1. IFLA Helsinki 13 August 2012
#oclcldrt
Library Linked Data
Progress
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
OCLC
@rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.

22. Improved access
to
Library Data

23. Improved access
to
Library Data

24. Improved access
to
Library Data
to
Library Resources ?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaptainkobold/5592173390/

25. Library Standards
© 2012 TurboSquid

26. Library Standards
RDA FRBR
Dublin FRSAR
Core
EAD
MARC
MODS Onix
ISBD
FRAD
Bibo
MARCXML
© 2012 TurboSquid

27. Library Standards
RDA FRBR
Dublin FRSAR
Core
EAD
MARC
MODS Onix
ISBD
FRAD
Bibo
Bibliographic MARCXML
Babel
© 2012 TurboSquid

38. British Library Data Model
@prefix blt: <http://data.bl.uk/schema/bibliographic#> . Series Publication Events Key
event:Event
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
bibo:Series foaf:Agent External
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . dcterms:Agent An Instance Link
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> . MARC country code rdfs:subClassOf
A Class A Literal
@prefix isbd: <http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/elements/> . URI
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> . a
@prefix bibo: <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> . a geo:SpatialThing rdfs:label blt:PublicationEvent
@prefix rda: <http://RDVocab.info/ElementsGr2/> . rdfs:label foaf:focus
@prefix bio: <http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
bibo:issn
Author
@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> . rdfs:label
@prefix org: <http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> . Agent bio:Birth
Series GeoNames URI a
@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> . BL URI
BL URI
event:place
Place a
BL URI bio:Death a
LCSH URI if
available CalendarYear
event:agent bio:date
dct:isPartOf
event:place bio:date a
id.loc.gov URI for owl:sameAs a Birth BL URI
scheme rdfs:label
skos:inScheme
http://r.d.g/id/year/ Death BL URI
Topic LCSH dct:hasPart xxxx foaf:familyName
BL URI event:time PublicationEvent
a BL URI
blt:TopicLCSH
foaf:givenName
bio:event
rdfs:label
dct:BibliographicResource bio:event
rdfs:label foaf:name
rdfs:label bibo:Book
Person-as-Concept Person-as-Agent
rdfs:subClassOf a dct:subject BL URI
BL URI a foaf:Agent
a dct:creator dct:Agent
blt:PersonConcept blt:publication foaf:Person
skos:inScheme foaf:focus a
blt:hasCreated owl:sameAs
rdfs:subClassOf id.loc.gov URI for rdfs:label
scheme rda:periodOfActivityOfThePerson
rdfs:label dct:contributor
dct:subject
Skos:Concept blt:hasContributedTo
Family-as-Concept Resource VIAF URI if available
BL URI dct:subject
BL URI dct:creator
rdfs:subClassOf
a
blt:hasCreated Organization-as-Agent BL
skos:inScheme foaf:focus dct:subject URI
blt:FamilyConcept
dct:contributor
rdfs:label
blt:hasContributedTo
Family-as-Agent a
id.loc.gov URI for BL URI
scheme rdfs:label
[foaf:name]
rdfs:subClassOf foaf:Agent
dct:language dct:Agent
rdfs:label foaf:focus foaf:Organization
org:Organization
Organization-as-Concept Lexvo URI blt:bnb
blt:OrganizationConcept a dct:subject bibo:isbn10
BL URI bibo:isbn13
rdfs:label dct:subject dct:abstract
skos:inScheme foaf:focus
dct:tableOfContents
rdfs:subClassOf
isbd:P1008 dct:title
Identifiers
id.loc.gov URI for MARC language
code URI (edition statement)
scheme dct:spatial dct:alternative
blt:TopicDDC isbd:P1073 dct:description
a Dewey (note on language)
BL URI
skos:inScheme isbd:P1042
(content note)
Dewey Info URI for skos:broader isbd:P1053
Title
skos:notation (extent)
scheme Place-as-Concept
BL URI foaf:focus
Place-as-Thing
Dewey Info URI BL URI
a
owl:sameAs rdfs:label
rdfs:label Miscellaneous literals
a
rdfs:subClassOf
blt:PlaceConcept LCSH URI if
Subject available geo:SpatialThing
Tim Hodson - tim.hodson@talis.com
Corine Deliot - Corine.Deliot@bl.uk
dct:Location Alan Danskin - Alan.Danskin@bl.uk
V.1.01 Heather Rosie - Heather.Rosie@bl.uk
1st August 2011 Jan Ashton - Jan.Ashton@bl.uk

