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Feb 19, 2014. Mike Teets VP Innovation OCLC. Managing Library Collections as a Graph. Giving Voice to Content: A New Generation of Products and Services. What is this angle called?. By 2010…. A researcher can no longer read just the article titles for advancements in their field of study.
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Feb 19, 2014 Mike Teets VP Innovation OCLC Managing Library Collections as a Graph Giving Voice to Content: A New Generation of Products and Services
By 2010… A researcher can no longer read just the article titles for advancements in their field of study
Evolution of Metadata Management and Library Catalogs 100’s-to-trillions+ ratio of data curatorsto audience 100’s-to-billons 100’s-to-millions 10’s-to-1000’s 1-to-10’s Web of Data Scribe Card Catalog OPAC Web
Graph of Entities People Places Works Organizations Events
A Point on a Graph Information Resource Legend Work Organization Person Place Event A Physical Mural Describes Described By Has Depiction A Physical Photograph A JPEG Image Depicts Encoded By Encodes
Another Entry Point to the Graph A Creative Work Legend Work Organization Person Place Event Realization An Edition Realization of Embodiment A Physical Book A Physical Photograph Embodiment Of Has Part Is Part
Content as a Graph A Physical Photograph Location Owned Organization Lat/Long Created Captured Photographer Timestamp
Audience Question Does your organization support entity views of your data? • No, we do not want our data presented as entities • We are not doing it but expect others to extract and relate entities in our databases. • We are actively considering projects • We currently publish entity views
Semantic Web Obituaries… • Yahoo Researcher Declares Semantic Web Dead • What does the death of the semantic web mean for publishers? • Autopsy: the death of Semantic Web Technologies • Three reasons why the Semantic Web has failed
July 2010 Google acquires Metaweb Sir Tim Berners-Lee 1999 Semantic Web “dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers.”
Thendefine relationships ...
OCLC Managed Data as a TripleStore Entire Graph 1–5 Trillion WorldCat + Articles 100–200 Billion WorldCat Catalog 31 Billion Current range of Largest Triple Stores VIAF 2 Billion Dewey 300 Million ArchiveGrid 248 Million