Linked data and the web of data: for libraries?

Richard WallisTechnology Evangelist

http://consulting.talis.com

Linked Data and the Web of Data:

For Libraries?

.Tuesday, 15 November 11

Leading Semantic WebTechnology

Tuesday, 15 November 11

40 Year RichMetadata Heritage

Shared InnovationEthos

Library

•Catalog cards

Library

•Catalog cards

•Cooperative cataloguing

Library

•Catalog cards

•MARC

Library

•Catalog cards

•MARC

•Z39.50

Library

•Catalog cards

•MARC

•Z39.50

•OpenURL

Library

•Catalog cards

•MARC

•Z39.50

•OpenURL

•International standards

Library

•Catalog cards

•MARC

•Z39.50

•OpenURL

•International standards‘library’

Library

•Catalog cards

•MARC

•Z39.50

•OpenURL

•International standards‘library’ - sort of

Library

•Catalog cards

•MARC

•Z39.50

•OpenURL

•International

•Web.....

standards‘library’ - sort of

The Web

Javascript

Microformats RDFaJQuery

XML JSON

The Web

http URLHTML

The Web

HTML http URL

The Web

HTML http URL

Text text texttext text linktext. Text, texttext text, text.Text text - texttext - text text text.

Document

The Web

HTML http URL

Text text texttext text.Text: • link • linkText text, text.Text text - linktext - text text.

Document Document

The Web

HTML http URL

Document Document

The Web

HTML http URL

Document Document

http://example.com/page1

The Web

HTML http URL

Document Document

http://example.com/page1

The Web

http://example.com/page1 http://eg.co.uk/list

The Web

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leapkye/4407661949

The Web

PowerfulThe Web

©workhorse.com

Linking at it’s core

Powerful

LinkLink

The Web

WebThe

Semantic WebThe

Semantic

Flying Cars Technology

WebThe

Received a bad press

Linked Data

Linked DataBuilt on Semantic Web Standards

All about identifying and linking things

Identifying things

1969-059A

Identifying things

spacecraft/1969-059A

1969-059A

Identifying things

nasa.dataincubator.org/spacecraft/1969-059A

1969-059A

Identifying things

nasa.dataincubator.org/spacecraft/1969-059A

http://nasa.dataincubator.org/spacecraft/1969-059A

1969-059A

with URIs

Things have attributeshttp://nasa.dataincubator.org/spacecraft/1969-059A

28801.0kg

Columbia

28801.0kg

Columbia

Apollo 11 CSM

CSM-107

United States

Cape Canaveral

Saturn 5

.../1969-059A

http://nasa.dataincubator.org/spacecraft/1969-059A.../1969-059A

28801.0

Apollo 11 CSM⤵name

28801.0

Apollo 11 CSM⤵⤵name name

Columbia

⤵⤵mass

28801.0

launchhttp://nasa.dataincubator.org/spacecraft/1969-059A.../1969-059A

../launch/1969-059

Columbia

⤵⤵mass

28801.0

launch⤵

../launch/1969-059

Columbia

16 July 1969

⤵⤵mass

28801.0

launch⤵

⤵site

../launch/1969-059

Cape Canaveral

Columbia

16 July 1969

⤵⤵mass

28801.0

launch⤵

⤵site

⤵lat

../launch/1969-059

Cape Canaveral

Columbia

16 July 1969

N 28° 27' 31''

⤵⤵mass

28801.0

launch⤵

⤵site

W 80° 31' 59''

⤵⤵lat

../launch/1969-059

Cape Canaveral

Columbia

16 July 1969

N 28° 27' 31''

⤵⤵mass

28801.0

launch⤵

⤵site<../1969-059A> mass 28801.0 .<../1969-059A> name “Apollo 11 CSM” .<../1969-059A> name “Columbia” .<../1969-059A> launch <../launch/1969-059> .<../launch/1969-059> date 1969-07-16 .<../launch/1969-059> site <..site/capecanaveral> .<..site/capecanaveral> lat “N 28° 27' 31''” .<..site/capecanaveral> long “W 80° 31' 59''” . W 80° 31' 59''

