Swartz on the Open Library
Aaron Swartz was at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School on Tuesday and gave a talk about what the Open Library is doing and how it’s going. David Weinberger was there and blogged it. If you listen to the audio recording of Swartz’s talk(58 MB MP3) then you’ll hear that at about the seven minute mark he talks about FRBR. The Open Library plans on FRBRizing its collections, and from the sounds of it they’ll go beyond the usual stuff when they do relations betweens different entities. Excellent. Around the twenty-five minute mark, there’s a question about FRBR and how the relationships will be chosen and made. The whole thing is worth a listen.
UPDATE: Around thirty-six minutes in, Greg Crane is asked a question and some interesting stuff follows.