Linked  Data  in  Libraries  Richard  Wallis  

Technology  Evangelist  @rjw  

Many great LD Projects

So today …..

Bri6sh  Library  

German  Na6onal  Library  

French  Na6onal  Library  

Swedish  Na6onal  Library  

Open  Linked  Data  -­‐  Silos  Behind  A  Vocabulary  Barrier  

Library  Linked  Data  

A  general  purpose  vocabulary  for  describing  things  on  the  web  

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•  Linked  Data    •  Embedded  in  HTML  •  RDFa,  Microdata,  JSON-­‐LD  •  Descrip6ve  data  •  Ac6ve  links  

"15%  of  the  Web"  

Why  Catalog?  So  we  can  find  things  

Why  Share  on  the  Web?  

So  today’s  users  can  find  our  things  

Where  are  our  users?  

En6ty  Based  Data    on  the  Web    

Günter  Grass Born:  16  October  1927  Gdańsk,  Poland  

German  novelist,  poet,  playwright,  illustrator,  graphic  ar6st,  sculptor  and  recipient  of  the  1999  Nobel  Prize  in  Literature.    

Works  

Subjects  

Quotes  

Find  Günter  Grass  works  at:  Libraries  near  me  |  Online  Retailers  

Germany  |  German  literature  |  Historical  fic6on  War  stories  |  Black  humor  |  Fantasy  

“Even  bad  books  are  books  and  therefore  sacred.”—The  Tin  Drum  

Günter  Grass Born:  16  October  1927  Gdańsk,  Poland  

German  novelist,  poet,  playwright,  illustrator,  graphic  ar6st,  sculptor  and  recipient  of  the  1999  Nobel  Prize  in  Literature.    

Works  

Subjects  

Quotes  

Find  Günter  Grass  works  at:  Libraries  near  me  |  Online  Retailers  

Germany  |  German  literature  |  Historical  fic6on  War  stories  |  Black  humor  |  Fantasy  

“Even  bad  books  are  books  and  therefore  sacred.”—The  Tin  Drum  

MARC  RECORD  

Data  from  one  converted  record  does  not  an  en9ty  make  

Transforma6on  into  Linked  Data  is  just  a  beginning  …  •  Mine  and  analyse  the  aggregate  •  Iden6fy,  map,  merge  -­‐  evidence  based  •  Relate  to  external  sources  •  Establish  the  en66es  

Ge[ng  from  here  to  there  

En66es  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  inves6gate.  His  delicate  mission  is  suddenly  overshadowed  by  seven  bizarre  deaths  that  take  place  in  seven  days  and  nights  of  apocalyp6c  terror.    

Subjects  

Borrowing  OpPons  eBooks  |  Printed  Books  |  Audio  Books  

Other  Languages  

 

 

Monas6c  libraries  -­‐-­‐  Italy  –  Fic6on  |  Semio6cs  -­‐-­‐  Fic6on    

•  A  Technology  •  Standard  on  the  Web  –  RDF,  URIs,  Vocabularies  •  Iden6fying  and  Linking  resources  on  the  Web  •  Important  powerful  enabling  technology    •  But  only  a  technology…        for  the  systems  folks  to  worry  about  •  Real  benefits  flow  from:       En6ty  Based  Data  Architecture    

Powered  by  Linked  Data  

A  general  purpose  vocabulary  for  describing  things  on  the  web  

y  

•  Linked  Data    •  Embedded  in  HTML  •  RDFa,  Microdata,  JSON-­‐LD  •  Descrip6ve  data  •  Ac6ve  links  

OCLC  En6ty  Based  Data  Strategy  ü VIAF,  ISNI,  FAST  Publish  Linked  Data  ü WorldCat.org  Linked  Data  Release  –  using  Schema.org  

ü Data  mining  of  WorldCat  resources  

ü WorldCat  Works  Released  –  using  Schema.org  

ü Schema.org  added  to  VIAF  RDF  

ü WorldCat  Discovery  API  Returns  Schema.org  RDF  (Beta)  

 

2012    

2014  

Ø ApplicaPon  IntegraPon  Ø WorldCat  Discovery  

Ø Analy6cs  Ø Discovery  API  

Ø Cataloging  

 

 

2015  

Ø More  EnPPes  Released  

Ø Person  

Ø Organiza6on  Ø Event  

Ø Concept  

 

 

Ø New  Products                Ø ConPnuing  Evangelism  

 

Ø New  Services  Ø ConPnuing  InnovaPon  

 

2013  

2016  

2010  

Many great LD Projects

If  users  can't  discover  our  resources  

What  is  the  point?  

Linked  Data  in  Libraries  Richard  Wallis  

Technology  Evangelist  @rjw