Re: OCLC and Linked Data

I find it interesting, but with a big caveat ...

A Library is a broker of bibliographic information.� The web, and Linked Data brokers a great deal of terminology and some bibliography.� Schema.org, probably predictably, and not necessarily with malice describes Organizations as generic on top, with the potential to deliver both terminology and bibliography.� In this scheme, a Library is a specialized Organization, and like all the Organization Types points to people rather than generalized, non-transferable, enclosure proof Intellectual Property assets.

If the model does terminology and will include bibliography "at some later date" then The Commons is left with no vocabulary to describe itself.� There is no Private Language of Librarians (Library-Centric Method) because, as Librarians will tell you, there is no such thing as a "Private Language"[1].� Money and Privacy are private metrics, not a private languages.


--Gannon

[1] http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85107036.html



________________________________
 From: Joseph Montibello <Joseph.Montibello@dartmouth.edu>
To: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org> 
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 8:58 AM
Subject: OCLC and Linked Data
 
Hi all,

I don't know if this has made the rounds, or if it's significant to people
here, but I'm interested to see if this generates any comment.

http://dataliberate.com/2012/06/oclc-worldcat-linked-data-release-significa
nt-in-many-ways/

This is a blog post about OCLC (library-centered non-profit organization)
releasing linked data for "hundreds of millions of bibliographic items."

Take care,

Joe Montibello, MLIS
Library Systems Manager
Dartmouth College Library
603.646.9394
joseph.montibello@dartmouth.edu