What can linked data do for me?

Janet AucockHead of Metadata and Content Acquisition

ja@st-andrews.ac.uk

CIGS Metadata and Linked Data: projects, experiments and services in libraries

Edinburgh, 12 September 2016

Miss Bathman Lean / Photo c.1870. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 25 May 2016. http://quest.eb.com/search/109_159852/1/109_159852/cite. Accessed 26 Aug 2016.

RDF 1.1 XML Syntax

SPARQL end point

JSON-LD, or JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data

How many URIs can I get

created today?

"Linking Open Data cloud diagram 2014, by Max Schmachtenberg, Christian Bizer, Anja Jentzsch and Richard Cyganiak. http://lod-cloud.net/"

• Dunce, Brian Diskin, (b.20th C./American), Drawing . Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 25 May 2016. http://quest.eb.com/search/107_3348023/1/107_3348023/cite. Accessed 28 Aug 2016.

What is that researcher really called? His name is like this in the catalogue but is like this in the repository? How do I fix it? I have the same issue with names for funders.

Can we enrich our catalogue interface

and make use of those rich Rare books

records

How can we better support research and

discovery of our resources?

Why can’t I get our archives metadata and photographic database metadata into our Discovery service and link people, names, places and topics together and make them cross searchable and more easily discoverable and connected together in context

Can we add value to our E-theses service in the St Andrews Research Repository. We add LCSH and LC classification, could we use this somehow?

Why does the Discovery service not offer any sort of authority control on names?

Why is the catalogue data from the LMS never up to date in the Discovery service?

http://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/digitalhumanities/fedora/repository/digitalcollections%3Aroot

https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/

http://library.st-andrews.ac.uk/

https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/collections/archives/

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/photographic/imu.php?request=home

Find some use cases

Text mining. Reciprocal linking?British Library and National Compound Collection Initiativec. 100 open access theses made available to the RSC project in 2014 and compounds deposited in ChemSpider http://www.chemspider.com/ http://www.chemspider.com/Thesis.aspx?thesis_id=692 http://www.chemspider.com/Thesis.aspx?thesis_id=687

Three Library systems from the SCURL Library Management Services Platforms Framework • Linked data and Alma and Primo http://

www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/LinkedDataDiscussionPaper • Linked data and OCLC https://www.oclc.org/en-UK/data.html • Linked data and Innovative https

://www.iii.com/sites/default/files/InformationTodayMay2015LinkedDataforLibraries.pdf https://www.iii.com/sites/default/files/Innovative%20Linked%20Data%20FAQ.pdf

Linked (Open) Data Support within DSpaceStarting with DSpace 5.0, DSpace provides support for publishing stored contents in form of Linked (Open) Data.https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Linked+(Open)+Data

There are opportunities• Build tools to create the linked data into our existing systems,

where we have our rich and well constructed data• Let the data flow freely and be reused across interconnecting

systems• Build the use cases into our existing requirements and get

this into our strategies and planning

Janet AucockHead of Metadata and Content Acquisition

ja@st-andrews.ac.uk