Keynote Presentation to the ACOC Seminar in Melbourne Australia 1st November 2013.
Reviewing how libraries need to look towards using Linked Data techniques and general vocabularies, such as Schema.org, to share their data with the wider web - helping the search engines to guide users back to library collections.
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They have left the building: The Web Route to Library Users
1. Link-by-Link – Melbourne - 1st November2013
They have left the building
The Web route to library users
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
@rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.
2. Where are our users?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/2329267266/
The world’s libraries. Connected.
The world’s libraries. Connected.
3. Where our users are!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/malbooth/5099621729/
The world’s libraries. Connected.
The world’s libraries. Connected.
4. Where are our users?
The world’s libraries. Connected.
The world’s libraries. Connected.
5. Where our users are!
The world’s libraries. Connected.
The world’s libraries. Connected.
7. The problem with access to library
collections:
People aren’t using the library catalog?
(No… that’s just a fact.)
The real problem is that we don’t expose our
collections very well on the web.
The world’s libraries. Connected.
8. What the Web wants
Some things
the web wants:
1. Size
2. Familiar structures
3. A network of links
4. Entity identifiers
The world’s libraries. Connected.
9. library data:
stored as records
author
location
edition
title
holding
source
classification
publisher
ISBN
subject publication
date of
The world’s libraries. Connected.
10. library data:
stored as records
person
place
author
location
edition
title
holding
source
object
concept
classification
publisher
ISBN
date of publication
organization
The world’s libraries. Connected.
work
11. library data stored as entities
person
author
place
object
concept
item
availability
subject
organization
The world’s libraries. Connected.
work
12. library data stored as entities
library knowledge graph
person
place
object
concept
organization
The world’s libraries. Connected.
work
13. Knowledge cards for libraries
Günter Grass
Born: 16 October 1927
Gdaosk, Poland
German novelist, poet,
playwright, illustrator,
graphic artist, sculptor and
recipient of the 1999 Nobel
Prize in Literature.
Works
Subjects
Germany | German literature | Historical fiction
War stories | Black humor | Fantasy
Quotes
“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”—
The Tin Drum
Find Günter Grass works at:
Libraries near me | Online Retailers
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Google Knowledge Graph
14. Knowledge cards for Library data stored as entities
libraries
the library knowledge graph
Günter Grass
Born: 16 October 1927
Gdaosk, Poland
German novelist, poet,
playwright, illustrator,
graphic artist, sculptor and
recipient of the 1999 Nobel
Prize in Literature.
Works
Subjects
Germany | German literature | Historical fiction
War stories | Black humor | Fantasy
Quotes
“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”—
The Tin Drum
Find Günter Grass works at:
Libraries near me | Online Retailers
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Library content
Web content
Links out to e-commerce
15. library data stored as entities
Field in a record vs. entity in knowledge graph
person
Günter Grass
object
this copy of
“The Tin Drum”
library
organization
The world’s libraries. Connected.
place
Germany
Historical
Fiction concept
expression
“Die Blechtrommel”
“The Tin Drum”
work
16. library data:
stored as records
author
location
edition
title
holding
source
classification
publisher
ISBN
date of publication
The world’s libraries. Connected.
17. library data stored as entities
library knowledge graph
person
place
object
concept
organization
The world’s libraries. Connected.
work
18. We are moving from
cataloguing
to
catalinking
http://
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Eric Miller - Zepheira
21. Tell them about our
resources… their language and methods
…using
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/6220572487
The world’s libraries. Connected.
22. WorldCat Linked Data
Linked Data
•
•
•
•
300+ million data resources
Schema.org
Embedded RDFa
Links to Dewey, LCSH, LCNAF,
DOI, VIAF, FAST
• ODC-BY license
• June 2012
• Continuing development:
• Vocabulary, Content-negotiation, Links, Works, …
The world’s libraries. Connected.
23. How we are sharing with the web
Some things
the web wants:
What the web
gets:
1.
2.
3.
4.
• WorldCat 300M+
• Schema.org
• VIAF, LCSH, Dewey, …
• WorldCat persistent
identifiers (URIs)
Size
Familiar structures
A network of links
Entity identifiers
The world’s libraries. Connected.
27. Part of the Web of Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.
28. Part of the Web of Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.
29. Part of the Web of Data
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q238514
Nawal El Saadawi
VIAF
sameAs
http://viaf.org/viaf/84254254/
author
Worldcat.org/oclc/81453459
The Hidden Face of Eve
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sameAs
Nawal El Saadawi
sameAs
http://isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/0000000120296695
Nawal El Saadawi
33. BIBFRAME
Bibliographic Framework as a
Web of Data:
It is the foundation for the future of
bibliographic description that happens on, in,
and as part of the web and the networked
world we live in.
http://www.bibframe.org
The world’s libraries. Connected.
34. ≈ Complementary ≈
? Conflict ?
bibliographic description as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54136840@N00/4921290518/
The world’s libraries. Connected.
35. Be Visible on the
Web of Data
Lighting the way to your resources …
…. registered in the network
http://wallpapersfor.me/storm-beacon/
The world’s libraries. Connected.
41. Link-by-Link – Melbourne - 1st November2013
They have left the building
The Web route to library users
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
@rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.
43. Link-by-Link – Melbourne - 1st November2013
They have left the building
The Web route to library users
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
@rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Hinweis der Redaktion
As Ted reminded us – all these developments are part of a continuumUsing the technology of the day to best achieve our mission We are using today’s technology – to build a web of data..