Presented on October 16, 2015 at the Nebraska Library Association/Nebraska School Librarians Association conference

1. Life After MARC:
Cataloging Tools of the Future
Emily Dust Nimsakont
Head of Cataloging &
Resource Management
Schmid Law Library,
University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
College of Law
NLA/NSLA Conference
October 16, 2015
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2. What is
Linked
Data?
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3. Wikipedia says…
“Linked Data describes a method of publishing
structured data, so that it can be interlinked
and become more useful. It builds upon standard
web technologies, such as HTTP and URIs - but
rather than using them to serve web pages for
human readers, it extends them to share
information in a way that can be read
automatically by computers.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data

4. resource
resource
resource
resource
resource links to
links to
links to
links to

5. data links to
links to
links to
links to
data data
data
data
data
data
data
data
data
data
data

6. HTML
<h1>This is a heading.</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

7. RDF/XML
<rdf:Description
rdf:about="http://www.recshop.fake/cd/Empi
re Burlesque">
<cd:artist>Bob Dylan</cd:artist>
<cd:country>USA</cd:country>
<cd:company>Columbia</cd:company>
<cd:price>10.90</cd:price>
<cd:year>1985</cd:year>
</rdf:Description>
http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_example.asp

8. We are used to connecting pieces of information
based on their context.
Title: A Christmas Carol
Author: Charles Dickens
Relationships are key.
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9. Linked Data makes the
relationships explicit (to
computers!)
subject object
A Christmas
Carol
Charles
Dickens
has
author
predicate

10. <rdf:Description
rdf:about="http://www.recshop.fake/cd/Empi
re Burlesque">
<cd:artist>Bob Dylan</cd:artist>
<cd:country>USA</cd:country>
<cd:company>Columbia</cd:company>
<cd:price>10.90</cd:price>
<cd:year>1985</cd:year>
</rdf:Description>
http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_example.asp

11. “Just as the traditional document Web can be
crawled by following hypertext links, the Web of
Data can be crawled by following RDF links.
Working on the crawled data, search engines can
provide sophisticated query capabilities...
Because the query results themselves are
structured data, not just links to HTML pages, they
can be immediately processed, thus enabling a
new class of applications based on the Web of
Data.”
Chris Bizer, Richard Cyganiak, and Tom Heath
How to Publish Linked Data on the Web
http://linkeddata.org/docs/how-to-publish

16. Why should librarians care
about Linked Data?
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17. “…the Library community’s data carrier,
MARC, is ‘based on forty-year-old
techniques for data management and is out
of step with programming styles of today.’”
“…something new is now
needed…”
“The new bibliographic framework project
will be focused on…Linked Data
principles and mechanisms…”
“A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age” http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html

18. BIBFRAME
Bibliographic Framework
Transition Initiative
http://bibframe.org
http://loc.gov/bibframe

19. OpenCat

20. http://files.dnb.de/svensson/UILLD2013/UILLD-submission-3-formatted-final.pdf

21. OpenCat
http://files.dnb.de/svensson/UILLD2013/UILLD-submission-3-formatted-final.pdf

22. Web Visibility
“When my community searches the web for
something we have, we better show up as an
option.”
Chuck Gibson, Director & CEO
Worthington Public Library
“The Visible Library,” Library Journal Webcast, February 26, 2015
http://goo.gl/8NErmA

24. Library of Congress’s Summary
1. Libraries have a huge amount of identifiers
2. No other community does authorities like we
do
3. We identify, structure, organize data in
different ways
4. With BIBFRAME we can leverage existing
Web standards make library content more
visible on the Web
5. Translate MARC skills and practices into a
Linked Data context
http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/bibframe/

25. RIMMF
RDA in Many Metadata Formats
http://www.marcofquality.com/wiki/rimmf/

26. RIMMF – Entity Index

29. BIBFRAME Editor – Zepheira Scribe
http://editor.bibframe.zepheira.com/static/

34. LC’s BIBFRAME Editor
http://bibframe.org/tools/editor/

40. LC’s BIBFRAME Comparison Service
http://bibframe.org/tools/compare/

42. MarcEdit’s MarcNext Options
http://marcedit.reeset.net/

46. Linked Data Options in OpenRefine
http://openrefine.org/

51. Questions?
Emily Dust Nimsakont
Schmid Law Library
emily.dust.nimsakont@unl.edu
http://www.slideshare.net/enimsakont