⤵⤵lat

../launch/1969-059

Cape Canaveral

Columbia

16 July 1969

N 28° 27' 31''

⤵⤵mass

28801.0

launch⤵

⤵site<../1969-059A> mass 28801.0 .<../1969-059A> name “Apollo 11 CSM” .<../1969-059A> name “Columbia” .<../1969-059A> launch <../launch/1969-059> .<../launch/1969-059> date 1969-07-16 .<../launch/1969-059> site <..site/capecanaveral> .<..site/capecanaveral> lat “N 28° 27' 31''” .<..site/capecanaveral> long “W 80° 31' 59''” .

W 80° 31' 59''

⤵⤵lat

../launch/1969-059

Cape Canaveral

Columbia

16 July 1969

N 28° 27' 31''

RDF Triple

Thing attribute value

property

RDF Triple

Thing value

property

RDF Triple

Thing value

Thing property Thing

property

RDF Triple

Thing value

../person/A

property

RDF Triple

Thing value

../person/A hasParent

property

RDF Triple

Thing value

../person/B../person/A hasParent

property

RDF Triple

Thing value

../person/B

property

RDF Triple

Thing value

../person/B

name../person/B

property

“Eric”

RDF Triple

Thing value

../person/B

name../person/B

property

“Eric”

RDF Triple

Thing value

../person/B

name../person/B

Merging

property

“Eric”

RDF Triple

Thing value

name../person/B../person/A hasParent

Merging

RDF TripleMerging

The same identifier in a different place is still identifying the same thing

Linked Data Principles

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

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

Tim Berners-Lee - 2006

http://bbc.co.uk/nature/species/Mallard

http://bbc.co.uk/nature/species/Mallard SameAs

http://bbc.co.uk/nature/species/Mallard http://dbpedia.org/resource/MallardSameAs

http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl/sameAs

primaryTopic http://blx1.bto.org/birdfacts/../bob1860.htm

depiction http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/. mallard_1.jpg

primaryTopic http://blx1.bto.org/birdfacts/../bob1860.htm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jolieodell/4540783805

Publication Events

Author

Series

Subject

Identifiers

Miscellaneous literals

British Library Data Model@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .@prefix isbd: <http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/elements/> .@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .@prefix bibo: <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> .@prefix rda: <http://RDVocab.info/ElementsGr2/> .@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .@prefix blt: <http://data.bl.uk/schema/bibliographic#> .@prefix bio: <http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> .@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> .@prefix org: <http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> .@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> .@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .

Tim Hodson - tim.hodson@talis.comCorine Deliot - Corine.Deliot@bl.ukAlan Danskin - Alan.Danskin@bl.uk Heather Rosie - Heather.Rosie@bl.ukJan Ashton - Jan.Ashton@bl.uk

