ALIAOnline Practical Linked (Open) Data for Libraries, Archives & Museums

Practical Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives & Museums

Jon VossHistorypin Strategic Partnerships Director

We Are What We Dojon.voss@wearewhatwedo.org

@jonvoss@historypinhistorypin.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohiouniversitylibraries/3485066089/

http://www.evolutionoftheweb.com

Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums#LODLAM

Culture Technology Law

New ParadigmMaking This A Reality

Culture Technology Law

http://bit.ly/WlscLJ

http://research.culturalequity.org/rc-b2/get-audio-detailed-recording.do?recordingId=4231

http://www.paulhagon.com/2008/08/19/powerhouse-street-view-mashup/

History and Mashup Culture2010 National Archives Photo Contest

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History and Mashup CultureNARA mashup on Historypin

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37377809@N00/5304492185/in/pool-1633053@N21/

Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway

http://burritojustice.com/2010/02/10/yesterdays-baseball-is-tomorrows-safeway/

http://oldsf.org

http://shawnclover.com

LawCulture Technology Law

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasjwoods-com/2264301251

Going from Tables to Graphs

Going from Tables to GraphsNodes and links in a graph

msulibraries lookbackmaps

msulibraries internetarchive

msulibraries librarycongress

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internetarchive librarycongress

Going from Tables to GraphsAs computing power increases, the ability to build more and more complex graphs becomes a reality.

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Introducing TriplesNodes and Links

• Quite simply: Subject, Predicate, Object

• gives us the ability to describe entities in a way that is machine readable

jonvoss 1n9r1d

http://inkdroid.org/ehs.rdf

What do we know about the person: Ed Summers (aside from the fact that he rocks)?

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Bio: Hacker for libraries, digital archaeologist, pragmatist.

Triples for machines

• Triples can be serialized in many different ways, including Resource Description Framework, RDF/XML, RDFa, N3, Turtle, etc, but they all describe things in the <subject><predicate><object> format.

• Of course, we need to be consistent and predictable for machines to understand us.

• We need to follow simple rules and protocols

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oface/3306994117/

http://inkdroid.org/ehs.rdf

• Consider graph demo: http://civilwardata150.net

• Civil War vocabulary, or a way to link and traverse across datasets• Regiments, Battles, Places

• Building apps that use this data

http://conflicthistory.com

http://conflicthistory.com

http://conflicthistory.com

http://dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation/

http://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/streetlifeinlondon

http://timwray.net/2011/12/canvas/

https://www.smalldemons.com

http://invisibleaustralians.org

New Tools Enabling Better Sharing

Culture Technology Law

Metadata vs. data, assets, digital surrogates, images

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/2003653763/

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003653763/marc/

CC BY

Open Data

CC0

Public Domain Mark

Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)Attribution License (ODC-By)Open Database License (ODC-ODbL)

Legal Tools

CC BY-SA

Open (ish)

Published (NOT OPEN) Data

Legal Tools

CC BY-ND

CC BY-NC

CC BY-NC-ND

CC BY-NC-SA

Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums#LODLAM

Culture Technology Law

2010

British LibraryStanford University University of MichiganOpen LibraryCERN

VIAFID.LOC.GOV

W3C LLD

Roy

Roy Tennant

OCLC Researchtennantr@oclc.org

@rtennant

The World of Linked Data

Roy TennantOCLC Research

The World of Linked Data

The World of Linked Data

The Linked Data cloud as a whole grew by 300% in

2010...

...whereas the amount of data

relevant for libraries grew by nearly

1000%http://swib.org/swib11/

Library Linked Data

British National Library

Series

Subject

SeriesSeriesSeries

PublicationEvents

Author

SeriesSeries

Resource

OCLC Linked Data

Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)

http://viaf.orgHTML, RDF/XML

Dewey Decimal Classification

http://dewey.infoHTML/RDFa, RDF/XML, Turtle, JSON - SPARQL

FAST: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

http://id.worldcat.org/fastHTML, RDF/XML - Download

WorldCathttp://worldcat.org/Embedded RDFa - Download (part)

http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex

•  Short lived group •  Libraries, Publishers, Consumers, System Vendors, Linked Data, Standards Bodies •  Library is only one focus

Emerging BIBFRAME Model

Our Brave New World

“Moving from cataloging to catalinking”

Eric Miller, Zepheira

The World of Linked Knowledge

Ingrid

Ingrid Mason

Ingrid MasoneResearch Analyst

Intersect Australiaingrid.mason@intersect.org.au

@1n9r1dwww.huni.net.au

www.intersect.org.au

ALIA Online 2013 | Be Different. Do Different. Humanities Networked Infrastructure (Virtual Lab)

Ingrid Mason | eResearch Analyst | Intersect Australia

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503832@N06/http://linkeddata.org/

http://lodlam.net/

Linked Data.

