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Making Library Collections Discoverable on the Web Axel Kaschte Product Strategy Director EMEA OCLC 04. July, 2015 ICSTI Workshops Hannover

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Globalization

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Explain: Libraries shift their focus from collections on the shelf to the services they offer. Pressure on collection budgets. Trends Trend 2: Search for Distinctiveness Explain: As licensed content is available in commodity collections, academic libraries strive to declare their distinctiveness. Trend 3: Be Found on the Web Explain: As users search on the web, libraries want their commodity and distinctive collections to be found on the web. Improve Library Workflows Help Libraries Be Found on the Web Trend 1: Shift from collections to services

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Landscape: Vision for the Ecosystem "DBpediaLogo" by The DBpedia Team Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

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THE LIBRARY KNOWLEDGE GRAPH The Library Data Revolution personplace objectconcept organizationwork

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Umberto Eco Born: 5 January 1932 Alessandria, Italy Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist. Works Subjects Quotes Find Umberto Eco works at: Libraries near me | Online Retailers Semiotics | Religions | Thought and Thinking ArtPhilosophy | Foucaults Pendulum | Vodou The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

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Library data stored as entities personplace objectconcept organizationwork author subject item availability

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The library knowledge graph A graph of relationships personplace objectconcept organizationwork

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The library knowledge graph Works personplace objectconcept organizationwork

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The library knowledge graph Putting entities in library workflows Cataloging ILL and AnalyticsCataloging DiscoveryIntegration with the web

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ENTITIES AND LIBRARY WORKFLOWS The Library Data Revolution personplace objectconcept organizationwork

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Entities and library workflows Discovery The Name of the Rose Summary: The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. His delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and nights of apocalyptic terror. Subjects Borrowing Options eBooks | Printed Books | Audio Books Other Languages Monastic libraries -- Italy Fiction | Semiotics -- Fiction

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Entities and library workflows Cataloging Improve data quality Link to authoritative sources A new approach to cataloging Point and click cataloging Managing entities instead of managing records Consistent with RDA

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Entities and library workflows Web exposure Be found on the web Connect your users to unique content What the web requires for web exposure Aggregation Familiar structures A Network of Links Entity Identifiers

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WHATS HAPPENING The Library Data Revolution personplace objectconcept organizationwork

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15% of Web use Schema.org markup!

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Sponsored by The Library of Congress http://www.bibframe.org

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http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/ Schema Bib Extend

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http://www.BiblioGraph.net OCLCs Approach to Data Modeling Model things of interest to the web. Make those things available via structures familiar to the web. Improve library workflows.

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ENTITIES AND WORLDCAT The Library Data Revolution personplace objectconcept organizationwork

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197+ million Work descriptions and URIs Schema.org + BiblioGraph.net RDF Data formats RDF/XML, Turtle, Triples, JSON-LD Links to WorldCat manifestations Links to Dewey, LCSH, LCNAF, VIAF, FAST Open Data license via Linked Data Explorer 2015: Discovery API, Metadata API Released April 2014 http://www.oclc.org/data The Work Entity

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98+ million Person descriptions and URIs Person entities with authority: 20.2 million Person entities without authority: 78.3 million Schema.org + BiblioGraph.net Harvested from WorldCat data and enriched from other hubs RDF Data formats RDF/XML, Turtle, Triples, JSON-LD Links to WorldCat Works. Added links from WC Works. Open Data license via Linked Data Explorer 2015: Linked Data Explorer, Discovery API http://www.oclc.org/data The Person Entity

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VIAF, ISNI, FAST Publish Linked Data WorldCat.org Linked Data Release using Schema.org Internal agreement on data strategy Evangelism Research & Design with Data Architecture Group Data mining of WorldCat resources WorldCat Works Released 2012 2014 Application Integration WorldCat Discovery Analytics Discovery API Cataloging More Entities Released Person Manifestation Organization Concept New Products Continuing Evangelism New Services Continuing Innovation 2013 OCLC Entity- Based Data Strategy

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Metadata Globalization Global Library Network Global Information Network

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Explain: Libraries shift their focus from collections on the shelf to the services they offer. Pressure on collection budgets. Current Challenges in Libraries # 2: Search for Distinctiveness Explain: As licensed content is available in commodity collections, academic libraries strive to declare their distinctiveness. Rise of OA. # 3: Be Found on the Web Explain: As users search on the web, libraries want their commodity and distinctive collections to be found on the web. # 1: Shift from collections to services

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Lifecycle of scholarly communication Publish Write Read Study / Research Libraries WEB of data Students Researchers Librarians Managers

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Researchers Librarians Homework Managers

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Researchers Librarians Managers Homework As a librarian I would like to ____ so that ___. As a researcher I would like to ____ so that ___. As a director I would like to ____ so that ___.

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As librarian, I want high quality data from around the world so that I can support my universitys international business school. Examples: Identifying the Problems to Solve # 2: Search for Distinctiveness As a researcher, I want to identify original sources so that I can produce original findings in my grant funded research project. # 3: Be Found on the Web As a library director, I want to show that my library has global relevance and a durable future so that I can prove value to my skeptical chancellor. Improve Library Workflows Help Libraries Be Found on the Web # 1: Shift from collections to services

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Making Library Collections Discoverable on the Web Ted Fons, OCLC fonst@oclc.org