The Swedish Media Databaseand Linked Data

London May 27 2010

Markus SköldSenior Developer, Dept. of Audiovisual MediaNational Library of Swedenmarkus.skold@kb.se

Audiovisual Media

• National Archive for Audiovisual Material

• 1.5 TB ingested daily• ~3 million hours digitally

available• ~5 million hours available

via on-demand digitization 

SMDB System

Cool URIs

http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/<number>

http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/002573900

http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/002455164

http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/002455164/19

XA_tv4_tv4scifi_2009-02-14_130000_140000.mpgXA_tv4_tv4scifi_2009-02-14_140000_150000.mpg

http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/002455164/19

/play

APIs

The old 78 rpm crowd

MySMDB

SRUSOAP

JSONREST-XML

Joint project between SMDB, Libris and National

Archive of Sweden

Linked Data

Harvesting links through open APIs

http://smdb.kb.se/resource/id/002573900=>HTTP 303 

http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/002573900=>text/html

http://smdb.kb.se/catalog/id/002573900.rdf=>application/rdf+xml

Content Negotiation

Questions?