Coyle on Yee on RDF
Quick pointer to Karen Coyle’s blog post Yee on RDF and Bibliographic Data. (That’s Martha Yee.)
The difficulty that I am having at the moment is that it appears to me that there are some fundamental misunderstandings in Yee’s attempt to grapple with an RDF model for library data. In addition, she is trying to work with FRBR and RDA, both of which have some internal consistencies that make a rigorous analysis difficult. (In fact, Yee suggests an improvement to FRBR that I think IFLA should seriously consider, and that is that subject in FRBR should be a relationship, and that the entities in Group 3 should be usable in any relevant situation, not just as subjects. p. 66, #6. After that, maybe they’ll consider my similar suggestion regarding the Group 1 entities.)