Presentation given at IFLA 2012 (Helsinki) on National Library of Scotland's low cost initiatives and developments with open data and linked open data. Includes loading of data and resources to Flickr and Youtube. Work with Open Knowledge Foundation on how to publish open data. Licensing open data as CC.0. Work with freeyourmetadata.org to learn how to use Google Refine for URI resolution. Work with Metadata Management Asssociates to model structure of the Library's Digital Object Database as RDF.

1. opening new doors
recent initiatives in open data at
National Library of Scotland
Gill Hamilton
Systems Librarian
g.hamilton@nls.uk

2. agenda
o "widening access to knowledge"
o opening data to social media services
o the move to open data
o finding our way with linked open data

3. widening access to knowledge
"we will make
digital resources accessible
through
communications media
which are effective in
promoting the use and discovery
of our collections."

4. widening access to knowledge
"we will improve
access to our collections
by finding
new ways
for our users to
interact with us
and
others."

5. social media services
Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland
• 2,500 images
• 1,500 views per day
• 1.8 million views in total
• 10% have comments

6. social media services
Flickr
52,000 views
114 favorited
20 comments
"It is a Lee Enfield gun .."
"I'm doing a presentation,
may I use the image?"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/3012796098/

7. social media services
You Tube
102 videos
300,000 views
186 comments
"Fab wee motor."
"My parents had one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9l01vy7y3w
of these"

8. social media services
Licensing, copyright and rights
• out of copyright and/or copyright owner
• to gain benefits you must give away
some or all control
• Flickr The Commons

9. social media services
Lessons learned....
• minimal investment for improved access
• taster of the Library's collections
• the world is full of knowledgeable people
• to gain benefits you have to give something up
• findability beyond the Library website
• open ... but not open enough

10. open data
is the concept that data
is made available
so others can use
and re-use it
without restrictions
of copyright
or control mechanisms

11. open data
if you created the metadata
then you can license it as you wish
if you create or own the resource
then you can license it as you wish

12. open data
CC.0

13. open data
The 5 easy steps to open data
1. licensed
2. structured
3. documented
4. published
5. publicised
"Give us raw data
and give it to us NOW!"

14. open data
The 5 easy steps to open data
• licensed
 CC.O
• structured
 Solr XML, MARC21, Dublin Core
• documented
 don't make assumptions
• published
 thedatahub
• publicised
 twitter, blog, conference

15. open data
http://thedatahub.org/dataset/nls-forthbridge

16. linked open data
What we don't have .... experience
skills
resources
What we do have ... great data
lots of enthusiasm
friends to help

17. linked open data
What we did until April 2012
stop ... start ... stop ... start ... stop ... start
• went to school to learn RDF
• tried mapping our data to DC Terms
• tried to discover URIs
• created RDF for a single resource
• wondered what to do next
• wondered if it was worth our while

18. linked open data
And then we spoke to our friends:
freeYourMetadata.org
"you should use Google Refine to discover URIs"
Open Knowledge Foundation
"use theDataHub.org for publishing & use CC.0"
Metadata Management Associates
"let us help you model your data because we
have a theory ..."

19. linked open data
local & closed global & open
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DOD
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data
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structure
DOD.title
DOD.keyword
DOD.who

20. linked open data
local global & open
& closed
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DOD
data
structure
DOD.title
DOD.keyword
DOD.who

21. linked open data
local global & open
& closed R
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22. linked open data

23. linked open data

24. linked open data
Next steps ....
• keep learning .... keep asking!
• publish structure and data to theDataHub
o Forth Bridge
o Haig photos
o Everything!
• record URIs at metadata creation
• address licensing issues with vocabularies
• hope someone uses it!

25. Thank you ....
References Me
• NLS at Flickr & YouTube Gill Hamilton
o http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/
g.hamilton@nls.uk
o http://www.youtube.com/user/NLofScotland
• NLS at thedatahub
o http://freeyourmetadata.org/
• NLS DOD at The Open Metadata Registry
o http://metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/list/schema_id/64.html
• Open Knowledge Foundation
o http://okfn.org/
• Metadata Management Associates
o http://managemetadata.com/
• freeyourmetadata.org
• thedatahub.org