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It's not so much the data model, as the interlinkedness (for lack of a better term) that was very much posited as the way forward. In the Bib world things like
by philjohn 4y ago
It's not so much the data model, as the interlinkedness (for lack of a better term) that was very much posited as the way forward.
In the Bib world things like the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) so every system talking about the author Charles Dickens used the exact same identifier for him, allowing different data stores to be easily traversed and linked together, by design.
- afandian 4y agoI'm in a similar space (bibliographic metadata, DOIs etc) but not too familiar with this area. Did the desire for interlinkedness go away? What in particular changed? Was an authority file seen as a replacement for a more organic RDF model?
- philjohn 4y agoI've not been in the space for 6 years at this point, but a lot of the "cool stuff" being done seems to have died down - partly this was some bad decisions (IMHO) taken by the committee looking to replace Marc21 (Bibframe?), running Quad Stores at scale is still pretty niche etc.