GLAM Rocks! London Semantic Web Meetup

GLAM ROCKS UK 2012

adrian stevensonsenior technical innovations coordinator

mimas, university of manchester, uk@adrianstevenson

london semantic web meetup

bbc, white city, london, uk28th march 2012#londonsemweb

LOCAH

data.archiveshub.ac.uk

blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah

LINKING LIVES

archiveshub.ac.uk/linkinglives

wraggelabs.com/shed/presentations/anzi

ldch.da.ulcc.ac.uk/index.php/Linked_data_for_cultural_heritage

#sxsw #lodlamwww.bl.uk/bibliographic/

datafree.html

BRITISH LIBRARY

#sxsw #lodlam

BRITISH MUSEUM

collection.britishmuseum.org

DISCOVERY

discovery.ac.uk

#sxsw #lodlam

BRICOLAGE

bricolage.ilrt.bris.ac.uk

• archon – kasabi.com/dataset/archon/

• SALDA – blogs.sussex.ac.uk/salda/

• openArt – yorkdl.wordpress.com/category/openart

• OEM-UK - ioeoemuk.wordpress.com/

• contextual wrappers - contextualwrappers2.wordpress.com/

• openbib – openbiblio.net/

• comet – cul-comet.blogspot.co.uk/

• trenches to triples – trenchestotriples.blogspot.co.uk/

• open Book – jiscopenbook.wordpress.com/about

• digital.bodlean

MORE GLAM ROCK

#sxsw #lodlam

DISCOVERY WW1 EXEMPLAR

jiscww1.jiscinvolve.org/wp/jisc-ww1-discovery-programme

TRICKY STUFF

WHERE’S THE DATA?

“you shouldn’t be allowed to

publish linked data unless

you’re using some”

chris gutteridge,university of southampton

NAME MATCHING

<reg dwight> <sameAs> <??>

<james osterberg> <sameAs> <??>

<j a genzale> <sameAs> <??>

<stuart goddard> <sameAs> <??>

• dirty data, URI persistence.• data modelling can be hard– Steep learning curve– Complexity

• how sustainable are the data sources?

• how scalable are triple stores?• can you track the provenance of

data sources?• are data licensing issues covered?

MORE TRICKY STUFF

BIBLIOGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK

www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html

adrian stevensonmimas, university of manchester, ukadrian.stevenson@manchester.ac.uk

www.mimas.ac.uk

@adrianstevensonwww.linkedin.com/in/adrianstevensonwww.slideshare.net/adrianstevenson

attribution and cc license

sections of this presentation adapted from materials created by other members of the LOCAH

& Linking Lives projects

this presentation available under creative commons non commercial-share alike

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/