39. British Library Data Model
@prefix blt: <http://data.bl.uk/schema/bibliographic#> . Series Publication Events Key
event:Event
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
bibo:Series foaf:Agent External
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . dcterms:Agent An Instance Link
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> . MARC country code rdfs:subClassOf
A Class A Literal
@prefix isbd: <http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/elements/> . URI
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> . a
@prefix bibo: <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> . a geo:SpatialThing rdfs:label blt:PublicationEvent
@prefix rda: <http://RDVocab.info/ElementsGr2/> . rdfs:label foaf:focus
@prefix bio: <http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
bibo:issn
Author
@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> . rdfs:label
@prefix org: <http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> . Agent bio:Birth
Series GeoNames URI a
@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> . BL URI
BL URI
event:place
Place a
BL URI bio:Death a
LCSH URI if
available CalendarYear
event:agent bio:date
dct:isPartOf
event:place bio:date a
id.loc.gov URI for owl:sameAs a Birth BL URI
scheme rdfs:label
skos:inScheme
http://r.d.g/id/year/ Death BL URI
Topic LCSH dct:hasPart xxxx foaf:familyName
BL URI event:time PublicationEvent
a BL URI
blt:TopicLCSH
foaf:givenName
bio:event
rdfs:label
dct:BibliographicResource bio:event
rdfs:label foaf:name
rdfs:label bibo:Book
Person-as-Concept Person-as-Agent
rdfs:subClassOf a dct:subject BL URI
BL URI a foaf:Agent
a dct:creator dct:Agent
blt:PersonConcept blt:publication foaf:Person
skos:inScheme foaf:focus a
blt:hasCreated owl:sameAs
rdfs:subClassOf id.loc.gov URI for rdfs:label
scheme rda:periodOfActivityOfThePerson
rdfs:label dct:contributor
dct:subject
Skos:Concept blt:hasContributedTo
Family-as-Concept Resource VIAF URI if available
BL URI dct:subject
BL URI dct:creator
rdfs:subClassOf
a
blt:hasCreated Organization-as-Agent BL
skos:inScheme foaf:focus dct:subject URI
blt:FamilyConcept
dct:contributor
rdfs:label
blt:hasContributedTo
Family-as-Agent a
id.loc.gov URI for BL URI
scheme rdfs:label
[foaf:name]
rdfs:subClassOf foaf:Agent
dct:language dct:Agent
rdfs:label foaf:focus foaf:Organization
org:Organization
Organization-as-Concept Lexvo URI blt:bnb
blt:OrganizationConcept a dct:subject bibo:isbn10
BL URI bibo:isbn13
rdfs:label dct:subject dct:abstract
skos:inScheme foaf:focus
dct:tableOfContents
rdfs:subClassOf
isbd:P1008 dct:title
Identifiers
id.loc.gov URI for MARC language
code URI (edition statement)
scheme dct:spatial dct:alternative
blt:TopicDDC isbd:P1073 dct:description
a Dewey (note on language)
BL URI
skos:inScheme isbd:P1042
(content note)
Dewey Info URI for skos:broader isbd:P1053
Title
skos:notation (extent)
scheme Place-as-Concept
BL URI foaf:focus
Place-as-Thing
Dewey Info URI BL URI
a
owl:sameAs rdfs:label
rdfs:label Miscellaneous literals
a
rdfs:subClassOf
blt:PlaceConcept LCSH URI if
Subject available geo:SpatialThing
Tim Hodson - tim.hodson@talis.com
Corine Deliot - Corine.Deliot@bl.uk
dct:Location Alan Danskin - Alan.Danskin@bl.uk
V.1.01 Heather Rosie - Heather.Rosie@bl.uk
http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/pdfs/bldatamodelbook.pdf
1st August 2011 Jan Ashton - Jan.Ashton@bl.uk

