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3rd annual European BIBFRAME workshop17 September 2019

Linked Data in the LSP* FOLIO and Linked Open Data *

Charlotte Whitt | Product owner | Index Data

charlotte@indexdata.com

Reality, Speculation, Provocation

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Why are we here?

● YAZ toolkit for Information Retrieval (Z39.50)

● Zebra search engine

● Metaproxy Z39.50/SRU switchboard

● Pazpar2 metasearch engine

25 years of working with library data...

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Why are we here?

● Z39.50/SRU to SPARQL gateway (really!)

● MARC to BIBFRAME conversion (and back again)

● BIBFRAME Editor redesign

...and linked data...

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Why are we here?

Worked on architecture and high-level concepts for FOLIO and other duties as assigned

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Spoiler alert

There is no linked data in FOLIO - yet!

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So what is in FOLIO, then?

• Open platform

• Open processes

• Open community

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Open processes

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Photo by Hosea Georgeson on Unsplash

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Open platform

Stripes UI

UsersCheck outCheck in Inventory Requests

Okapi API Gateway

Circulation

Inventory Storage

Inventory

Circulation Storage

Users Storage

Users

Source Record Storage

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Open community

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So...where’s the metadata?

Stripes UI

UsersCheck outCheck in Inventory Requests

Okapi API Gateway

Circulation

Inventory Storage

Inventory

Circulation Storage

Users Storage

Users

Source Record Storage

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What have we build since 2018

Stripes UI

UsersCheck outCheck in Inventory Requests

Okapi API Gateway

Circulation

Inventory Storage

Inventory

Circulation Storage

Users Storage

Users

Source Record Storage

MARCCat

MARCCat

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Records stored ...as FOLIO and MARC

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FOLIO Inventory in format neutral - inspired by BIBFRAME

Inventory

BIBFRAME

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In the cloud...as linked data!

Stripes UI

UsersCheck outCheck in Inventory Requests

Okapi API Gateway

Circulation

Inventory Storage

Inventory

Circulation Storage

Users Storage

Users

Source Record Storage

Harvester

Cataloging Utility (e.g. LIBRIS, Passage)

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OK, this part doesn’t exist yet. Should it?

Stripes UI

UsersCheck outCheck in Inventory Requests

Okapi API Gateway

Circulation

Inventory Storage

Inventory

Circulation Storage

Users Storage

Users

Source Record Storage

MARCCat

MARCCat

LDCat

LDCat

Harvester

Cataloging Utility (e.g. LIBRIS, Passage)

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Some concrete next steps

• Analysing user requirements and concept development• Create a BIBFRAME to FOLIO Inventory crosswalk• Addressing non-instance entities• Build a prototype storage module and mapping to inventory• Implement synchronization with entities on the web• Build a BIBFRAME cataloging tool• ...

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QUESTIONS

Charlotte Whitt | Index Datacharlotte@indexdata.com