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British Library BBC RES data modelling

Page history last edited by Elliot Smith 7 years, 4 months ago

Work in progress on modelling various aspects of data from the British Library's Discovering Literature http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians site for use on the BBC RES platform. 'The Research and Education Space (RES) is a partnership project between Jisc, Learning on Screen and the BBC that aims to make it easier for teachers, students and academics to discover, access and use material held in the public collections of broadcasters, museums, libraries, galleries and publishers.'

 

Be bold - please edit the pages directly to add examples for suggested changes!

 

For further context, there's the BBC RES projects Requirements for publishers.

 

RDF Definition - Article

RDF Definition - Expert

RDF Definition - Item

RDF Definition - Person

RDF Definition - Teaching Resource

RDF Definition - Video

RDF Definition - Work

RDF Definition - Curriculum

Related shelf and space items

URIs for RDF data

VoID dataset Definition - Entry point

VoID dataset Definition - Sample collection

Comments (9)

Mia said

at 3:03 pm on Oct 6, 2016

An illustration of copyright in the Discovering Literature site:

If we assume an article like http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/duality-in-robert-louis-stevensons-strange-case-of-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde# is typical, then the overall article text is listed as https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The works shown on the page have a range of licences and copyright statuses, but that shouldn't affect the project.

Elliot Smith said

at 10:29 am on Oct 7, 2016

Some general comments about the schema:

1. I'd echo Mia and Corine's sentiments, and suggest reusing existing bibliographic ontologies where possible. RES understands the bibo (http://bibliontology.com) and frbr (http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core) ontologies especially. You could also use the blterms (http://www.bl.uk/schemas/bibliographic/blterms) ontology Corine mentioned. If there are any mappings we need to add to RES for terms in your vocabularies, we can figure that out, too.

2. Is the RDF going to be delivered in parallel with the main site? If so, we recommend that any resources have statements about where their formats are located, especially the RDF serialisation, as described here: https://bbcarchdev.github.io/inside-acropolis/#document-metadata.

Elliot Smith said

at 2:16 pm on Oct 7, 2016

A quick note that while looking for how to express Work and Article, I came across FaBiO (http://purl.org/spar/fabio/), an ontology which reconciles elements of bibo and frbr. I haven't come across it before (it's not mentioned in the Acropolis docs or any of the literature I've read recently). It looks like it could be a nice fit for the kind of data you're publishing.

Having said that, RES currently has rules for recognising frbr and bibo statements, so they have a privileged status with respect to the index. It would be worth sticking with those in the short term. There's no reason you couldn't go back later and add FaBiO statements (either adding them on top or replacing the bibo and frbr statements) if you felt it was a better way to express your data. I'm going to discuss it more with the RES team and see whether it's a good fit for inclusion in our rules which construct the index.

Mia said

at 12:17 pm on Oct 11, 2016

Thanks Elliot - sounds like it might be a good topic for discussion if a meeting of RES data providers/modellers is organised. I wonder how much traction it has 'in the wild' so far?

Elliot Smith said

at 8:06 am on Oct 12, 2016

I'm not sure it has huge traction (frbr and bibo are the most-used). Though versions of it have been around for a few years, I haven't seen many examples I can remember which use it (it may be that its perceived complexity has put people off using it). But from the perspective of finding a decent way to unify terms from frbr and bibo, it could prove useful.

Owen Stephens said

at 12:59 pm on Oct 12, 2016

FaBiO is part of a set of ontologies called SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) developed by David Shotton and others - there is a description at https://opencitations.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/introducing-the-semantic-publishing-and-referencing-spar-ontologies/

I'm not aware of this having a huge amount of traction

Alan Danskin said

at 4:43 pm on Oct 11, 2016

From an FRBR perspective an article is a form of Work. Each article is a work in its own right but in the context of the discovering literature collection, article is being used in a specialised sense of works that describe other entities, including works or persons etc. In a different context an article is a work that is published in a serial work, such as a news paper or journal.

Owen Stephens said

at 1:01 pm on Oct 12, 2016

As I mentioned in another comment, schema.org maybe worth looking at for some of these items

Elliot Smith said

at 4:32 pm on Oct 26, 2016

I think it would be worth keeping the bl schema (even though it doesn't exist on the web), as this gives additional information about relationships between resources. These can be mapped to rdfs:seeAlso links in RES.

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