40. British Library Data Model
@prefix blt: <http://data.bl.uk/schema/bibliographic#> . Series Publication Events Key
event:Event
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
bibo:Series foaf:Agent External
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . dcterms:Agent An Instance Link
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> . MARC country code rdfs:subClassOf
A Class A Literal
@prefix isbd: <http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/elements/> . URI
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> . a
@prefix bibo:
@prefix rda:
@prefix bio:
@prefix foaf:
@prefix blt: <http://data.bl.uk/schema/bibliographic#> .
<http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> .
<http://RDVocab.info/ElementsGr2/> .
<http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> .
<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
bibo:issn
rdfs:label
a
foaf:focus
geo:SpatialThing rdfs:label blt:PublicationEvent
Author
@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> . rdfs:label
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix org: <http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> . Agent bio:Birth
Series GeoNames URI a
@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> . BL URI
BL URI
event:place
Place a
bio:Death a
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
BL URI
LCSH URI if
available CalendarYear
event:agent bio:date
dct:isPartOf
event:place bio:date a
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
id.loc.gov URI for
scheme
owl:sameAs
skos:inScheme
Topic LCSH
rdfs:label
a
http://r.d.g/id/year/ Death BL URI
Birth BL URI
foaf:familyName
dct:hasPart xxxx event:time PublicationEvent
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
blt:TopicLCSH
a
BL URI
rdfs:label
BL URI
bio:event
foaf:givenName
dct:BibliographicResource bio:event
@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> . rdfs:label bibo:Book
rdfs:label
Person-as-Agent
foaf:name
Person-as-Concept
@prefix isbd: <http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/elements/> .
rdfs:subClassOf a dct:subject BL URI
BL URI a foaf:Agent
a dct:creator dct:Agent
blt:PersonConcept blt:publication foaf:Person
skos:inScheme foaf:focus a
blt:hasCreated owl:sameAs
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
rdfs:subClassOf id.loc.gov URI for
scheme rdfs:label
dct:subject
dct:contributor
blt:hasContributedTo
rda:periodOfActivityOfThePerson
rdfs:label
Skos:Concept VIAF URI if available
@prefix bibo: <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> .
rdfs:subClassOf
a
Family-as-Concept
BL URI dct:subject Resource
BL URI dct:creator
blt:hasCreated Organization-as-Agent BL
skos:inScheme
@prefix rda: <http://RDVocab.info/ElementsGr2/> .
blt:FamilyConcept foaf:focus dct:subject URI
dct:contributor
rdfs:label
blt:hasContributedTo
Family-as-Agent a
id.loc.gov URI for BL URI
@prefix bio: <http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> . scheme rdfs:label
[foaf:name]
rdfs:subClassOf foaf:Agent
dct:language dct:Agent
rdfs:label foaf:focus foaf:Organization
org:Organization
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
blt:OrganizationConcept a Organization-as-Concept
BL URI
dct:subject
Lexvo URI blt:bnb
bibo:isbn10 bibo:isbn13
@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> . rdfs:label
skos:inScheme
dct:subject
foaf:focus
dct:abstract
dct:tableOfContents
rdfs:subClassOf
dct:title
Identifiers
@prefix org: <http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> .
blt:TopicDDC
id.loc.gov URI for
scheme dct:spatial
MARC language
code URI
isbd:P1008
(edition statement)
isbd:P1073 dct:description
dct:alternative
a Dewey (note on language)
@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> . skos:inScheme
BL URI
skos:broader
isbd:P1042
(content note)
Title
Dewey Info URI for isbd:P1053
skos:notation (extent)
scheme Place-as-Concept
BL URI foaf:focus
Place-as-Thing
Dewey Info URI BL URI
a
owl:sameAs rdfs:label
rdfs:label Miscellaneous literals
a
rdfs:subClassOf
blt:PlaceConcept LCSH URI if
Subject available geo:SpatialThing
Tim Hodson - tim.hodson@talis.com
Corine Deliot - Corine.Deliot@bl.uk
dct:Location Alan Danskin - Alan.Danskin@bl.uk
V.1.01 Heather Rosie - Heather.Rosie@bl.uk
http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/pdfs/bldatamodelbook.pdf
1st August 2011 Jan Ashton - Jan.Ashton@bl.uk

60. http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardwallis/1768007630

