On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This means that we will need a different subject scheme to use as an
> example in the DCAP document. I have looked at the GEM vocabulary
> suggested by Diane, but it is very small and specialized. I would like
> to find something else, so I am soliciting suggestions. One
> possibility is that we could use LCSH but with literal strings for
> values rather than URIs. That presupposes that we have a URI for LCSH
> itself, and the only one I know of is from the OpenURL set of
> registered URIs. Other ideas?
Small and specialized sounds preferable to LCSH as literal strings. It
seems to me that using a URI instead of a string is important to
stress in this context. You could use also use dbpedia:
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Mothers
Or perhaps the Royal Library of Sweden's subject authority:
http://libris.kb.se/resource/auth/154863
Or maybe Freebase:
http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/en.mother
All follow the same linked data pattern [1] as lcsh.info did, and
hopefully will again in some guise or another.
//Ed
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/
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