korg 2012, oslo, from silo to (semantic) web. what happens to the library systems?

FROM SILO TO (SEMANTIC) WEB.WHAT HAPPENS TO THE LIBRARY SYSTEMS?

ROB STYLES, DATA ENGINEERING

Kunnskapsorganisasjonsdagene 2012, Oslo, Norway

A brief history of the Web.

The Web is not The Internet.

1990 — Tim Berners-Lee starts WorldWideWeb

1990 — Tim Berners-Lee starts WorldWideWeb

2000 — Jimmy Wales starts Wikipedia

1980 — Tim Berners-Lee wrote Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything

1990 — Tim Berners-Lee starts WorldWideWeb

2000 — Jimmy Wales starts Wikipedia

1980 — Tim Berners-Lee wrote Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything

1990 — Tim Berners-Lee starts WorldWideWeb

2000 — Jimmy Wales starts Wikipedia

2007 — Tim Berners-Lee starts Linking Open Data

1980 — Tim Berners-Lee wrote Enquire-Within-Upon-Everything

1990 — Tim Berners-Lee starts WorldWideWeb

2000 — Jimmy Wales starts Wikipedia

2007 — Tim Berners-Lee starts Linking Open Data

1999 — Tim Berners-Lee publishes Weaving the Web

What are people looking for?

WHAT ARE PEOPLE LOOKING FOR?

1. don cornelius

2. soul train

3. susan g komen

4. dorial green beckham

5. national signing day 2012

6. groundhog day

7. facebook ipo

8. black history month

9. landon collins

10. kristen bell

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends?sa=X&date=2012-02-01

Format.

PageRank.

Search Engine Results.

Ambiguity.(the Paris Hilton problem)

Wikipedia.

BCHCThe World’s Hairdressers Connected

MARC will die.(let’s help libraries to live on...)

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A MARC RECORD

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Partita No.1 in B minor

Person

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http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2008/

STUFF TO LOOK AT...• Dublin Core

http://dublincore.org/

• The Bibliographic Ontology publishedhttp://bibliontology.com/

• LIBRIS, the Swedish union catalogue as Linked Datahttp://blog.libris.kb.se/semweb/?p=7

• Library of Congress launched subject headingshttp://id.loc.gov

• OCLC make VIAF Linked Datahttp://www.oclc.org/nextspace/013/research.htm

• RDA Vocabulary published as RDFhttp://metadataregistry.org/

• Open Library developing Linked Data viewshttp://openlibrary.org

• Library of Congress launch Chronicling Americahttp://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

• German National Libraryhttps://wiki.d-nb.de/

• Hungarian National Libraryhttp://nektar.oszk.hu/

• MARC21 codes published as Linked Datahttp://purl.org/NET/marccodes/

• Dewey published as Linked Datahttp://dewey.info/

• eXtensible Catalog uses RDF internallyhttp://www.extensiblecatalog.org/

• Talis running a Linked Data OPAChttp://www.talis.com/prism

Data is just people saying stuff.

Semantics is meaning.

Syntax is the rules.

The Web of Documents;a Syntactic Web.

The Web of Data;a Semantic Web.

Use web addressesas names for real things.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/species/Lion#species

When someone requests that URL, give back useful

information.

Provide links to other things, both in your own site and

elsewhere.

Linked Data is not* about publishing data on the web, it’s about making the things your

website says machine-readable.

* just

• “Mallard” is a Species.

• “Mallard” is a Species.

• “Mallard” has a scientific name of “Anas Platyrhynchos”.

• “Mallard” is a Species.

• “Mallard” has a scientific name of “Anas Platyrhynchos”.

• “Mallard” has a common name of “Wild duck”.

• “Mallard” is a Species.

• “Mallard” has a scientific name of “Anas Platyrhynchos”.

• “Mallard” has a common name of “Wild duck”.

• “Mallard” lives in the “Lake” habitat (amongst others).

• “Mallard” is a Species.

• “Mallard” has a scientific name of “Anas Platyrhynchos”.

• “Mallard” has a common name of “Wild duck”.

• “Mallard” lives in the “Lake” habitat (amongst others).

• “Wild Nature” is a video clip.

