Linked Data and OCLC

Richard Wallis

Technology Evangelist

OCLC@rjw

@Fascinatingpics

The world’s libraries. Connected.

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

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

Download file• Most widely held works

(250+ holdings)

• 1.2 Million resources(80 million triples)

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

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

DATA & FORMAT

REFRESH IMMINENT

good enough ?

• For library data exchange

good enough ?

• For library data exchange - No

good enough ?

• For sharing library data with the world

good enough ?

• For sharing library data with the world

- 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

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

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bibliographic description as part of the web

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bibliographic description

≈ complimentary ≈

as part of the web

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Challenges for change

as part of the web

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• Metadata for ‘items’

as part of the web

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• Searching for ‘works’

as part of the web

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• Searching for ‘works’

• Materials of all types - print / e / digital

as part of the web

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Linked Data:

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Linked Data:“... great ideas, but with no visible support?”

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Where do I start?

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h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/fukagawa/2488073607/

Do I need to link to everywhere?

h"p://www.flickr.com/photos/fukagawa/2488073607/

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

Light the way to your resources...

DreamWorks Pictures/Twentieth Century FoxLincolnMovieUK

Stop Copying

Start Linking

Be of the Webof Data

We are moving fromcataloguing

h"p://catalinkingEric Miller -‐ Zepheira

Happening in a hurry?

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Years not decades

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The Web will progress without us

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Opportunity to reach for together

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Richard Wallis

Technology Evangelist

OCLC@rjw

Linked Data and OCLC

Linked Data and OCLC

Technology

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Walk Before You Run - OCLC · Walk Before You Run Prerequisites to Linked Data Kenning Arlitsch. Dean of the Library. @kenning_msu . Linked Data applications will not matter if search

Open | Linked | Open Linked data

Linked Data initiatives at OCLC · OCLC Linked Data Research There are quite many original OCLC research papers. changing resource description workflows “We believe that linked

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LD4L OCLC Data Strategy

Session: OCLC Cataloging News...17 June 2020. Creating infrastructure for library linked data. John Chapman. Senior Product Manager. Metadata Strategy & Operations. Chelsea Dalgord