ABES - Yann NICOLAS #elag2014

ABES & semweb

The long march towards a full-web-of-data infrastructure

for french academic libraries

Sudoc = french academic union catalogue

ABES = 3 + 1 databases

ABES web of data Linking to internal data as important as to external data

-Niklas Lindström / Yesterday

Dissertations

Books + serials

Manuscripts and archives

Authority data the pivot

DataBase

Format When?

RDF flavour Dump ? SPARQL ? URI to derefe-rence

Liens ext.

% of native data±

Calames XML (EAD)

2008 RDFa No No No * 40%

IdRef MARC 2010 RDF/XML Yes(non yet public)

No Yes ** 80%

Sudoc MARC 2011 RDF/XMLMicrodata

Yes(non yet public)

No (but in progress)

Yes ** 60%

theses.fr XML (TEF)

2011 RDF/XMLRDFa

No No Yes ** 75%

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Opening our data with RDF (2008- )

Towards a full-web-of-data infrastructure,at different levels,at different paces

Towards a full-web-of-data infrastructure,at different paces

Opening

. Each application has its own pace

. But they are converging

Towards a full-web-of-data infrastructure,at different paces

Consuming

. We need others to open their reference data :• ISSN registry• French companies registry (INSEE)• Research teams registry• Publishers• Etc.

Towards a full-web-of-data infrastructure,at different paces

Managing

. ABES project : « hub of metadata »

. Processing and redistributingsome publisher metadata :• www.licencesnationales.fr • french publishers

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Editing

. Emerging solutions : OntoWiki, Bibframe editor, RDForms, Libris, etc.

. But should we edit data as RDF ?

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