Over the years we’ve been engaged in a number of discussions in which the ‘readability’ of URIs was raised, either as an issue with non-readable URIs or as a requirement in new URI schemes.
At the Registry, we understand and are sensitive to the desire for human readability in URIs. However embedding a language-specific label […]
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This week, Karen Coyle wrote a post about LCSH as linked data: beyond “dash-dash” which provoked a discussion on the id.loc.gov discussion list.
It seems to me that there are several memes at play in this conversation:
LCSH and SKOS
As Karen points out, LCSH is more than just a simple thesaurus. It’s also a set of instructions […]
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is looking for someone to build them a wiki. At least I think that’s what they want.
From the Call for Tender page:“DCMI Call for Tender 2007-03: Wiki format for application profiles convertible into XML”From the DCMI home page:“Call for tender for a machine-processable application profile format”
I don’t think that these […]