dct:description

V.1.0012th July 2011

dct:isPartOf

Resource BL URI

dct:BibliographicResource

bibo:Book

Lexvo URI

dct:language

PublicationEventBL URI

blt:publication

blt:PublicationEvent

event:Event

rdfs:subClassOf

PlaceBL URI

MARC country code URI

rdfs:labelAgent

BL URI

foaf:Agentdcterms:Agent

rdfs:labelgeo:SpatialThing

http://r.d.g/id/year/xxxx

Person-as-ConceptBL URI dct:subject

rdfs:label

Topic LCSHBL URI

dct:subject

skos:notation

Skos:Concept

GeoNames URI

foaf:focus

rdfs:label

foaf:focus

CalendarYear

skos:broader

LCSH URI if available

Organization-as-ConceptBL URI

Family-as-ConceptBL URI

id.loc.gov URI for scheme

Family-as-AgentBL URI

rdfs:label

blt:bnbbibo:isbn10 bibo:isbn13

dct:abstract

dct:tableOfContents

foaf:focus

dct:subject

skos:inScheme

owl:sameAs

rdfs:label

skos:inScheme

rdfs:label

dct:spatial

dct:hasPart

dct:subject

Place-as-ConceptBL URI

Place-as-ThingBL URI

foaf:focus

rdfs:labelowl:sameAs

event:time

event:agent

event:place

rdfs:label

dct:titleisbd:P1008(edition statement) dct:alternative

Person-as-Agent BL URI foaf:Agent

dct:Agentfoaf:Person

rdfs:label

foaf:name

foaf:family_name

Birth BL URI

Death BL URI

rda:periodOfActivityOfThePerson

bio:Birth

bio:Death a

VIAF URI if available

owl:sameAs

bio:date

bio:eventbio:event

foaf:givenname

Organization-as-Agent BL URI

foaf:Agentdct:Agent

foaf:Organizationorg:Organization

rdfs:label[foaf:name]

dct:contributor

dct:creator

dct:contributor

dct:creator

isbd:P1073(note on language)

rdfs:label

dct:subject

foaf:focus

Dewey BL URI

Dewey Info URI

Dewey Info URI for scheme

rdfs:subClassOf

isbd:P1042(content note)

isbd:P1053(extent)

MARC language code URI

foaf:focus

geo:SpatialThingdct:Location

blt:OrganizationConcept a

rdfs:subClassOf

skos:inScheme

rdfs:subClassOf

skos:inScheme

ardfs:subClassOf

SeriesBL URI

bibo:Series

rdfs:label

bibo:issn

blt:PlaceConcept

blt:TopicLCSH

blt:TopicDDC

blt:FamilyConcept

blt:PersonConcept

rdfs:subClassOf

A Class

A Literal

An InstanceExternal

rdfs:label

Publication Events

Author

Series

Subject

Identifiers

dct:description

V.1.0012th July 2011

dct:isPartOf

Resource BL URI

bibo:Book

Lexvo URI

dct:language

blt:publication

event:Event

rdfs:subClassOf

PlaceBL URI

rdfs:labelAgent

BL URI

rdfs:label

Topic LCSHBL URI

dct:subject

skos:notation

Skos:Concept

GeoNames URI

foaf:focus

rdfs:label

foaf:focus

CalendarYear

skos:broader

rdfs:label

dct:abstract

dct:tableOfContents

foaf:focus

dct:subject

skos:inScheme

owl:sameAs

rdfs:label

skos:inScheme

rdfs:label

dct:spatial

dct:hasPart

dct:subject

foaf:focus

event:time

event:agent

event:place

rdfs:label

foaf:name

foaf:family_name

Birth BL URI

Death BL URI

bio:Birth

bio:Death a

owl:sameAs

bio:date

bio:eventbio:event

foaf:givenname

foaf:Agentdct:Agent

dct:contributor

dct:creator

dct:contributor

dct:creator

rdfs:label

dct:subject

foaf:focus

Dewey BL URI

Dewey Info URI

rdfs:subClassOf

isbd:P1053(extent)

foaf:focus

rdfs:subClassOf

skos:inScheme

rdfs:subClassOf

skos:inScheme

ardfs:subClassOf

SeriesBL URI

bibo:Series

rdfs:label

bibo:issn

blt:PlaceConcept

blt:TopicLCSH

blt:TopicDDC

blt:FamilyConcept

blt:PersonConcept

rdfs:subClassOf

A Class

A Literal

An InstanceExternal

rdfs:label

http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/pdfs/datamodelv1_01.pdf