61. Schema.org linking libraries to the web
TO
THE
SHARE
THE WEB
ROAD
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardwallis/1768007630

62. Schema.org linking libraries to the web
easily consumed & merged across domains
TO
THE
SHARE
THE WEB
ROAD
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardwallis/1768007630

63. Schema.org linking libraries to the web
easily consumed & merged across domains
no replacement for rich bibliographic metadata
TO
THE
SHARE
THE WEB
ROAD
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardwallis/1768007630

64. Schema.org linking libraries to the web
easily consumed & merged across domains
no replacement for rich bibliographic metadata
a powerful complement to it
TO
THE
SHARE
THE WEB
ROAD
http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardwallis/1768007630

65. Linked Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.

66. Linked Data
VIAF
http://viaf.org
HTML, RDF/XML
License: ODC-BY
The world’s libraries. Connected.

67. Linked Data
VIAF
http://viaf.org
HTML, RDF/XML
License: ODC-BY
Dewey
http://dewey.info
HTML/RDFa, RDF/XML, Turtle, JSON - SPARQL
License: CC BY-NC-ND
The world’s libraries. Connected.

68. Linked Data
VIAF
http://viaf.org
HTML, RDF/XML
License: ODC-BY
Dewey
http://dewey.info
HTML/RDFa, RDF/XML, Turtle, JSON - SPARQL
License: CC BY-NC-ND
FAST
http://id.worldcat.org/fast
HTML, RDF/XML - Download
License: ODC-BY
The world’s libraries. Connected.

69. Linked Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.

70. Linked Data
• 250+ Million resources
The world’s libraries. Connected.

71. Linked Data
• 250+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Library
The world’s libraries. Connected.

72. Linked Data
• 250+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Library
• Embedded RDFa
The world’s libraries. Connected.

73. Linked Data
• 250+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Library
• Embedded RDFa
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
The world’s libraries. Connected.

74. Linked Data
• 250+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Library
• Embedded RDFa
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
• License: ODC-BY
The world’s libraries. Connected.

75. Linked Data
• 250+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Library
• Embedded RDFa
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
• License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.

76. Linked Data
• 250+ Million resources Download file
• Schema.org + Library
• Embedded RDFa
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
• License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.

77. Linked Data
• 250+ Million resources Download file
• Schema.org + Library • Most widely held works
• Embedded RDFa (250+ holdings)
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
• License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.

78. Linked Data
• 250+ Million resources Download file
• Schema.org + Library • Most widely held works
• Embedded RDFa (250+ holdings)
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH • 1.2 Million resources
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
• License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.

79. Linked Data
• 250+ Million resources Download file
• Schema.org + Library • Most widely held works
• Embedded RDFa (250+ holdings)
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH • 1.2 Million resources
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST • Schema.org + Library
• License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.

80. Linked Data
• 250+ Million resources Download file
• Schema.org + Library • Most widely held works
• Embedded RDFa (250+ holdings)
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH • 1.2 Million resources
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST • Schema.org + Library
• License: ODC-BY • License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.

81. Linked Data
• 250+ Million resources Download file
• Schema.org + Library • Most widely held works
• Embedded RDFa (250+ holdings)
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH • 1.2 Million resources
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST • Schema.org + Library
• License: ODC-BY • License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012 • Today!
The world’s libraries. Connected.

82. Linked Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.

85. WorldCat Most Widely Held
1.2 Million
http://purl.oclc.org/dataset/WorldCat

89. http://www.oclc.org/data/attribution.html

90. Linked Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.

91. Linked Data
VIAF: http://viaf.org
Dewey: http://dewey.info
FAST: http://id.worldcat.org/fast
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org
WorldCat Most Widely Held Download:
http://purl.oclc.org/dataset/WorldCatMostHighlyHeld
ODC-BY Attribution Guidelines:
http://www.oclc.org/data/attribution.html
The world’s libraries. Connected. data@oclc.org

92. IFLA Helsinki 13 August 2012
#oclcldrt
Library Linked Data
Progress
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
OCLC
@rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.

93. IFLA Helsinki 13 August 2012
#oclcldrt
Library Linked Data
Progress
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
OCLC
@rjw
http://slideshare.net/rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.