Making Library Collections Discoverable on the Web Axel Kaschte
Product Strategy Director EMEA OCLC 04. July, 2015 ICSTI Workshops
Hannover
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Globalization
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Explain: Libraries shift their focus from collections on the
shelf to the services they offer. Pressure on collection budgets.
Trends Trend 2: Search for Distinctiveness Explain: As licensed
content is available in commodity collections, academic libraries
strive to declare their distinctiveness. Trend 3: Be Found on the
Web Explain: As users search on the web, libraries want their
commodity and distinctive collections to be found on the web.
Improve Library Workflows Help Libraries Be Found on the Web Trend
1: Shift from collections to services
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Landscape: Vision for the Ecosystem "DBpediaLogo" by The
DBpedia Team Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia
Commons
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THE LIBRARY KNOWLEDGE GRAPH The Library Data Revolution
personplace objectconcept organizationwork
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Umberto Eco Born: 5 January 1932 Alessandria, Italy Italian
semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist.
Works Subjects Quotes Find Umberto Eco works at: Libraries near me
| Online Retailers Semiotics | Religions | Thought and Thinking
ArtPhilosophy | Foucaults Pendulum | Vodou The real hero is always
a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like
everybody else.
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Library data stored as entities personplace objectconcept
organizationwork author subject item availability
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The library knowledge graph A graph of relationships
personplace objectconcept organizationwork
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The library knowledge graph Works personplace objectconcept
organizationwork
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The library knowledge graph Putting entities in library
workflows Cataloging ILL and AnalyticsCataloging
DiscoveryIntegration with the web
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ENTITIES AND LIBRARY WORKFLOWS The Library Data Revolution
personplace objectconcept organizationwork
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Entities and library workflows Discovery The Name of the Rose
Summary: The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey
are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives
to investigate. His delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by
seven bizarre deaths that take place in seven days and nights of
apocalyptic terror. Subjects Borrowing Options eBooks | Printed
Books | Audio Books Other Languages Monastic libraries -- Italy
Fiction | Semiotics -- Fiction
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Entities and library workflows Cataloging Improve data quality
Link to authoritative sources A new approach to cataloging Point
and click cataloging Managing entities instead of managing records
Consistent with RDA
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Entities and library workflows Web exposure Be found on the web
Connect your users to unique content What the web requires for web
exposure Aggregation Familiar structures A Network of Links Entity
Identifiers
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WHATS HAPPENING The Library Data Revolution personplace
objectconcept organizationwork
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15% of Web use Schema.org markup!
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Sponsored by The Library of Congress
http://www.bibframe.org
http://www.BiblioGraph.net OCLCs Approach to Data Modeling
Model things of interest to the web. Make those things available
via structures familiar to the web. Improve library workflows.
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ENTITIES AND WORLDCAT The Library Data Revolution personplace
objectconcept organizationwork
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197+ million Work descriptions and URIs Schema.org +
BiblioGraph.net RDF Data formats RDF/XML, Turtle, Triples, JSON-LD
Links to WorldCat manifestations Links to Dewey, LCSH, LCNAF, VIAF,
FAST Open Data license via Linked Data Explorer 2015: Discovery
API, Metadata API Released April 2014 http://www.oclc.org/data The
Work Entity
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98+ million Person descriptions and URIs Person entities with
authority: 20.2 million Person entities without authority: 78.3
million Schema.org + BiblioGraph.net Harvested from WorldCat data
and enriched from other hubs RDF Data formats RDF/XML, Turtle,
Triples, JSON-LD Links to WorldCat Works. Added links from WC
Works. Open Data license via Linked Data Explorer 2015: Linked Data
Explorer, Discovery API http://www.oclc.org/data The Person
Entity
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VIAF, ISNI, FAST Publish Linked Data WorldCat.org Linked Data
Release using Schema.org Internal agreement on data strategy
Evangelism Research & Design with Data Architecture Group Data
mining of WorldCat resources WorldCat Works Released 2012 2014
Application Integration WorldCat Discovery Analytics Discovery API
Cataloging More Entities Released Person Manifestation Organization
Concept New Products Continuing Evangelism New Services Continuing
Innovation 2013 OCLC Entity- Based Data Strategy
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Metadata Globalization Global Library Network Global
Information Network
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Explain: Libraries shift their focus from collections on the
shelf to the services they offer. Pressure on collection budgets.
Current Challenges in Libraries # 2: Search for Distinctiveness
Explain: As licensed content is available in commodity collections,
academic libraries strive to declare their distinctiveness. Rise of
OA. # 3: Be Found on the Web Explain: As users search on the web,
libraries want their commodity and distinctive collections to be
found on the web. # 1: Shift from collections to services
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Lifecycle of scholarly communication Publish Write Read Study /
Research Libraries WEB of data Students Researchers Librarians
Managers
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Researchers Librarians Homework Managers
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Researchers Librarians Managers Homework As a librarian I would
like to ____ so that ___. As a researcher I would like to ____ so
that ___. As a director I would like to ____ so that ___.
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As librarian, I want high quality data from around the world so
that I can support my universitys international business school.
Examples: Identifying the Problems to Solve # 2: Search for
Distinctiveness As a researcher, I want to identify original
sources so that I can produce original findings in my grant funded
research project. # 3: Be Found on the Web As a library director, I
want to show that my library has global relevance and a durable
future so that I can prove value to my skeptical chancellor.
Improve Library Workflows Help Libraries Be Found on the Web # 1:
Shift from collections to services
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Making Library Collections Discoverable on the Web Ted Fons,
OCLC [email protected]