• “Mallard” is a Species.

• “Mallard” has a scientific name of “Anas Platyrhynchos”.

• “Mallard” has a common name of “Wild duck”.

• “Mallard” lives in the “Lake” habitat (amongst others).

• “Wild Nature” is a video clip.

• “Wild Nature” is about the species “Mallard”.

• “Mallard” is a Species.

• “Mallard” has a scientific name of “Anas Platyrhynchos”.

• “Mallard” has a common name of “Wild duck”.

• “Mallard” lives in the “Lake” habitat (amongst others).

• “Wild Nature” is a video clip.

• “Wild Nature” is about the species “Mallard”.

• “Mallard” is a Species.

• “Mallard” has a scientific name of “Anas Platyrhynchos”.

• “Mallard” has a common name of “Wild duck”.

• “Mallard” lives in the “Lake” habitat (amongst others).

• “Wild Nature” is a video clip.

• “Wild Nature” is about the species “Mallard”.

• “Mallard” is a Species.

• “Mallard” has a scientific name of “Anas Platyrhynchos”.

• “Mallard” has a common name of “Wild duck”.

• “Mallard” lives in the “Lake” habitat (amongst others).

• “Wild Nature” is a video clip.

• “Wild Nature” is about the species “Mallard”.

• “Mallard” is a Species.

• “Mallard” has a scientific name of “Anas Platyrhynchos”.

• “Mallard” has a common name of “Wild duck”.

• “Mallard” lives in the “Lake” habitat (amongst others).

• “Wild Nature” is a video clip.

• “Wild Nature” is about the species “Mallard”.

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• “Mallard” has a scientific name of “Anas Platyrhynchos”.

• “Mallard” has a common name of “Wild duck”.

• “Mallard” lives in the “Lake” habitat (amongst others).

• “Wild Nature” is a video clip.

• “Wild Nature” is about the species “Mallard”.

MallardSpecies

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• “Mallard” is a Species.

• “Mallard” has a scientific name of “Anas Platyrhynchos”.

• “Mallard” has a common name of “Wild duck”.

• “Mallard” lives in the “Lake” habitat (amongst others).

• “Wild Nature” is a video clip.

• “Wild Nature” is about the species “Mallard”.

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• “Mallard” has a common name of “Wild duck”.

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• “Wild Nature” is a video clip.

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• “Wild Nature” is a video clip.

• “Wild Nature” is about the species “Mallard”.

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Think in terms of webs of things, not hierarchies or site maps

and definitely notrecords!

still more... An internet of things

What’s stopping you?

Publish your data now,don’t wait to be asked for it(in whatever form you can, MARC21, NORMARC, anything)

Publish your data now,don’t wait to be asked for it(in whatever form you can, MARC21, NORMARC, anything)

Clearly license your dataso that others can use it(Creative Commons CC0 is good, or Open Data Commons PDDL)

Publish your data now,don’t wait to be asked for it(in whatever form you can, MARC21, NORMARC, anything)

Clearly license your dataso that others can use it(Creative Commons CC0 is good, or Open Data Commons PDDL)

Encourage anyone and everyoneto do interesting things with your data(even those things are things that make you uncomfortable)

IMAGE CREDITS

Oslo.Summer.Youth.Love by Anatoly Kraynikov, CC-BY-NC-ND

Library Donations Box by Stephen Kellat, CC-BY-NC-SA

Library Automation History by Marshall Breeding, Copyright 2011

Tools by Ole Husby, CC-BY-SA

Haworth 1960s Weekend 2011 by John Sargent, CC-BY-NC-SA

Stone Mason by Leo Reynolds, CC-BY-NC-SA

OSL 031 Vippetangen (Silos) by Marius Watz, CC-BY-NC-SA

BBC Wildlife Finder, Copyright 2012 BBC, reproduced with permission

JK Rowling by Steven Hill, CC-BY

Charles Ammi Cutter, Photograph circa 1880, Photographer unknown.

Library of Alexandria by Ronald Woan, CC-BY-NC

Card Catalog, Copyright © Karen Coyle, reproduced with permission

Treasure map by Joe Nicora, CC-BY-NC-ND

Chorus Line by Patrick, CC-BY-NC

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