• Goal is to enable researchers to explore and interpret the commonalities or divergences in the data.

• Multiple significant scholarly humanities datasets to pipe in and aggregate with varying levels of standards and technologies.

• Information design challenge to build an ontology and use linked data and controlled vocabularies for data to be aligned and related.

• Provide a virtual environment to explore this data and process with tools.

HuNI Data.

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Scholarly Data Providers

AusStageAUSTLANGMura & Pathways Media Archives ProjectEncyclopedia of Australian ScienceColonial Australia Popular FictionFind and Connect VictoriaAustralian Women’s RegistereMelbourne: the Encyclopedia of MelbourneeGold: Electronic Encyclopedia of Gold in AustraliaChinese-Australian Historical Images in AustraliaReason in Revolt, Source Documents of Australian RadicalismGuide to Australian Business RecordsAustralian Trade Unions ArchiveCircusOz Living Archive Video CollectionAustralian Film Institute Research Collection

Rethinking Resource Discovery.

• Goal is to enable researchers to explore and interpret the commonalities or divergences in the data.

• Support researcher needs to discern facts (what is?) and locate more information (where is?) drawing on Australian cultural scholarly data.

• Major task is to aggregate heterogeneous humanities data that may be related to digital representations e.g. digital text, audio-visual etc files.

• Method is linked data, using ontology and controlled vocabulary development.

• Outcomes are the researcher can move easily from: what is? to where is? in their information seeking.

Information Seeking.

• Information seeking is supported by intellectual access tools, which include library catalogues, archival finding aids, reference tools, subject databases, journal repositories and information resources (physical and digital).

• Critical step in information seeking is undertaken in preliminary visit to the “reference shelf” and it can often be revisited to satisfy research questions.

• What is the researcher question? What information can I find out about this person and their life, what they have done, etc. A classic biographical enquiry.

• Know the name and other facts associated with a person in the HuNI graph (in the lab) and follow a hyperlink to a range of web resources related to that person.

Metadata Mash Up.

• A mash up of reference tools and finding aids: factbooks, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, bibliographies and catalogues and archival registers.

• Link needs to be forged with the ontologies for domain resources e.g. TEI and resource discovery metadata.

• Exploring this with the crosswalk between CIDOC-CRM and FRBR-OO (latest draft) and keeping an eye on BibFrame.

• Same problem being explored in another NeCTAR virtual lab project: Human and Communication Science.

• Role of annotation and metadata in discovery of new knowledge or the means to elucidate new knowledge needs to be unpacked.

Australian Women’s Register

Ontology Development.

• Information design challenge to build an ontology and use linked data and controlled vocabularies for data to be aligned and related.

• Reading the data. Characteristics of the data determine the ontological components selected and the major “entities” (aka “access points” in library lingo).

• Identified early as: people, organisations, events, relationships, places, dates, resources, and subjects.

• Components from ontologies already available are being reused or kept in our sights: CIDOC-CRM, FOAF, SKOS, FRBR, FRBR-OO, BibFrame and PROV-O.

Project Links

@1n9r1d ingrid.mason@intersect.org.au http://www.intersect.org.au

@HuNIVL (project Twitter profile)info@huni.net.au (project email) http://www.huni.net.au (project website)http://apidictor.huni.net.au/ (project wiki)http://corbicula.huni.net.au/ (data store)http://corbicula.huni.net.au/gadget/ (data analysis tool)

Useful References

NISO. Information Standards Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2012 http://www.niso.org/publications/isq/2012 Europeana. Linked Open Data – What is it? http://vimeo.com/36752317 Linked Open Data – Libraries, Archives, Museums (LODLAM)http://lodlam.net/W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Grouphttp://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/Twitter hashtag: #lodlam Google Group: lod-lam@googlegroups.com

More Useful References.

LinkedData.org http://linkeddata.org/LinkedDataTools.com Introducing Linked Data and the Semantic Webhttp://www.linkeddatatools.com/semantic-web-basicsDATA.GOV.UK. What is Linked Data? http://data.gov.uk/linked-data/what-is-linked-dataAusGOAL http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/Creative Commons Australia http://creativecommons.org.au/Wikipedia. Resource Description Framework.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework

You’re not alone...

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Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums#LODLAM

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Who’s got next?

Join the LODLAM movementresources and community on http://lodlam.netask for help on Google Group or #lodlam on Twitterhttp://openglam.orghttp://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

Contribute! Start small, but START

Google Refinehttp://freeyourmetadata.org

Google Refinehttp://freeyourmetadata.org

http://summit2013.lodlam.net/challenge/challenge-entries/

Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums#LODLAM

Culture Technology Law

http://mashupbreakdown.com

The DJ in the Library?

http://youtu.be/Mt3qf3G3_TU

Practical Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives & Museums