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The world’s libraries. Connected.
Linked DataRadical Change?
Richard WallisTechnology Evangelist@rjw
InetBib Berlin - 4th March 2013
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Linked Data?
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Linked Data?Hmmm..
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Linked Data?
What is it?
Hmmm..
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Linked Data?
What is it?
Where did it come from?
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Linked Data?
What is it?
How is it used?
Where did it come from?
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Linked Data?
What is it?
How is it used?
What will it lead to?
Where did it come from?
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Linked Data?
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Linked Data?
The Web..
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Linked Data?
The Web..
..of data
Linked Data Principles
Is Not a Standard
Linked Data
Linked Data Principles
1. Use URIs as names for things
Linked Data Principles
1. Use URIs as names for things
2. Use HTTP URIs so people can look up those names
Linked Data Principles
1. Use URIs as names for things
2. Use HTTP URIs so people can look up those names
3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards - RDF
Linked Data Principles
1. Use URIs as names for things
2. Use HTTP URIs so people can look up those names
3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards - RDF
4. Include links to other URIs, so that they can discover more
Tim Berners-Lee - 2006
Linked Data Principles
@Fascinatingpics
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@Fascinatingpics
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Linked Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.
• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions
Linked Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.
• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions• Embedded RDFa
Linked Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.
• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions• Embedded RDFa• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
Linked Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.
• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions• Embedded RDFa• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST• License: ODC-BY
Linked Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.
• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions• Embedded RDFa• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST• License: ODC-BY• Experimental - June 2012
Linked Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Linked Data• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions• Embedded RDFa• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST• License: ODC-BY• Experimental - June 2012
Download file• Most widely held works
(250+ holdings)
• 1.2 Million resources(80 million triples)
• Schema.org + Extensions• License: ODC-BY• August 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Linked Data• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions• Embedded RDFa• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST• License: ODC-BY• Experimental - June 2012
http://worldcat.org http://purl.oclc.org/dataset/WorldCat
is
good enough ?
is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange
is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange - No
is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange
• For sharing library data with the world
- No
is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange
• For sharing library data with the world
- No
- Almost
http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex
• Short lived group
• Libraries, Publishers, Consumers, System Vendors, Linked Data, Standards Bodies
• Library is only one focus
BIBFRAME
BIBFRAME
http://bibframe.org
It is the foundation for the future of bibliographic description that happens on, in,
and as part of the web and the networked world we live in.
bibliographic descriptionas part of the web
BIBFRAME
http://bibframe.org
bibliographic description as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics
bibliographic description as part of the web
?
@Fascinatingpics
bibliographic description
≈ complimentary ≈
as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics
bibliographic description
Challenges for change
≈ complimentary ≈
as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics
bibliographic description
• Metadata for ‘items’
Challenges for change
≈ complimentary ≈
as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics
bibliographic description
• Metadata for ‘items’
• Searching for ‘works’
Challenges for change
≈ complimentary ≈
as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics
bibliographic description
• Metadata for ‘items’
• Searching for ‘works’
• Materials of all types - print / e / digital
Challenges for change
≈ complimentary ≈
as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics
Where do I start?
@Fascinatingpics
@Fascinatingpics
@Fascinatingpics
@Fascinatingpics
@Fascinatingpics
@Fascinatingpics
@Fascinatingpics
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Do I need to link to everywhere?
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Do I need to link to everywhere?
Link to partnersand hubs
They will interlink
h"p://wallpapersfor.me/storm-‐beacon/
Be visibleOn the Web of Data
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Be visibleOn the Web of Data
h"p://wallpapersfor.me/storm-‐beacon/
Be visibleOn the Web of Data
Light the way to your resources...
Stop Copying
Stop Copying
Start Linking
Be of the Webof Data
We are moving fromcataloguing
We are moving fromcataloguing
to
h"p://catalinkingEric Miller -‐ Zepheira
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Linked Data
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Linked Data Radical Change?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldformylens/6537249151/
Linked Data Radical Change?
Radical Evolution!
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Linked Data Radical Change?
Radical Evolution!
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Linked DataRadical Change?
Richard WallisTechnology Evangelist@rjw
InetBib Berlin - 4th March 2013