OK Richard
So in this senario if I'm looking at an item in the uniquely referenced source data how do I know whether or not Frankie (or anyone else) has put other data referencing the source data somewhere else on the web?
Trevor
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To: REYNOLDS, Trevor
Subject: Re: Science Museum, National Media Museum, National Railway Museum object records released
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<[log in to unmask]>, James Morley <[log in to unmask]> writes
>Absolutely.
>
>Which then also begs the question of when people do great stuff like
>Frankie did (and of course not forgetting that it's also the users of
>these tools/sites who are contributing), how do you feed that content
>back into the process and hence eventually, as appropriate, back into
>the source data, thereby capturing any enhancements?
This is where "quick and dirty" gets to argue with "do it proper" ;-)
If the source data were published as Linked Data, so that each object
had a unique dereferenceable URL, then Frankie could simply publish his
enhanced or additional data quoting these identifiers. This could be an
RDF dump, custom XML, or even some more CSV. Either way, the object
identifiers would act as uber-keys which attached each item of new data
unambiguously to its intended object.
Then, it doesn't really matter whether this "update resource" simply
sits separately on the Web, or is picked up by NMSI and actively merged
back into the source file.
Richard
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>From: Museums Computer Group [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mia
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>Subject: Re: Science Museum, National Media Museum, National Railway
>Museum object records released
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>On 11 March 2011 10:03, Frankie Roberto <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> large, fairly static databases like object
>> records, complete data dumps are probably more useful for developers than an
>> object-level API, at least initially.
>
>I should point out that 'static' is very relative - the documentations
>team (who are completely brilliant and are really the ones responsible
>for the success of this data release) made 50,000 improvements in
>2010, though of course there's a lot of on-going auditing and cleaning
>left to do.
>
>Cheers, Mia
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