I started preparing a longer answer to this, and still will provide one
eventually.
But first, to really answer the question, we need some more information
from you. What data do you actually have of value? Just saying "we have
FRBRized data" doesn't really tell me, "FRBRized data" can be almost
anything, really. Can you tell us more about what value you think
you've added to your data as a result of your "FRBRization"? What do
you have that wasn't there before? Better relationships between
manifestations? Something else?
I forget, were you focusing on specific material types (music or moving
image?) in this project, or is this just general materials, covering the
gamut of what one would expect from a major academic library? If you've
done special work with music or moving image, what is the nature of the
value added there?
Do these questions make sense? To know how I might want to use the
data, I need to know a bit more about what you've actually got that's
useful, which "it's FRBRized" doesn't really tell me.
But as far as "do you want real-time querries to a web service, or bulk
download of the data?" -- yes, I'd want both, probably. Either one will
be the most convenient depending on what I'm trying to do. If you _had_
to pick one, it would be 'bulk download', because _anything_ is possible
with bulk download -- but for certain uses, it can take a lot more work
on my part for bulk download, so if that's all there is there, it will
be a higher barrier for use than if real-time web api was available.
But if _only_ real-time querries are available, then certain things are
just impossible (mainly indexing-time enhancement of my data).
Jonathan
Riley, Jenn wrote:
Hi all,
At Indiana University we're working on a project that will help us see
concretely what FRBRized [1] library data and discovery systems might look
like. [2] One of our project goals is to share the raw FRBRized data widely
so that others can look at it to see how it's structured, reuse it, improve
on it, comment on the FRBRization effectiveness, etc. We're planning on
allowing remote/Web Services/API/SRU/some machine-to-machine method like
that access to the data. As we're starting to think about how we should set
that up, we thought it would be useful to gather some use cases from the
code4lib community, as it's the folks here that are experimenting with
services like this. So if there were FRBRized data available to you (at
least for FRBR group 1 and group 2 entities; *maybe* group 3 as well), what
would you do with it? What kinds of questions would your service (discovery
system, whatever) ask a service that made this data available? What kinds of
information would you want in a response? Would you have uses that called
for downloading of "all" data at once or would you instead be better off
with real-time queries to a web service? It's questions like that we're
interested in brainstorming with this group about.
Basically, what type of access to the data we're generating is most
important, since we have finite resources to expend on this right now.
Thanks, all!
Jenn
[1] http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF
[2] http://vfrbr.info
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Jenn Riley
Metadata Librarian
Digital Library Program
Indiana University - Bloomington
Wells Library W501
(812) 856-5759
www.dlib.indiana.edu
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