My problem with bibo is that it's strongly oriented toward academic
journal articles... I would like to see a comparison to MARC, if anyone
has done that, which might give us an idea of what isn't there. For
example, I don't see the various work/work, work/expression
relationships. But it has great detail in some areas, like time
intervals and access rights.
kc
Tom Keays wrote:
The linked open data crowd might suggest:
Bibliographic Ontology Specification (aka bibo)
http://bibliontology.com/
Abstract: The Bibliographic Ontology Specification provides main
concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic
references (i.e. quotes, books, articles, etc) on the Semantic Web.
A lot of work has gone into this to make it work with a wide variety
of possible use cases. It acknowledges FRBR, but doesn't require it.
The Swedish national library uses a tiny fraction of BIBO, along with
DC and other RDF vocabularies. BIBO as a whole is much more granular
than MARC, but whether that makes it more or less suited as a library
format probably depends on who you are.
Tom
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Peter Schlumpf <pschlu...@earthlink.net> wrote:
Greetings!
I have been lurking on (or ignoring) this forum for years. And libraries too.
Some of you may know me. I am the Avanti guy. I am, perhaps, the first person
to try to produce an open source ILS back in 1999, though there is a David
Duncan out there who tried before I did. I was there when all this stuff was
coming together.
Since then I have seen a lot of good things happen. There's Koha. There's
Evergreen. They are good things. I have also seen first hand how libraries
get screwed over and over by commercial vendors with their crappy software. I
believe free software is the answer to that. I have neglected Avanti for
years, but now I am ready to return to it.
I want to get back to simple things. Imagine if there were no Marc records.
Minimal layers of abstraction. No politics. No vendors. No SQL
straightjacket. What would an ILS look like without those things? Sometimes
the biggest prison is between the ears.
I am in a position to do this now, and that's what I have decided to do. I am
getting busy.
Peter Schlumpf
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