Allan Cho, who blogs over at Allan's Library, has a new article out: How RDF Can Use MARC in the Semantic Web World: Using Existing Library Cataloguing Methods in Organizing the Web.
BTW, Allan also blogs at: The Postcolonial Librarian.
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I think the title of this article "How RDF Can Use MARC in the Semantic Web World" is completely misleading. The (not very well written) article consists of two, non-related sections. The first part is a very brief summary of the semantic web and RDF, then there is an unfounded comparison of RDF/SemWeb with MARC, which is the subject of the second part. What is said about MARC is basically not true, or at best food for discussion. MARC is absolutely not an example for RDF, because the two things are of a completely different nature. On the contrary, RDF, or better the Semantic Web Linked Data concept, can be used to create a better bibliographic format or data model than MARC is.
Posted by: Lukas Koster | Friday, June 05, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Thanks for this comment, Lukas. I'm not really sure this RDF/MARC analogy makes sense. Still thinking about it.
Posted by: Christine Schwartz | Friday, June 12, 2009 at 09:25 AM