On Nov 27, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> However, and partially in response to John Myers' post, there is a difference between library authorities, which is a mechanism to control name forms (as identifiers), and full-blown entities that represent all information about the entity. I was hoping/assuming that our future model would be, as John says, a set of interacting entities, and that would mean greatly expanding beyond the minimalist authority data we have to something much fuller. To give an example, compare this authority record for T.C. Boyle:
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> http://tinyurl.com/c4gqtrb
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> with his Wikipedia entry:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._C._Boyle
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> The latter is actually a small Wikipedia page compared to many others, but it still provides much more information that may be useful to readers than what the authority record provides. The authority record was always intended to be a "back room" entity. I'm hoping that what replaces it has more information that is helpful to information seekers. "Lightweight abstraction layer" doesn't read like that to me.
The DBPedia resource for T.C. Boyle has most (all?) of the WIkipedia data in RDF:
http://dbpedia.org/page/T._Coraghessan_Boyle
One can imagine using the owl:sameAs relation to link other authorities like this.
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