RE: Linked data based library web services

I couldn't agree more with Joachim's observation.  This group has identified Use Cases for vocabulary alignment and new ontology development, for example, but little focus has been given to the web services and/or network protocols that may need to be defined and formalized to better facilitate exchange, sharing, and linking.

I'd be happy to shepherd a new cluster on this aspect.

Warmly,

Kevin


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From: public-lld-request@w3.org [public-lld-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Neubert Joachim [J.Neubert@zbw.eu]
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 07:06
To: public-lld
Subject: Linked data based library web services

Hi all,

Web services with simple (and mostly non-RDF) interfaces are important to make our work accessible. A service delivering a JSON and/or XML representation of Linked Data entities makes it much more probable that this data is re-used by a broad community of developers inside and outside the library world. This is especially true for (value) vocabulary sercies, but could become relevant for example for services identifying a work, too.

Such services are mentioned in a number of use cases (e.g. [1], [2], [3]), but, as they are not in the focus of each single case, play a subordinated role there. As far as I've seen, they are not on the agenda of one of our clusters. So I'm afraid they could slip through the net for our final report.

In my eyes, this would be a pitty, and I wonder how we could make linked data based library web services part of our work.

What do you think?

Cheers, Joachim

[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Use_Case_FAO_Authority_Description_Concept_Scheme
[2] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Use_Case_Recollection
[3] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Use_Case_Publishing_20th_Century_Press_Archives

Received on Thursday, 3 February 2011 14:36:32 UTC