With Fake News and Alternative Facts being part of the everyday agenda, the notion of trustworthy data is getting increasingly important. Government agencies have an important role to play here as suppliers of authoritative information. In this presentation, held in the Edinburgh University Library on February 27, 2017, I started out outlining what data we publish in the German National Library and then go on to explore how this information can be interesting to other government agencies and what information they publish can be interesting for libraries.

1. Towards an authoritative global
data infrastructure: Connecting
Libraries with other Government
Organisations
Lars G. Svensson
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The internet makes it possible to exchange
information at an unprecedented speed
PhotobytransCam(CCBY-NC-ND2.0):https://flic.kr/p/5NEG7

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We all use those possibilities every day
(internally and for citizen communication)
GraphicbyAntonioGonzález(CCBY2.0):https://flic.kr/p/4iugUf

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Not all information that accessible is also
reliable (fake news, alternative facts)
ByBartolomeuVelho-Ownwork,PublicDomain,https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3672259

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Ideally, it should be easy to find and re-use
trustworthy information
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ByKimTraynor-Ownwork,CCBY-SA3.0,https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21286316

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Government agencies can play an important
part by publishing and re-using data
https://beta.gov.scot/publications/open-data-resource-pack/

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As a national library, the DNB is a major data
producer
ILS
internal
format
PICA
IN OUT
Manual
cataloguing
Import:
MARC 21
ONIX
XMetaDissPlus
JATS
BEACON
MARC 21
MODS
Dublin Core
Linked Data
CSV
PDF
GraphiccourtseytoJanaHentschke,DNB

8. Persons (4.3/6.6M)
Corp. Bodies (1.6M)
Subjects (209k)
Places (329k)
Works (296k)
Events (780k)
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Our main datasets are titles and authorities
Titles
(27 mill.
units)

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The Union Database for Serials publish titles,
holdings and a list of all libraries in Germany
Addresses
(16k, also includes some
archives and museums)
Titles
(1.8 mill. with
14.3 mill holdings)

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Cataloguers create links in our Central
Bibliographic Database
[...]
100 Elbogen, Ismar
375 m
400 Elbogen, Yiṣhạq Moše
400 Elbogen, Jiṣhāq Möšeh
400 Elbogen, Itamar
400 Elbogen, J.
400 Elbogen, I.
400 ʾLBWGN, Jiṣḥaq Mōšeh
400 Elbogen, Yitsḥaḳ Mosheh
400 $T01$UHebr%% ‫אלבוגן‬,‫יצחק‬‫משה‬
548 $a01.09.1874$b01.08.1943$4datx
548 1874$b1943$4datl
550 !040250989!Historiker [Ts1]$4berc
551 !943330920!Ostrzeszów [Tg1]$4ortg
551 !040420116!New York, NY [Tg1]$4orts
551 !040787044!USA [Tg1]$4ortx$Z1938
667 7
667 Maschinell verknuepft mit DBL-Retro-Titeldaten
[...]
[...]
2105 95,G03,0966
2242 |o|722667362
3000 !116446706!Elbogen, Ismar [Tp1]
3211 Der @jüdische Gottesdienst in seiner geschichtlichen
4000 Jewish liturgy : a comprehensive history / by Ismar El
4020 #11#1. Engl. ed.
4030 Philadelphia ; Jerusalem : Jewish Publ. Soc.
4030 New York ; Jerusalem : Jewish Theological Seminary o
4060 XXI, 501 S.
4062 27 cm
4201 Literaturverz. S. 461 - 473
4700 |FE|H
5050 %13+200+220+290
5100 !040216713!Gottesdienst [Ts1]
5101 !041140877!Judentum [Ts1]
[...]

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Automated processes handling digital
publications are part of the equation, too
[…]
4180 IFLA Publications ; 162
4201 Lizenzpflichtig
4233 *a*
4243 Erscheint auch als$nOnline-Ausgabe$i978-3-11-031700-8
4243 Erscheint auch als$i978-3-11-031701-5
4243 Erscheint auch als$nDruck-Ausgabe!1032799889!--Aa--: Linked data and user interaction
4256 Elektronische Reproduktion von$i9783110316926
4700 |PE|*Parallelverknüpfung wurde automatisch erstellt
5050 020$Ep$D2016-05-27
5050 020$Em$Hdnb$K0,993$D2016-05-27
5050 020$Ea$Honx$D2016-05-26
5051 $KK_A4_06_20151019_en
5052 $f570$F0,759$g530$G0,718$D2016-05-27
5100 !040064395!Bibliothek [Ts1]
5101 !1021290033!Linked Data [Ts1]
5102 !041385349!Benutzer [Ts1]
5103 !041259092!Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation [Ts1]
5104 !041215605!Recherche [Ts1]
5105 !041323157!Suchverfahren [Ts1]
[…]
[…]
5100 !040291057!Kabbala [Ts1]
5101 !041205375!Kabbalistik [Ts1]
5102 :z Geschichte
5109 (DE-101){DE-101}
5110 !041140877!Judentum [Ts1]
5111 !04041003X!Mystik [Ts1]
5112 :z Geschichte
5119 (DE-101){DE-101}
5540 [FA]!041140877!Judentum [Ts1]
5540 [GND]!964308118!Zizit [Ts1]$K0,009$D2016
5540 [GND]!040097994!Chassidismus [Ts1]$K0,00
5540 [GND]!041205375!Kabbalistik [Ts1]$K0,005
5540 [GND]!040216845!Gottesname [Ts1]$K0,004
5540 [GND]!040216624!Gott [Ts1]$K0,004$D2016
5540 [GND]!119235587!Yisraʾel ben Eliʿezer Baʿal
5540 [GND]!041910117!Zohar [Tu1]$K0,003$D201
5540 [GND]!041336992!Talmud [Tu1]$K0,003$D20
5540 [GND]!11900173X!Akiba ben Joseph [Tp1]$K
5540 [GND]!040291057!Kabbala [Ts1]$K0,615$D2
5540 [GND]!04041003X!Mystik [Ts1]$K0,300$D20
5540 [GND]!042243726!Sefirot [Ts1]$K0,016$D20
[…]

