On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Roy Tennant wrote:
David,
Could you elaborate a bit? In my mind, the only "semantic web technology" of
any note is "linked data". How that fits into "library search" is anyone's
guess, and I'm wondering what, specifically, you're referring to when you
say that Talis is active in this area.
If you are asking about library linked data, then there are several
examples, most notably the Library of Congress[1], the Swedish Union
Catalogue [2], and OCLC[3][4]. I believe that a minimum both the Library of
Congress and OCLC plan on releasing more linked data sets.
So can you elaborate a bit more on what, exactly, you're seeking? Thanks,
Roy
[1] http://id.loc.gov/authorities/
[2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.culture.libraries.ngc4lib/4617
[3] http://dewey.info/
[4] http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2009/09/viaf-as-linked-data.html
For some other information on what other groups are doing in this regard,
the DCMI (Dublin Core) just had a meeting in Korea two weeks ago, with the
theme "Semantic Interoperability of Linked Data"
http://www.dc2009.kr/
And there was a CENDI/NKOS workshop that I attended last week, that
featured many of the same speakers.
http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/2009workshop/NKOS-CENDI2009.htm
Both sites have presentations linked from their sites. I can forward on
my notes from the CENDI/NKOS workshop, but I'll warn you in advance that I
wrote them for a different intended audience (folks on an interoperability
project that I'm attached to), so I might've trimmed some stuff that's of
general interest to folks in libraries, while bringing out stuff that
isn't.
The CENDI folks are all US Government, but there seems to be a wider range
of people in NKOS. I don't know how much of it fits into the typical
'library' definition, other than the Library of Congress stuff that was
already mentioned.
-Joe
