Comments on: NTNU University Library – a Linked Open Data Hub http://openbiblio.net/2011/09/08/ntnu/ Open Bibliographic Data Working Group of the Open Knowledge Foundation Wed, 26 Nov 2014 08:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 By: Discovery silos vs. the open web - archaeoinaction.info http://openbiblio.net/2011/09/08/ntnu/#comment-17931 Sun, 23 Jun 2013 20:43:56 +0000 http://openbiblio.net/?p=1440#comment-17931 […] Greenall, (who wrote about NTNU’s LOD activities on openbiblio.net some time ago and from whom I took the “future-proof” terminology) […]

]]> By: Rurik Greenall http://openbiblio.net/2011/09/08/ntnu/#comment-429 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:02:32 +0000 http://openbiblio.net/?p=1440#comment-429 Up to now core vocabs have been rdfs, dcterms, bibo, foaf, skos and owl. We try to keep things relatively simple, using common vocabs and adding few properties and classes of our own. We have largely avoided relying on the explicitly library domain vocabularies, however we do some modelling using properties and classes from these (for the sake of those who are interested). If you’re interested in reasons why we avoid the library domain stuff, it’s simple: the models are entrenched in (often record-based) approaches that aren’t particularly interesting for us. It isn’t a problem for us to pick and choose properties from these vocabularies, but we have avoided wholehearted adoption of, for example, FRBR because — when we tried it — it gave us no real benefits or things that we couldn’t achieve in a simpler (non-domain-specific/more trivial) way.

When selecting vocabularies, we try to follow what seems to be best practice. For example, we have recently been working with the participation ontology and roles ontologies for this. We do a lot of domain-specific modelling (examples: people, theatre productions, roles), and we don’t do “simple” MARC-to-RDF conversions on the whole, we spend more time breaking up records and remodelling these into (re-)usable chunks.

On the whole, our approach to modelling means that we provide for our own business needs, and then add in extra stuff that makes the data usable for others. This entails a lot of redundancy, but I think it means we deliver a better data product.

]]> By: David F. Flanders http://openbiblio.net/2011/09/08/ntnu/#comment-425 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:44:50 +0000 http://openbiblio.net/?p=1440#comment-425 Great to see more of these testimonials by libraries, though wondering what vocabs are core to the org, ho and why these vocabs were chosen and most significantly what new vocabs are you looking at and why? #jiscExpo #jiscopenb

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