Resetting the Web's Information Landscape - Growing Library Visibility with Linked Data

Resetting the Web’s Information LandscapeGrowing Library Visibility with Linked Data

Public Library Association April 7, 2016

Eric Miller [email protected]

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A Zepheira Collaboration

Network Visible Libraries, Linked TogetherConnecting and Illuminating Libraries

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Zepheira’s Perspectives on Leadership and Practice Libraries, Web, Data & Technology

Standards Data and Tech Strategies

Vocabularies

Projects Activities Large Scale Projects

23,000,000

= Salt Lake County Library Annual Catalog Search Traffic 2014 Annual Report

or

= 9.58 minutes on Google

The Web is better when libraries participate

“We just don’t see it”

The Web Values

• Geography / Location

• Personalization

• Scarcity / Uniqueness

Title: The geographic distribution of United States public libraries : An analysis of locations and service areas Author: Francis P. Donnelly Journal: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JOLIS) Year: 2014, Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 110-129 ISSN: 0961-0006 DOI: 10.1177/0961000612470276 Publisher: Sage

Spoiler alert: Libraries have the opportunity to change the Web and the

way users learn but we have to show up to the party

A Talk in 3 Parts

Act 1 Linked Data Essentials

Most of the Web is…

• Pages and links

• Designed for direct human consumption

• Simple linking (“points at”)

• Data is hidden

A significant gap between what browsers and humans see

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• Human readable

• Machine readable

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The Web is moving from a web of documents

to a Web of data

Begins with Linked Data

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“a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data

NOTE: This applies both externally on the Web and internally within systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data

RDF

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Linked Data becomes useful when we have

Common Accessible Actionable

How is this evolving the Web?

Emerging Web focuses on ANSWERS using Data, Resources, Vocabulary and Links

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Next Generation Search is rooted in Questions, Geography, Personalization

and Relationships

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How does the Web “see” Libraries?

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Libraries = Community BusinessesLocation, photos, hours, reviews, social, events

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And this is a ‘best case’ scenario

Imagine an information landscape that has learned about Libraries,

their content, and services

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I’m looking for some good new mysteries I can pick up before I head out for my trip later this week?

Let me check on some options, but

first - Who are some of your

favorite authors?

What would it take for Libraries to be part of the conversation?

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Geographic

Content

Readers Advisory

Availability

Personalization

Access Control

Act 2 Libraries, Linked Data and the Web

Library Description and Capacity

Systems and Services

Content and Collections

A library’s story is multifaceted and serves many audiences

Libraries aren’t “speaking” in a way the Web understands

We have a wealth of content and resources locked behind legacy, closed technology systems and niche vocabularies

MARC as “things” not “strings”

Libraries have a rich tradition of Descriptive Vocabularies and Authorities

“BIBFRAME is the resource for defining web accessible

bibliographic data for more effective sharing, navigation and

collaboration. It is a simple, replicable linked data pattern.”

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BIBFRAME Baseline “Resources”

Instance

Agent

Concept

CopyrightEvent

Family

Form

Meeting

Organization

Temporal

ProviderEvent

Works

Persons

Collection

Place

Topic

Series

Just the beginning. BIBFRAME is inherently extensible and is moving beyond MARC & catalogs.

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Act 3 Putting it all together

Seeding the Web with Library Data

Exploring Together

• Strategic connection & importance • Community engagement • Libraries are more than a catalog

• Linked Data = linking first • Speak for understanding & action • Stop waiting, learn by iterating

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TransformLink

ConsumePublishLink

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Catalog Export of approximately 445,000 MARC Records

Instance (445,007)

Agent (54,232)

Concept (199,657)

CopyrightEvent (1,029)

Family (291)

Form (1,493)

Meeting (203)

Organization (21,287)

Temporal (1,268)

ProviderEvent (116,587)

Works (369,239)

Persons (184,688)

Collection (33,954)

Place (17,951)

Topic (32,698)

Series (38,913)

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Libraries Publish Linked Data through Local Link Graphs

Each “Resource” is published and linked in the Library’s Local Link Graph pages.

The data is designed to to bring together disparate resources, surface relationships and provide entry paths for the Web into what’s available in the library.

Transformed Library Data Can Teach the Web

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Instance (445,007)

Meeting (203)

Series (38,913)

Agent (54,232)

Concept (199,657)


Family (291)

Form (1,493)


Temporal (1,268)


Works (369,239)

Persons (184,688)

Collection (33,954)

Place (17,951)

Topic (32,698)

445,007 Catalog “Records” become millions of Link Graph Data Resources

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Instance (445,007)

Meeting (203)

Series (38,913)

Agent (54,232)

Concept (199,657)


Family (291)

Form (1,493)


Temporal (1,268)


Works (369,239)

Persons (184,688)

Collection (33,954)

Place (17,951)

Topic (32,698)

445,007 Catalog “Records” become millions of Link Graph Data Resources

Opportunities for “Happiness”

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A Person Resource doesn’t yet have a Catalog “page”, but look at what your data can teach the Web…

677,443Works (369,239)

Persons (184,688)

Collection (33,954)

Place (17,951)

Topic (32,698)

Series (38,913)

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Contributor of

Creator of

Focus of Gaimen, Neil | Handbooks | Characters …

Conservator of

Narrator of

Writer of Introduction of

+24 more

+100more

All connections link to library resources

Early visibility success• Surfacing Catalog Resources • Special Collection Connections • Densely Connected Local Link Graph

pages • Mobile Search • Engagement with Web and Library partners • Statewide and Geo-specific pilot projects

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“our genealogy librarians just had a call from New York to request a particular chapter of a

book that we had that she had found on Google!”

- Dallas Public Library


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Each library has a Local Link Graph domain activated

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All Local Link Graphs:

1. Consistent Vocabulary

2. Current Content

3. Local identity and story


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The Library.Link Network is:

• Large-scale • Inclusive • Locally focused • Globally

deployed • Designed for

high volume harvesting


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Learning Together & Impact Through Action

• Over 1000 Library Locations – Community connections & Geo-density matter

• Millions of Items Made Visible – Typical catalogs transform & publish in less than an hour

• Billions of – Resources described – Connections created – Opportunities to reach new and current users re-

enforcing relevance

Telling the whole story requires Collaboration

Local SystemSpecial Collections

& Archives

Libraries & Location Information

Transformation &Publishing

Managed InfrastructureEnterprise Architecture

Enriched ContentEngagement

Events

Weaving the best of libraries and the Web together

• This isn’t about gaming a system • It’s not about optimizing to any one service • It’s about speaking as an industry in a way the

Web understands • Leveraging the power of our community • And benefiting from what all this enables

"I believe everyone benefits from the visibility of libraries and their content on the Web."

Eric Miller [email protected]

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