Kate Guay, Senior Archivist

NWT Archives

kate_guay@gov.nt.ca

ACA 2016 – Montreal QC

Linked Data

Open Data

Leonard

Cohen

Wikipedia

Leonard

Cohen

homepage

Resource Resource

Click on link text

URL

Subject Object

Leonard

CohenPerson

Predicate

Leonard

CohenMontreal

Is a (has type)

Was born in

Mordecai

Richler

Montreal

Leonard

Cohen

Island

1934-09-21

Montreal

Person

1,649,51

9

Is a

Was born in

Was

born

Is an (Has the

geographic

feature of)

Has population

Is birthplace of

http://dbpedia.org/

page/Leonard_Cohen

1934-09-21

http://dbpedia.org/p

age/Montrealhttp://dbpedia.org/

ontology/birthDate

http://dbpedia.org/ontology/birthPlace

Examples include, but are not limited to…

• Dublin Core• MODS• FOAF

• Schema.org• OWL

• EAC and EAC-CPF

1. Make your stuff openly available on the web ★

2. Make it available as structured data★★

3. Use a non-proprietary format ★★★

4. Use RDF to identify your things ★★★★

5. Link to other people’s things using URIs ★★★★★

RAD is not for the user; RAD is for archivists

But…

We are in a position to provide trusted metadata for resources of long-term cultural importance

Foster discussion about open data and

rights management

Develop descriptive standards compatible

with linked open data

Apply our collective LAM experience in

curation, provenance and long-term

preservation to linked open data

Thomas Bexton, Allana Mayer, Rebecka Sheffield and Kyle Shockey for listening to me babble and/or help me form coherent thoughts (and sharing their coherent thoughts, too!)

Special thanks to Alison Hitchens, Head of Digital Initiatives at the University of Waterloo Library, who explains LODLAM in a way even my feeble brain can wrap around it easily; I hope I’ve emulated her approach even a little bit today.

Sincere heartfelt thanks to MJ Suhonos, who piqued my interest in the semantic web again 10 years after I first heard of it, and made me care deeply for what could be. Thank you as well for putting up with a tidal wave of confusing emails. Your patience and kindness are boundless.

Tim Berners-Lee (2009) The next web. A TED talk, February 2009. access at

http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html

Peter Neish (2014). Linked Data: Thinking Big, Starting Small. VALA 2014

Proceedings. http://peter.neish.net/wp-

content/uploads/sites/6/2014/02/VALA2014-Session-10-Neish-Paper.pdf

Sean Aery (2014) Schema.org and Google for Local Discovery: Some Key

Takeaways. Blog post 2014-03-27

http://blogs.library.duke.edu/bitstreams/2014/03/27/schema-org-and-google-

for-local-discovery-some-key-takeaways/

Ruth Kitchin Tillman (2016) An Introduction to RDF for Librarians (of a

Metadata Bent). Blog post 2016-03-26

http://ruthtillman.com/introduction-rdf-librarians-metadata/

Library and Archives Canada (2012). Canadian Subject Headings in

SKOS/RDF Format http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/canadian-

subject-headings-skos-rdf-format.aspx

Library of Congress. Bibliographic Framework Initiative

http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/

Library of Congress. LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies

http://id.loc.gov/

Borie, Juliya; Knight, F. Tim; and Hale, Jordan, "Challenging Classification

Bias with Linked Data" (2016). Librarian Publications & Presentations. Paper

18.

http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/librarians/18

The Muninn Project http://blog.muninn-project.org/node/3

Allana Mayer (2015). “Linked Open Data for Artistic and Cultural Resources.” Art

Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America (v. 34, Spring

2015) http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/680561

Kyle Shockey (2016) Wherefore art thou, linked data?

http://kyleshockey.info/2016/03/22/wherefore-linked-data blog post 22/03/2016

MJ Suhonos (2012) Open Data is Dead! Long Live Open Data! OLA 2012

proceedings. http://www.slideshare.net/robotninja/digital-odyssey-2012-open-data-

22257649

Alison Hitchens (2015) What is #LODLAM?! Understanding Linked Open Data in

Libraries, Archives [and Museums]. OLA 2015 proceedings.

http://www.slideshare.net/aehitchens/what-is-lodlam-revised-january-2015

Sam Popowich (2016) Some Thoughts from #lodlamto.

https://redlibrarian.github.io/introduction/2016/05/14/some-thoughts-from-lodlamto.html