Linked data radical change

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Linked DataRadical Change?

Richard WallisTechnology Evangelist@rjw

InetBib Berlin - 4th March 2013

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldformylens/6537249151/

Linked Data?




Linked Data?Hmmm..




Linked Data?

What is it?

Hmmm..




Linked Data?

What is it?

Where did it come from?




Linked Data?

What is it?

How is it used?





Linked Data?

What is it?

How is it used?

What will it lead to?




http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanaka/3212373419/

Linked Data?




Linked Data?

The Web..




Linked Data?

The Web..

..of data



Linked Data Principles

Is Not a Standard

Linked Data


1. Use URIs as names for things



2. Use HTTP URIs so people can look up those names




3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards - RDF




3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards - RDF

4. Include links to other URIs, so that they can discover more

Tim Berners-Lee - 2006


@Fascinatingpics

@Fascinatingpics

@Fascinatingpics

@Fascinatingpics


Linked Data


• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions

Linked Data


• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions• Embedded RDFa

Linked Data


• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions• Embedded RDFa• Links to: Dewey, LCSH

LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST

Linked Data



LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST• License: ODC-BY

Linked Data



LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST• License: ODC-BY• Experimental - June 2012

Linked Data


Linked Data• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions• Embedded RDFa• Links to: Dewey, LCSH


Download file• Most widely held works

(250+ holdings)

• 1.2 Million resources(80 million triples)

• Schema.org + Extensions• License: ODC-BY• August 2012


Linked Data• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions• Embedded RDFa• Links to: Dewey, LCSH


http://worldcat.org http://purl.oclc.org/dataset/WorldCat

http://purl.oclc.org/dataset/WorldCat

http://purl.oclc.org/dataset/WorldCat

is

good enough ?

is

good enough ?

• For library data exchange

is

good enough ?

• For library data exchange - No

is

good enough ?


• For sharing library data with the world

- No

is

good enough ?


• For sharing library data with the world

- No

- Almost

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

• Short lived group

• Libraries, Publishers, Consumers, System Vendors, Linked Data, Standards Bodies

• Library is only one focus



BIBFRAME

BIBFRAME

http://bibframe.org

It is the foundation for the future of bibliographic description that happens on, in,

and as part of the web and the networked world we live in.

bibliographic descriptionas part of the web

BIBFRAME

http://bibframe.org

bibliographic description as part of the web

@Fascinatingpics

bibliographic description as part of the web

?

@Fascinatingpics

bibliographic description

≈ complimentary ≈

as part of the web

@Fascinatingpics


Challenges for change


as part of the web

@Fascinatingpics


• Metadata for ‘items’



as part of the web

@Fascinatingpics



• Searching for ‘works’



as part of the web

@Fascinatingpics



• Searching for ‘works’

• Materials of all types - print / e / digital



as part of the web

@Fascinatingpics

Where do I start?

@Fascinatingpics

@Fascinatingpics

@Fascinatingpics

@Fascinatingpics

@Fascinatingpics

@Fascinatingpics

@Fascinatingpics

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Do I need to link to everywhere?


Do I need to link to everywhere?

Link to partnersand hubs

They will interlink

h"p://wallpapersfor.me/storm-‐beacon/

Be visibleOn the Web of Data

http://wallpapersfor.me/storm-beacon/








Light the way to your resources...



Stop Copying

Stop Copying

Start Linking

Be of the Webof Data

We are moving fromcataloguing

We are moving fromcataloguing

to

h"p://catalinkingEric Miller -‐ Zepheira


Linked Data




Linked Data Radical Change?





Radical Evolution!





Radical Evolution!




Linked DataRadical Change?

Richard WallisTechnology Evangelist@rjw

InetBib Berlin - 4th March 2013

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