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deus ex machina

is there a library shaped hole in the web?16 October 2015

is linked data the answer?

Gill HamiltonDigital Access Manager


• about the Library and me• our modest experiments• Top Tips for preparing for LOD• is linked data the answer?


I’ll be looking at ….



National Library of Scotland by Ross G Strachan

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ross_strachan/6258819602



All images CC-BY National Library of Scotland




The Way Forward PDF

http://www.nls.uk/media/1190455/2015-strategy.pdf





Image CC-BY Gill Hamilton


• if I learned one thing it is …• dabbling in the DOD• The 3Rs

our experiments




LOD? Oh yeah I geddit!

Errr… no I don’t geddit

Ah that’s right …Errr…

Images CC-BY Gill Hamilton



What the hell is?SKOS RDF triple Store URI

SPARQL OWLTURTLE XSLT

Images CC=BY Gill Hamilton and God divides heaven … Public Domain

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel#/media/File:Separaci%C3%B3n.jpg



oh no!Oh No!OH NO!HELP!

Images CC-BY Gill Hamilton and God divides heaven … Public Domain




Och!Dinnae fash

yersel!

Images CC-BY Gill Hamilton and God divides heaven … Public Domain




you and I know it already …we call it interoperability

ye olden days

BM rules

AACR

MARC

collaboration

RDA

LOD

CL0SED

OPEN

Openvocs


dabbling in the DOD


http://www.math.uh.edu/~tomforde/images/UniverseAndMan.jpgAll images CC-BY National Library of Scotland



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• went to school to learn RDF

• tried mapping our data to DC Terms

• tried to discover URIs

• created RDF for a single resource

• published the DOD element set





RDA (and FRBR) [link]

RIMMF [link]

RDF

The 3Rs


https://access.rdatoolkit.org/

http://www.marcofquality.com/wiki/rimmf3/doku.php?id=rimmf



Images CC-BY Gill Hamilton



1. strings and things2. be smart, not dumb3. uniqueness….. and some more



Top Tip 1

we have strings“Hamilton, Gill”

but we need things too

we need URIs

THE BIGISSUE



machines are really stupid

Main catalogue Archive catalogue Moving image catalogue

Hamilton, Gill W. Hamilton, Gillian W. Hamilton, G. W.

you are really really smart



machines are really stupid

you are really really smart

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CC

-BY-SA

Trolld

erella

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PattiSmithHorses.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unidentified_horses#/media/File:Black_horses.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clotheshorse.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Trollderella



record just 1 more thing

the URIc’est tout!

stop digging



and … you might be lucky

Fingers Crossed by ~dgies CC-BY-NC-ND

https://www.flickr.com/photos/daniel_gies/5052886953



Get others to helpWe think this cathedral’s in

Cambrai

Or do you think

Cambraiis here?

Do you think

Cambrai is here?



Top Tip 2



Frankly my dear!I don’t give a

damn about your domain

Never, EVER dumb your data

WikiCommons - © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uncle_Sam_(pointing_finger).jpg


DODdata

structure DOD.titleDOD.keywordDOD.who

local & closed global & open

XSLT

LOD in DC


DC:titleDC:subjectDC:creator



Image CC-BY Gill Hamilton


DODdata

local & closed

global & open

DOD in LOD

structure DOD.titleDOD.keywordDOD.who

MAPPING

DC

RDA

SCHEMA



National Library of Scotland’s DOD RDF element set at Open Metadata Registry


http://metadataregistry.org/schema/show/id/64.html



Top Tip 3



concentrate on the unique

Order to Capt. Campbell by Maj. Duncanson

You are hereby ordered to fall upon the

rebells, the McDonalds of Glencoe, and put

all to the sword under seventy.



uniqueness is about

making the BEST use of limited resources

making the BEST contribution

making BEST metadata for LOD



1. record URIs2. don’t dumb the data3. work on unique stuff….. and some more



the other tips



ZERO

CC

openly licence your metadata



LCNAFLCSHTGMI

AATTGN

DDC … soon?

http://id.loc.gov/

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/

use open vocabularies

Library of Congress by The Agency CC-BY-SA

OCLC Building by Matkatamiba CC-BY-SA

Getty Institute by Pbjamesphoto CC-BY-SA

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LibraryCongressFront1.JPG

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:TheAgency

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kilgour_Building,_OCLC,_Dublin,_OH.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Getty_Museum_from_Getty_Research_Institute,_February_21,_2015.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pbjamesphoto



DEMAND better systems

Uncle Sam by James Montgomery Flag - Public domain

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uncle_Sam_(pointing_finger).jpg



So is linked data the answer?



Well maybe …

it’s risky!not convincing

but it’s worth the risk


Gill HamiltonDigital Access Manager

[email protected]

NationalLibraryofScotland@natlibscot

thank you


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