{"id":78,"date":"2008-06-29T17:45:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T00:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=78"},"modified":"2008-06-29T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T00:45:31","slug":"ala-2008-what-i-have-found-out-from-an-attempt-to-build-an-rdf-model-of-frbr-ized-cataloging-rules-martha-yee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/06\/ala-2008-what-i-have-found-out-from-an-attempt-to-build-an-rdf-model-of-frbr-ized-cataloging-rules-martha-yee\/","title":{"rendered":"ALA 2008: What I have found out from an attempt to build an RDF model of FRBR-ized cataloging rules – Martha Yee"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/myee.bol.ucla.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Can we preserve all the good stuff we have created with cataloging? We spend too much time doing ‘admin’ work to keep local catalogs under control. See potential in the vision of the ‘semantic web’<\/p>\n

Martha summarising the concepts of the semantic web, RDF, RDFS, OWL, SKOS, URIs<\/p>\n

As an experiment, Martha decided to create a set of cataloguing rules that are more FRBRized than RDA – details available at her website<\/a>. Noting, she really doesn’t expect people to adopt these rules – it is an experiment<\/em><\/p>\n

Questions:<\/p>\n

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  1. Is it possible for catalogers to tell in all cases whether a piece of data pertains to the expression or the manifestation?<\/li>\n
  2. Is it possible to fit our data into RDF\/RDFS\/OWL\/SKOS<\/li>\n
  3. If it is, is it possible to use that data to design indexes and displays that meet the objectives of the catalog (providing an efficient instrument to allow a user to find a particular work of which the author and title are known, a particular expression of a work, all of the works of an author, all of the works in a given genre or form, or all of the works on a particular subject)?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The overall question is:<\/p>\n