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A further source is to import links from third
parties (e. g. Wikipedia)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismar_Elbogen
http://d-nb.info/gnd/116446706

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All this data is available in several formats
Conversion Seriali-
sation
ILS
Data Conversion Service
Conversion
I
n
d
e
x Enrichment
Database
Wikidata
RDF
MARC 21
EntityFacts
PDF
CSV
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http://d-nb.info
SRU
OAI
Data Dumps
Data ShopVIAF
Classification
Alignments
GND-ID-Lists
Slide adapted from Jana Hentschke

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Library customers and patrons are of course
keen on MARC 21, PDF and CSV

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We see an increasing interest in RDF
serialisations
<http://d-nb.info/gnd/118615033> a gndo:DifferentiatedPerson ;
foaf:page <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith> ;
owl:sameAs <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Adam_Smith> , <http://viaf.org/viaf/49231791> ;
gndo:gndIdentifier "118615033" ;
gndo:oldAuthorityNumber "(DE-588a)118615033" , "(DE-588c)4055316-4" ;
gndo:variantNameForThePerson "Smit, Adam" ;
gndo:variantNameForThePerson "Smith, Adamo" ;
gndo:preferredNameForThePerson "Smith, Adam" ;
gndo:professionOrOccupation <http://d-nb.info/gnd/4045790-4> ,
<http://d-nb.info/gnd/4188566-1> , <http://d-nb.info/gnd/4066533-1> ;
gndo:gndSubjectCategory <http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#4.7p> ,
<http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#10.2dp> ,
<http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#10.1p> ;
gndo:placeOfBirth <http://d-nb.info/gnd/4030852-2> ;
gndo:gender <http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gender#male> ;
gndo:dateOfBirth "1723"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#gYear> ;
gndo:dateOfDeath "1790"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#gYear> .

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EntityFacts offers fact sheets about persons,
places and things from the authorities
{ "@context" : "http://hub.culturegraph.org/entityfacts/context/v1/entityfacts.jsonld",
"@type" : "person",
"@id" : "http://d-nb.info/gnd/118615033",
"preferredName" : "Adam Smith",
"surname" : "Smith",
"forename" : "Adam",
"variantName" : [ "Adam Smit", "Adamo Smith" ],
"dateOfBirth" : "1723", "dateOfDeath" : "1790",
"placeOfBirth" : [ {
"@id" : "http://d-nb.info/gnd/4030852-2",
"preferredName" : "Kirkcaldy„
} ],
"professionOrOccupation" : [ {
"@id" : "http://d-nb.info/gnd/4045790-4",
"preferredName" : "Philosoph„
}, {
"@id" : "http://d-nb.info/gnd/4188566-1",
"preferredName" : "Volkswirt" },
"depiction" : {
"@id" : "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AdamSmith.jpg",
"thumbnail" : {
"@id" : "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AdamSmith.jpg?width=270"
},

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In the DNB, we re-use all this data in our
catalogue, but that‘s not the main point
http://d-nb.info/gnd/4217595-1

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One way to re-use data is by importing it into
a third-party system
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Third party
DNB
Data

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The portal EconBiz uses the authorities to
implement autosuggest for author names
http://www.econbiz.de/

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Another way to re-use data is to reference it
per URI
DNBThird party
DNB
Data

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This happens all the time, e. g. in the
Wikipedia
https://viaf.org/viaf/49231791 http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119250114

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A third option is actual data integration
Third party
DNB
Data

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The German Digital Library uses EntityFacts
for their presentation layer
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museum-digital leverage the DBPedia links
supplied in the RDF data
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https://www.museum-digital.de/nat/index.php?t=objekt&oges=77697

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The geospatial coordinates have been
exploited by game-creators

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So where do you enter the equation?
PhotobyKIUIStaff(CCBY):http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiui/3693823005/
Library
data
Other
data
Some
data

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Geospatial data is very useful
http://search.kartenportal.ch/#bbox=-3.333018700000025,55.8904228,-3.077658804256089,55.991993900000004
&q=&date_from=0&date_to=9999&scale_from=&scale_to=&libraries=&map=road

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Company information is another
http://d-nb.info/gnd/1086232674
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/SC139240

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So which data can libraries supply that is
interesting for others?
PhotobyBeatriceMurch(CCBY-SA2.0):https://flic.kr/p/H9rLR

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The cultural heritage sector is an obvious
case

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Taxonomies and knowledge organisation
systems are possible focal points, too
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Government agencies can be the backbone of
trusted data infrastructures

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And together we can help our citizens
navigate an increasingly complex world
PhotobyNicoKaiser(CC-BY):http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicokaiser/4667377944/sizes/z/in/photostream/

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And I think we can still find a way
PhotobyBuck(CCBY-SA2.0):https://flic.kr/p/6ETfcR

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Lars G. Svensson
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Adickesallee 1
60322 Frankfurt
Germany
l.svensson@dnb.de
http://www.dnb.de/
Contact information
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