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Providing Semantic and Bibliographic Data for

Library Discovery

Cathy Dolbear

Senior Link Architect, Data Strategy

Oxford University Press

Semantic and Bibliographic Data for Library Discovery / Cathy Dolbear 16th October 2015

Overview

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• Introduction to OUP

• Our relationship with libraries as a publisher

• Industry trends for publication and delivery of metadata

• Semantic versus Bibliographic Metadata

• Where next?


Introduction to OUP

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Meet the Press…


How library users find our content

4 Semantic and Bibliographic Data for Library Discovery / Cathy Dolbear 16th October 2015

search engines, specialised databases

Academic

Catalogue

(print +

online)

Journals

Online

Product

s Biblio-graphic

OUP

Other publishers

Semantic

(“authorities”)

Library

Management

System

User

Discovery

Services

Our relationship with libraries

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• Customers

– but not users

– make purchasing decisions based on metadata-driven usage statistics

• Discovery portals

– Discovery services (ProQuest, ExLibris, OCLC etc) => XML metadata feeds

• But…

– Main referrers are search engines (Google/Scholar, Bing, Yahoo!) => GS

markup/RDFa/JSON-LD

– Users arrive via direct links (NIH PubMed,

escardio) => entity recognition


Customers; Discovery Portals

Discovery data

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• Entry Referrers for a particular university consortium


Many ways to slice the pie

How should we provide our metadata?

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Industry trends for publication and delivery

• “Push” - direct metadata deliveries

• “Pull” – metadata publishing

– Linked Data Publishing platform?

– .

– .U


OxMetaML

OAI-PMH:

MARC 21

Dublin Core

JSON-LD

• Publishers can’t just choose a single vocabulary/format

– Too many differing requirements/options

– Transform on delivery as required

• Simplify our internal metadata format

– Bibliographic & semantic information only

– Removing processing instructions

– Clear semantics makes linking/integration easier

– More likely we can publish our metadata without transformation

Decentralised web world: no single “standard” vocabulary

How should we provide our metadata?

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Industry trends for publication and delivery


What information do we provide?

Bibliographic versus Semantic metadata

• Bibliographic information (author, title, ISBN etc)

• Semantic or contextual information - what the document is

about (academic subject, person, organisation etc)

Which vocabularies/ontologies?

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so many standards to choose from…

• Semantic data integration is not straightforward


Why didn’t you use …?

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[insert name of favourite vocabulary here]



frbr:

Corporate

Body

frbr:

Person

frbr:Object

Why didn’t you use …?

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[insert name of favourite vocabulary here]



frbr:

Work

Metadata publishing

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Embedded markup in HTML

• Google Scholar meta-tags

– HighWire Press/PRISM tagged bibliographic data

– Full text indexed (unlike Google)

• RDFa (RDF in attributes)

– Currently published on our non-journals online products

– Using schema.org vocabulary


─ RDFa distillers can scrape the

metadata

─ Only in HTML header => not fully

recognised by Google

Metadata publishing

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JSON-LD

• Our RDFa not fully recognised by Google

– at the document, not object level

• Still want structured markup

– Improves click-through rate (30% reported by BestBuy)

– Search results more eye-catching as rich snippets

– Increases traffic (BBC reported 20%)

– Content indexed better

• Developing solution using JSON-LD


JSON-LD

Metadata publishing

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Java Script Object Notation for Linked Data


<script type="application/ld+json">

{

"@context": "http://schema.org",

"@type": “MedicalScholarlyArticle",

“publicationType: “V03.200” ,

“doi": "10.1093/brain/awl303”,

“author": {

“@type”: “Person”,

“affiliation”: “University of Wurzburg, Department of Neuroradiology, Wurzburg”,

“name”: “Andreas J Bartsch“

},

“keywords”: “alcoholism, morphometry, MR spectroscopy, SIENA, voxelwise SIENA statistics”,

“about": {

"@type": "MedicalCondition",

"name": “Alcoholism”,

"code": {

"@id": "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/C25.775.100.250",

"@type": "MedicalCode",

"code": "C25.775.100.250",

"codingSystem": "MeSH"

},

}

}

</script>

Metadata publishing

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{




“doi": "10.1093/brain/awl303”,

“author": {




},


“about": {



"code": {



"code": "C25.775.100.250",


},

}

}

</script>



Metadata publishing

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{




“doi": "10.1093/brain/awl303”,

“author": {




},


“about": {



"code": {



"code": "C25.775.100.250",


},

}

}

</script>


“doi": "10.1093/brain/awl303”,

Metadata publishing

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{




“doi": "10.1093/brain/awl303”,

“author": {




},


“about": {



"code": {



"code": "C25.775.100.250",


},

}

}

</script>

“author": {


“affiliation”: “University of Wurzburg”,


},

Metadata publishing

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{




“doi": "10.1093/brain/awl303”,

“author": {




},


“about": {



"code": {



"code": "C25.775.100.250",


},

}

}

</script>

“about": {



"code": {…}

}

Entity recognition

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• Wikidata have aligned Dictionary of National Biography people

to VIAF

• Semantic enrichment programme underway, starting with

medical entities – tagged with UMLS codes


in-line content markup

Where next?

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Mainstream consumption of bibliographic linked data

• Publisher-supplied metadata

– Simple, clean semantic and bibliographic data model

– Output to multiple standards/formats in the interim

– Increase tagging of our content/ entity linking

– Providing semantic disambiguation

• Requirements mainly driven by web search engines so far

• If we publish linked data, will it be incorporated into library

search and indexing systems?


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Any Questions?

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