Michele,
Here is an example of an FRBR inspired Linked Data service created at that
the BnF. http://data.bnf.fr/. The aim is to federate resources from
different catalogues, finding aids, and other web resources managed by the
BnF and reorganise around three axis: works, authors, subjects.
The site is in French. But information in English is progressively being
put on the site. A specific ontology was devised, using existing
vocabularies. Info to be found here : http://data.bnf.fr/semanticweb-en
You can even find your example:
http://data.bnf.fr/12162107/rudyard_kipling_le_livre_de_la_jungle/ The
"universe" of the work is re organized, by clustering expressions,
manifestations, etc. + links to external resources, including Wikipedia,
Best regards
Anila
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Re: Linked data / FRBR question
Hi Ethan ?
I?m not sure I understand. Could you elaborate? I?ve looked at dbpedia
and I don?t really see how that matches what I?m looking for. I went to
the website and there?s lots of stuff about how dbpedia can be turned into
other tools, but I don?t see an operative/functional prototype of the kind
I described. Maybe I?m not looking in the right place?
Michele
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Dbpedia probably allows for this, if the adaptations for the Jungle Book,
for example, are listed in the wikipedia article.
Ethan
On Apr 12, 2013 12:29 PM, "Michele R Combs" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hello all --
Does anyone know of a project or a prototype that allows the end user to
display / discover / navigate relationships between a work and various
expressions of that work?
For example, let's say the work is Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
Let's say that I have in my collection 20 editions of the book, in English
and other languages; a videotape of the Disney movie; a complete run of
the comic book series Petit d'homme ("Man Cub") which retells the stories
in a futuristic post-apocalyptic setting; a copy of Neil Gaiman's The
Graveyard Book, inspired by The Jungle Book and with many scenes that map
directly to scenes in the original; a kids? video game in which Mowgli and
other characters from the book have adventures; the libretto + music from
the Orlando Shakespeare Theater?s 2006 adaptation for their Theater For
Young Audiences; a 33-1/3 LP recording of the Jungle Book Cycle by
composer Percy Grainger; original sketches and drawings by [some famous
artist] which the artist says were inspired by the book; a copy of a
Stephen King novel which includes quotes from the book; a poetry anthology
entitled Jungle Rhymes for which contributors wrote original poems about,
or related to, or somehow connected to the book; a book of lit crit essays
on various aspects of The Jungle Book; and lots more stuff.
So, in this hypothetical system, there would be a record for the work: The
Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, and there would be a record for each of
these items. There would also be relationships defined between the work
and each of the items, including the nature of that relationship, for
example ?edition of? ?adaptation of? ?translation of? ?is quoted in? and
so on. The end user could then look up a work and immediately see all the
items related to that work, and also see exactly how they are related.
For those of you know FRBR, this is basically the FRBR model. I?m
wondering if anybody has mocked up or prototyped or (gasp!) implemented an
end-user interface that makes those relationships visible to/navigable by
the end user.
I did google ?FRBR prototypes?, of course :) and I found a good amount of
stuff on back-end systems and algorithms for creating/maintaining this
data, but not so much on what it would/could look like to the end user.
I did find this one: http://blazing-sunset-24.heroku.com (may take
several seconds to load). Under "Genre" click on "Drama" and then look at
the list of results (the first one is "Citizen Kane"). The work info is
displayed first, followed by info about specific instantiations (or
manifestations, I can't remember the right term). This is still very
linear and "list-y," though, whereas I think it would be fun to see
something more graphic (info visualization rather than info list), and the
type of relationship is not given, but it's still quite interesting.
Anyway, does anybody know of anything?
Thanks --
+++++++++++++++
Michele Combs
Lead Archivist
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University
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