Bernhard Eversberg wrote: <snip> Compromise: Let machines do the work, ok, but think hard where and in what way to involve them. What I was suggesting is not really a different approach: Don't store http://www.something.xyz/abc/IdNumber but just IdNumber and have presentation/service software add the rest according to current fashion. </snip>
Yes. In my own opinion, implementing linked data does not necessarily mean redoing everything in your database to create new links, along the lines of adding all of the LCSH numbers to our records (blah!). That would be an incredible amount of work, and would ensure that all of that work would relate only to the library community, since nobody else will ever change to our LCSH numbers. I see linked data rather as taking the *data you already have* and repurposing it to interoperate in innovative ways with other resources. I think there is room for a lot of creativity along these lines. The final products may be quite surprising. I think we all agree here.... James Weinheimer j.weinhei...@aur.edu Director of Library and Information Services The American University of Rome via Pietro Roselli, 4 00153 Rome, Italy voice- 011 39 06 58330919 ext. 258 fax-011 39 06 58330992 First Thus: http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/ Cooperative Cataloging Rules: http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/
