[Koha-devel] Koha hackfest in Marseille & https://reasonablegraph.org/ platform

[David Cook]

I'm skeptical of anything that claims to implement BIBFRAME for production, since BIBFRAME appears to still be an experimental work in progress (https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/faqs/#q09). That said, it does seem like folk like Ex Libris are trying to use BIBFRAME 2.0 in production (https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/implementation/register.html). I suppose every technology needs its early adopters. I can see why places like Oslo Public Library, the National Library of Sweden, and la Bibliothèque Nationale de France are using their own schemas though. 

The ReasonableGraph Github only seems to have 1 contributor and a handful of commits. Mostly from 1 year ago and 15 days ago. I wonder what is missing? I haven't had time to deep dive the code yet.
https://github.com/reasonablegraph

That said, I'm intrigued by anything that claims to use Linked Data. To date, I've mostly only seen systems that use RDF stored locally. That is, that only link internally and don't resolve external links.  The most interesting example of Linked Data that I've actually found is with OCLC WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/title/good-omens-the-nice-and-accurate-prophecies-of-agnes-nutter-witch-a-novel/oclc/21678602. If you open the "Linked Data" section, you can see that "New York" from the top of the webpage comes from  this predicate and object: library:placeOfPublication <http://dbpedia.org/resource/New_York_City>. The interesting bit is if you go down to "Related Entities", you'll see 'schema:name "New York"'. I find that interesting because http://dbpedia.org/page/New_York_City doesn't have a predicate of schema:name. So, in theory, OCLC must be converting a triple from another vocabulary into Schema.org. Either that or they provide the link as the authoritative link and then just add their own local triple saying "New York". I suppose that's a possibility too. But it kind of defeats the purpose of machine readable Linked Data. But Linked Data is hard since you never know what you're going to get back from the other end.

At this point, what could Reasonable Graph offer for Koha? 

Apologies if that sounds rude at all. I've just been thinking a lot about RDF and Linked Data for the last couple of years. 

David Cook
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Cc: Nikos Papazis <papazis at altsol.gr>
Subject: [Koha-devel] Koha hackfest in Marseille & https://reasonablegraph.org/ platform

Hi koha-devel,

I had a hangout with Nikos (in cc:) , from Reasonablegraph. 
reasonablegraph is a platform (L-GPL) that is able to deal with MARC records, transform them into FRBR / Bibframe /linked data. They made some work with Koha (http://unioncatalog.reasonablegraph.org/?lang=en,
click on "Search" top-left)

At the end of Nikos demo, I suggested him to come to the hackfest for a day or two, in order to present reasonablegraph to anyone interested, and talk about any possible collaboration between Koha community and reasonablegraph. He will probably come.

That's another very good reason to come to Marseille in March :D

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Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries

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