There is such tool for RDF: SPARQL Federated Query: https://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-sparql11-federated-query-20130321/ On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:46 PM, James Weinheimer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 2/9/2016 1:06 PM, Folsom, Steven wrote: >> >> To take the points James makes further— [hopefully] we’ll start seeing >> data produced outside of the library context brought into our workflows >> more and more, with less and less overhead. > > > Of course, this is happening right in those libraries that have implemented > a "discovery tool" that search multiple websites at once and return a single > result. Or other systems that take records from wherever they find them, do > some basic conversions, and import them into the catalog. From the user's > point of view, everything they see in that tool belongs to the "catalog". > So, lots of times data produced outside libraries is being brought in, > completely bypassing our workflows. > > It remains to be seen what consequences this will have, but it is happening > now. Implementing URIs instead of text strings may help .... a little bit. > > > James Weinheimer [log in to unmask] > First Thus http://blog.jweinheimer.net > First Thus Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/FirstThus > Personal Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/james.weinheimer.35 > Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JamesWeinheimer > Cooperative Cataloging Rules > http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/ > Cataloging Matters Podcasts > http://blog.jweinheimer.net/cataloging-matters-podcasts > The Library Herald http://libnews.jweinheimer.net/ > > [delay +30 days]