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Subject: Re: [BIBFRAME] Annotations (Was: Documents and improvements)
Rob - thanks for your comments, and just a few more of mine. I'll try
to reduce things down a bit.
First, it has occurred to me that, perhaps ironically, the "Functional
Requirements for Authority Data", FRAD, [1] is very close to OA.
Unfortunately, the English version isn't available online, but if you
grab one of the ones whose language you can make out, all that really
matters is Figure 2 (p. 7 in the French version, for example). It's not
exactly the same, but I sense a similarity in the intent, especially in
terms of making clear WHO is making the statement. FRAD adds one more
thing, which is under which rules the statement is being made. I could
imagine, therefore, BIBFRAME authorities looking much like OA if FRAD
is adopted.
On 5/5/13 2:17 AM, Robert Sanderson wrote:
Agreed, however these were simply to demonstrate that annotations
expressed in RDF require more than a single reified triple, to refute
the claim that we're simply reinventing RDF graphs. There needs to be
an ontology and defined structure.
Yes, and this is bringing up for me some work I'm doing around the
Dublin Core Application Profiles [2]. I need to catch some other folks
to have a discussion of this, but will get back to you if anything
interesting arises.
Yes, definitely. The cataloguing type of use cases I would see as
clearly annotations:
* Reviews / Notes
* Tagging / Subject classification
* Citations
Essentially, when the information is provided by a third party, then it
would be good to be expressed as an Annotation such that the provenance
information is maintained and is compatible with other systems that use
Open Annotation.
I'm still having a hard time with the dividing line between stuff and
annotations of stuff. A recent article explaining the OA concept [3]
said:
"Annotations describe resources with additional information, which is
valu-
able to other users, who are searching and browsing resource
collections."
If you have "additional information" then there must be "non-additional
information" -- and if you have a third party then there must be a
first party (the second seems to get skipped over in that analogy). I
don't think this is a generalizable question (one person's
"additional"... etc.), but at least for any community like libraries
some definition is going to be needed if annotations will have some
operational meaning. That's what I think is not clear (yet) in the
BIBFRAME document. I suspect that the division in library data will be
based on provenance, but that's not how BIBFRAME defines annotation.
The point I was trying to make is that the bibframe annotation model
has a property bf:annotationBodyLiteral, which has a literal as the
object. The Open Annotation model explicitly does not allow this, for
several important and well discussed reasons. Thus a point where the
two models are not compatible.
Right. But then again, DC types doesn't include "literal" as a type.
The whole typing thing is something I would need to think about more.
If your only interest is literal v. URI, then the BIBFRAME choice is
fine. If you have a video or sound file, that would be a URI. Something
that is interesting in the OA model is that it allows you to make
statements about the thing the URI points to [e.g. annotating a
particular coordinate area on a map]. I hadn't thought about that, and
now will have to go back to the OA document and see where that fits in.
This is one of those areas where the "meta" aspect of library data has
an affect. Must think more.....
Note that there is nothing about library data that would prevent anyone
from applying an Open Annotation to the data. The question is, do we
want this to be the only way to, for example, assign a subject heading
to a Work? OrI wouldn't assume that the BIBFRAME data will exist *as
is* in the open world.
Then I would seriously question why RDF is being used at all.
I see this differently, perhaps because of my work on Application
Profiles. I think that many communities will have an internal view of
their data, and another "face" that they present to the open world. The
basic structure of RDF, that is, triples, and the use of defined
ontologies, is a good way to organize data whether it is open or not.
In fact, there are enterprise uses of linked data. Modeling your
enterprise data on RDF makes it much more likely that you will be able
to extract a public view. In the Dublin Core arena we are looking at
Application Profiles as a way to add the constraints that are needed
within a community or enterprise that has some non-open needs, while
easily allowing the derivation of an open view.
Was the choice of annotation as a model discussed on this list (and
hence available in the archives) or was it simply presented fait
accompli?
Rob, what you and I are doing here is the full extent of our ability to
interact in the BIBFRAME process. If you look at the "Contribute" page
[4] of BIBFRAME you will see that the only involvement for the
community in the BIBFRAME development is discussion on this list.
Discussion that, like this thread, takes place generally between list
members with no direct involvement in BIBFRAME development. I would
have simply replied to you individually, but I'm of the mind that a few
readers on the list might find our musings interesting. In terms of
having any influence over the development of BIBFRAME, I have no such
conceit.
kc
[1] http://www.ifla.org/publications/functional-requirements-for-
authority-data
[2] http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-dsp/
[3]
http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/j
ournal/11042
[4] http://bibframe.org/contribute/
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