Quoting Lee Passey <l...@novomail.net>: Thanks, Lee. I'll try to work through these to make sure that all of the data gets represented.
kc > > 1. See the thread that John Miedema started on June 7. > > 2. I only look at OL data when I need a large set of data for database > testing. I recall comparing the JSON data to the RDF back in mid-May, > and almost immediately finding incomplete data. Of course, the RDF > "template" has been in a state of flux, so I cannot guarantee that what > I saw then still exists (although in many cases I suspect it does). As I > run across examples I will post references here, to your attention. > > 3. The OL schema isn't. What is described on the web site is already > out-of-date, yet data entered using an older schema persists. My hunch > is that if you were to look at the oldest data you would find much data > that does not convert to RDF, which is understandable because you have > no way of knowing that that data even existed -- yet it does. I'm not > inclined to go out of my way to find some of these odd records for you, > but if I run across them on my way to doing other things I would be > happy to point them out. > > 4. Compare http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7051625M.rdf to > http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7051625M.json. You will note that the > JSON record contains references to the source text at Internet Archive, > which the RDF does not. It also contains a certain amount of > "administratrivia" (revision numbers, creation date, cover ids) that the > RDF also does not possess. Perhaps most importantly, the RDF does not > contain a reference to the corresponding work record which contains most > of the subject headings (but not the Dewey Decimal Number, which I would > have assumed would attach to a work and not an edition. Odd.) > > Remember, the actual data for any edition, work, or author is stored in > the JSON record. You cannot hope to look at the web presentation and be > assured in any way that you are seeing all the data; you must look at > the JSON record itself. > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > Ol-tech@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org > -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list Ol-tech@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-tech-unsubscr...@archive.org
