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Linked Open Data stuff

Linked Open Data stuff. Gordon Dunsire Opening Library Linked Data to National Heritage: Perspectives on International Practice (2nd Linked Open Data Conference ), Edinburgh, 21 Sep 2012. Scope. Open, free Highly selective Wot I kno Kind of stable Lots of stuff is project-based …

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Linked Open Data stuff

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  1. Linked Open Data stuff Gordon Dunsire Opening Library Linked Data to National Heritage: Perspectives on International Practice (2nd Linked Open Data Conference), Edinburgh, 21 Sep 2012

  2. Scope • Open, free • Highly selective • Wot I kno • Kind of stable • Lots of stuff is project-based … • Links to other stuff

  3. General background, etc. • W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group • http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Main_Page#Reports • W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF) • http://www.w3.org/RDF/

  4. Datasets • British National Bibliography (BNB) - Linked Open Data • http://thedatahub.org/dataset/bluk-bnb • Linked Data Service of the German National Library • http://www.dnb.de/EN/Service/DigitaleDienste/LinkedData/linkeddata_node.html • LOCAH project • http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/ • DBPedia • http://dbpedia.org/About

  5. Element sets & value vocabularies • Open Metadata Registry • http://metadataregistry.org/ • FRBR/FRAD/FRSAD family • http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/ • ISBD • http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/ • RDA (in development) • http://rdvocab.info/ • Linked Open Vocabularies • http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/

  6. Value vocabularies • Library of Congress Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies • http://id.loc.gov/ • LCSH, LCC, LCNAF, MARC codes, etc. • Dewey Decimal Classification • http://dewey.info/ • Universal Decimal Classification summary • http://udcdata.info/

  7. Element sets • CIDOC Concept Reference Model • http://www.cidoc-crm.org/official_release_cidoc.html

  8. Tools • W3C Semantic Web tools • http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Tools • W3C LinkingOpenData • http://www.w3.org/wiki/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData • Open Metadata Registry (for vocabulary management) • http://metadataregistry.org/ • Knoodl • http://knoodl.com/ui/home.html

  9. Stuff I currently find useful • Notepad or other text editor • For non-XML serializations • W3C RDF Validation Service • http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/ • IsaViz: A Visual Authoring Tool for RDF • http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/ • Protégé source ontology editor • http://protege.stanford.edu/

  10. And so on …. • And so on …

  11. Issues • Global environment • Multilingual environment • Multi-domain environment • Archives, libraries, museums, … mappings! • Importance of branding (license, namespace) • Who said that? • Assessment of quality in a multi-voice environment • Trust • Importance of “authority” “control” • = Identity/Identifier management • Local vs global authorities (URIs) • “Record” is the old paradigm • Linked “statement” is the new • We all need to help each other (not alone any more) • We are all in this together, and so is our data

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