Lightening Talk at SWIB 2012 Cologne 28 November 2012

1. Why ?
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
OCLC
@rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.

2. Why ?
for libraries ?

3. Why

4. Why Catalogue ?
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5. Why Catalogue ?
So people can find
our stuff !
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6. Where are our users?
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7. Where are our users?
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8. Where are our users?
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9. our users are in

10. our users are in

11. our users are in
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13. our data are not in

14. our data are not in

15. our data are not in
Why?

16. our data are not in
Why?
does not understand:
Marc, ISBD, OAI-PMH, RDA, Z39.50, Onyx ....

20. A broad
vocabulary to
describe ‘things’
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28. • June 2011: Launch of Schema.org

29. • June 2011: Launch of Schema.org
• June 2012: 7%-10% of crawled pages contain Schema.org markup

30. is

31. is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange

32. is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange - No

33. is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange - No
• For sharing library data with the world

34. is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange - No
• For sharing library data with the world - Almost

37. http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex
• Short lived group
• Libraries, Publishers, Consumers, System Vendors, Linked Data, Standards Bodies
• Library is only one focus

38. libraries should use

39. libraries should use
to describe & link
resources to the web

40. libraries should use
to describe & link
resources to the web
at the same time as
applying other vocabularies and
standards

41. That’s

42. That’s
Why
for libraries
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
OCLC
@rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.