FRBR in RDF
Ian Davis—technical lead for the Silkworm project at Talis—and Richard Newman have announced the first public draft of an RDF OWL schema for the FRBR. It’s the first publicly available schema for the FRBR as far as I’m aware, and it’s RDF, which means it’s designed to be used in the context of other more domain-specific ontologies. It can begin to put in place the metadata plumbing that allows answers to queries like “give me all German-language expressions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet” or “give me all manifestations of Bob Marley’s ‘Burnin.”
This could be really interesting!
BTW, to see a pretty functional demo of what an FRBR-based search interface might look like for standard library data, see the FictionFinder.