Publication Events

Author

Series

Subject

Identifiers

dct:description

V.1.0012th July 2011

dct:isPartOf

Resource BL URI

bibo:Book

Lexvo URI

dct:language

blt:publication

event:Event

rdfs:subClassOf

PlaceBL URI

rdfs:labelAgent

BL URI

rdfs:label

Topic LCSHBL URI

dct:subject

skos:notation

Skos:Concept

GeoNames URI

foaf:focus

rdfs:label

foaf:focus

CalendarYear

skos:broader

rdfs:label

dct:abstract

dct:tableOfContents

foaf:focus

dct:subject

skos:inScheme

owl:sameAs

rdfs:label

skos:inScheme

rdfs:label

dct:spatial

dct:hasPart

dct:subject

foaf:focus

event:time

event:agent

event:place

rdfs:label

foaf:name

foaf:family_name

Birth BL URI

Death BL URI

bio:Birth

bio:Death a

owl:sameAs

bio:date

bio:eventbio:event

foaf:givenname

foaf:Agentdct:Agent

dct:contributor

dct:creator

dct:contributor

dct:creator

rdfs:label

dct:subject

foaf:focus

Dewey BL URI

Dewey Info URI

rdfs:subClassOf

isbd:P1053(extent)

foaf:focus

rdfs:subClassOf

skos:inScheme

rdfs:subClassOf

skos:inScheme

ardfs:subClassOf

SeriesBL URI

bibo:Series

rdfs:label

bibo:issn

blt:PlaceConcept

blt:TopicLCSH

blt:TopicDDC

blt:FamilyConcept

blt:PersonConcept

rdfs:subClassOf

A Class

A Literal

An InstanceExternal

rdfs:label

Resource BL URI

bibo:Book

Lexvo URI

dct:language

blt:publication

aPlaceBL URI

rdfs:labelAgent

BL URI

dct:subject

GeoNames URI

rdfs:label

foaf:focus

CalendarYear

-as-Concept

Family-as-Agent

blt:bnbbibo:isbn10

foaf:focus

dct:hasPart

dct:subject

event:time

event:agent

event:place

rdfs:label

Person-as-Agent BL URI

rdfs:label

foaf:name

foaf:family_name

Birth BL URI

Death BL URI

bio:Birth

bio:Death a

owl:sameAs

bio:date

bio:eventbio:event

foaf:givenname

foaf:Agentdct:Agent

dct:contributor

dct:creator

dct:contributor

dct:creator

dct:subject

foaf:focus

Publication EventsSeriesBritish Library Data Model

@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .@prefix isbd: <http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/elements/> .@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .@prefix bibo: <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> .@prefix rda: <http://RDVocab.info/ElementsGr2/> .@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .@prefix blt: <http://data.bl.uk/schema/bibliographic#> .@prefix bio: <http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> .@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> .@prefix org: <http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> .@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> .@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .

dct:isPartOf

Resource BL URI

bibo:Book

geo:SpatialThing

rdfs:label

Topic LCSHBL URI

dct:subject

Skos:Concept

GeoNames URI

foaf:focus

rdfs:label

foaf:focus

CalendarYear

aafoaf:focus

owl:sameAs

rdfs:label

skos:inScheme

rdfs:label

dct:hasPart

event:place

dct:subject

rdfs:subClassOf

skos:inScheme

ardfs:subClassOf

SeriesBL URI

bibo:Series

rdfs:label

bibo:issn

blt:TopicLCSH

blt:PersonConcept

rdfs:subClassOf

http://consulting.talis.com/blTuesday, 15 November 11

http://linkeddata.org/Tuesday, 15 November 11

The new bibliographic framework project will be focused on the Web environment, Linked Data principles and mechanisms, and the Resource

Description Framework (RDF) as a basic data model.

MARC is Dead! - RDA made irrelevant!

MARC is Dead! - RDA made irrelevant!MARC

www.classicfilmschool.com

MARC will take a long time to die!

•Library Systems are MARC based

•Libraries are full of MARC records

•A great source of rich data

RDA•One of the Linked Data Vocabularies

MARC ➟ Transform/Link/Enrich ➟ Linked Data

RDA•One of the Linked Data Vocabularies

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vox_efx/3652490837

Thinka little different

StopCreating Records

Person

⤵⤵ C S Lewis

⤵ ⤵ Silver Chairtype

creator name

StartLinking Things

http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardwallis/1768007630

Where are we going?

Where are we going?Towards a Web of Data

A Web of Open/Commercial/Enterprise Data

A Web of Pages/Concepts/Descriptions/..

A Web of Things

Richard WallisTechnology Evangelist

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For Libraries?

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