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Turtle dreaming

Gordon DunsirePresented to the seminar

“Five years on”British Library, London, 27 April 2012

Introducing my new wee pal

Terry the turtle

MARC21 Swamp

Out of the primordial soup

Tag 008 - Fixed-Length Data Elements =

Character position 22 – Target audience

Leader character position 06 - Type of record =

a (Language material)

Configuration for Books

m21:M008BK22“Target audience of Books”

URI =Label =

This thing has target audiencefor books code j (juvenile)

m21:M008BK22ex:1

m21t:commonaud#j .I’m a triple!*

(in ttl) *Linkable!

Wanna link up with me?

“juvenile”

ex:1 m21terms:commonaud#j

m21:M008BK22

skos:prefLabelI look my best

as an RDF graph

Are you feeling lonely and unlinked? Want to meet similar turtles?

Arrive withouttravelling!

Take the sub-property ladder to new places!

Dumb-up today!Nobodynotices meanymore

The sub-property ladder

m21:“Target audience of

books”

m21:“Target audience”

rdfs:subPropertyOf

m21:“Target audience oflanguage material”

m21:“Target audience of

music”

m21:“Target audience of

visual materials”

Entailed triples …

ex:1 m21terms:commonaud#j

m21:“Target audience

for books”

“juvenile”

skos:preferred label

m21:“Target audience”

… (Dumber)

Cloned turtles

m21:“Target audience”

frbrer:“has intended

audience”

rda:“Intended audience”

dct:“audience”

isbd:“has note on

use or audience”

unconstrained:“Intended audience”

unconstrained:“has note on

use or audience”

rdfs:subPropertyOf

rdfs:subPropertyOf

“Audience” map

MARC21Swamp

FRBRZoo! Everglades of

Dublin Core!ISBD

Marsh!

Bog of RDA!

Terry’s cousin Timmy

m21:M260__c“Date of publication,distribution, etc. inPublication,Distribution, etc.(Imprint) (Notapplicable or Noinformation providedor Earliest availablepublisher)”

URI =Label =ex:2

m21:M260__c“2009”

(that’s me!)

Timmy has a problem

Timmy can use the sub-propertyLadder to mingle with otherdate-ish turtles:m21:M260__c rdfs:subPropertyOf dct:date.

But Timmy also wants to be partof the instance group for turtlesbased on other MARC21 260elements …

Publication, etc. statement

It’s aggregating, I know,but we’re all in this together!

The DCAM/DCAP Deep

?!* Come join us!

Bridging the gapDCMI

ArchitectureForum

RDFWorkingGroup

Syntax encoding schemes

Named graphs

Description sets

Application profiles

OWL

W

E

M

I

While Timmy waits …

… Terry has turtle dreams

We are FRBR

Onetriple

to rulethem all

?

The Great A’Tuin

Thank you!

gordon@gordondunsire.comBlog posts on Metadata matters

http://managemetadata.com/blog/

Graphics Turtle cartoon: Church House Clipart

http://www.churchhouseclipart.com/ Swamp640: Copyright Brian S. Kissinger

http://visualparadox.com/wallpapers/wallpaper_640x480.asp?wallpaper=swamp

Speech bubble: Free Stock Photos.biz http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/6969

Chasm drawing http://www.silverbearcafe.com/chasm.html

Bridging the gap http://www.newdirectionsconsulting.com/2011/07/the-us-vs-them-mentality-bridging-the-gap-between-operation-administration/

Gran A’Tuin: Kyudomugen http://kyudomugen.deviantart.com/art/Gran-A-Tuin-209451068