/ (accessed Mar. 25, 2009).
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8. See for example table 6.3 in FRBR, which maps to manifestation every kind of data that pertains to expression change with the exception of language change. IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (Munich: K. G. Saur, 1998): 95, http://www.ifla.org/VII/sl3/frbr/frbr.pdf (accessed Mar. 4, 2009).
9. Roy Tennant, "MARC Must Die," Library Journal 127, no. 17 (Oct. 15, 2002): 26.
10. W3C, SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference, W3C Working Draft 29 August 2008, http://www.w3.org/ TR/skos-reference/ (accessed Mar. 25, 2009).
11. The extract in figure 1 is taken from my complete RDF model, which can be found at http://myee.bol.ucla.edu/ycrschemardf.txt.
12. Mary W. Elings and Gunter Waibel, "Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing Across Libraries, Archives and Museums," First Monday 12, no. 3 (Mar. 5, 2007), http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/ index.php/fm/article/view/1628/1543 (accessed Mar. 25, 2009).
13. OCLC, A Holdings Primer: Principles and Standards for Local Holdings Records, 2nd ed. (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 2008), 4, http://www.oclc.org/us/en/ support/documentation/localholdings/primer/Holdings%20Primer%202008.pdf (accessed Mar. 25, 2009).
14. The Library of Congress Working Group, On tte Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2008): 30, http://www.loc.gov/ bibliographic-future/news/lcwg-ontherecord-jan08-final.pdf (accessed Mar. 25, 2009).
15. Talis, Sir Tim Berners-Lee Talks with Talis about the Semantic Web: Transcript of an Interview Recorded on 7 February 2008, http://talis-podcasts. s3.amazonaws.com/twt20080207-TimBL.html (accessed Mar. 25, 2009).
16. Bruce D'Arcus, e-mail to author, Mar. 18, 2008.
17. Ibid.
18. Rob Styles, e-mail to author, Mar. 25, 2008.
19. Bruce D'Arcus, e-mail to author, Mar. 18, 2008.
20. Rob Styles, e-mail to author, Mar. 25, 2008.
21. W3C, "Section 2.3, Structured Property Values and Blank Nodes," in RDF Primer: W3C Recommendation 10 February 2004, http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf- primer/#structuredproperties (accessed Mar. 25, 2009).
22. Robert Maxwell, FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed (Chicago: ALA, 2008).