linked data : cataloguing and a world wide web of data
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Presentation given at UCL Library Services Staff Conference 2014, 11 July 2014.TRANSCRIPT
Linked data :cataloguing and a world wide web of data
UCL Library Services Staff Conference 2014
11 July 2014
Thomas Meehan
1. Use URIs as names for things
2. Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.
3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF, SPARQL)
4. Include links to other URIs so that they can discover more things.
Tim Berners-Lee (2006)
Linked Open Data
Brideshead Revisited was written by Evelyn Waugh.
Brideshead Revisited created by Evelyn Waugh
RDF
<http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97080492>
<http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator>
<http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79049248> .
RDF (Turtle)
@prefix lc_names: <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/> .
@prefix lc_languages: <http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/languages> .
@prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
lc_names:no97080492 dc:creator lc_names:n79049248 ;
dc:created "1945" ;
dc:extent "1 volume" ;
dc:language lc_languages:eng ;
dc:title "Brideshead revisited" ;
dc:type <http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text> .
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79049248
vs
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79049248.html
Linked Data in the Wild
BBC major events (e.g. World Cup)
Dbpedia
GeoNames
Ordnance Survey
Europeana
Common Linked Data Vocabularies
RDFS (RDF Schema) – basic data modelling
OWL (Web Ontology Language) – ontologies
SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) - thesauri
Dublin Core – cultural things
FOAF (Friend of a Friend) – people
GeoNames - places
GoodRelations – commercial things
Schema.org – anything, often embedded in web pages
Schema.org model<http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809168685> schema:creator <http://viaf.org/viaf/68937142> .
Schema.org model<http://viaf.org/viaf/68937142> schema:name "Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966" .
British Library model (used for the BNB)<http://bnb.data.bl.uk/doc/resource/015771460> dct:creator <http://bnb.data.bl.uk/id/person/WaughEvelyn1903-1966> .
British Library model (used for the BNB)
<http://bnb.data.bl.uk/id/person/WaughEvelyn1903-1966> rdfs:label "Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966" ; owl:sameAs <http://viaf.org/viaf/68937142> .
Library Linked Data in the Wild
Bibliothèque national de France
British National Bibliography
Cambridge University
European Library (includes RLUK data!)
Oslo Public Library
Swedish National Library
Library Linked Data Vocabularies
Dublin Core (again)
BIBO
RDA
BNB Data Model
Europeana Data Model
Schema.org (including Bib Extend)
BIBFRAME
Changes in Cataloguing
ISBD
|
AACR2
|
MARC
FRBR
|
RDA
|
MARC?
Changes in Cataloguing
ISBD
|
AACR2
|
MARC
FRBR
|
RDA
|
BIBFRAME?
BIBFRAME model
BIBFRAME model<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/example/cat17450240> bf:creator <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/example/v68937412> .
BIBFRAME model
<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/example/v68937412> bf:authorizedAccessPoint "Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966" ; bf:hasAuthority <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79049248> .
Going from Wikipedia to a Catalogue Search
1. “Francis Bacon” (Wikipedia)
2. http://viaf.org/viaf/31992319 (VIAF)
3. “Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626” (LC Authorities)
4. UCL Explore search
1. “Francis Bacon (artist)” (Wikipedia)
2. http://viaf.org/viaf/14789843 (VIAF)
3. “Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992” (LC Authorities)
4. UCL Explore search
University of Southampton Linked Open Data Map
http://opendatamap.ecs.soton.ac.uk/#
ReferencesBartlett, Oliver. Linked Data: Connecting together the BBC's Online Content. 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/Linked-Data-Connecting-together-the-BBCs-Online-Content
Berners-Lee, Tim., Linked Data: Design Issues. W3C, 2006.
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
Bibliothèque national de France. Semantic Web and Data Model.
http://data.bnf.fr/semanticweb
British Library. Free Data Services. Linked Open BNB.
http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/datafree.html#lod
Dbpedia.
http://dbpedia.org/About
DCMI. DCMI Terms. 2014.
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
The European Library. About The European Library datasets.
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/access
Europeana. Linked Data.
http://pro.europeana.eu/linked-open-data
FOAF Project. FOAF Documentations.
http://www.foaf-project.org/docs
GeoNames.
http://www.geonames.org/about.html
GeoNames Ontology.
http://www.geonames.org/ontology/documentation.html
Hepp, Martin. GoodRelations: the Professional Web Vocabulary for E-Commerce.
http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/
Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC). RDA Registry.
http://www.rdaregistry.info/
Kungliga biblioteket. LIBRIS-enheten. LIBRIS Available as Linked Data. 2008.
http://librisbloggen.kb.se/2008/12/03/libris-available-as-linked-data/
Library of Congress. BIBFRAME: Bibliographic Framework Initiative.
http://www.loc.gov/bibframe/
Library of Congress. LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies.
http://id.loc.gov/
Meehan, Thomas. Bookmarklet for searching catalogues from Wikipedia.
http://www.aurochs.org/aurlog/2013/03/25/bookmarklet-for-searching-catalogues-from-wikipedia/
OCLC. VIAF (Virtual Online Authority File).
http://viaf.org/
OCLC. Worldcat.
https://www.worldcat.org/
Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform.
http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/
Rekkavik, Asgeir. RDF Linked data cataloguing at Oslo Public Library. 2014.
http://digital.deichman.no/blog/2014/07/06/rdf-linked-data-cataloguing-at-oslo-public-library/
Schema.org. Schema.org.
https://schema.org/
Structured Dynamics. Bibliographic Ontology Specification. 2009.
http://bibliontology.com/
University of Cambridge. data.lib.cam.ac.uk.
http://data.lib.cam.ac.uk
University of Southampton. University of Southampton Linked Open Data Map.
http://opendatamap.ecs.soton.ac.uk/#
W3C. OWL 2 Web Ontology Language
Document Overview . 2nd Edition. 2012.
http://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-overview/
W3C. RDF Schema 1.1.
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/
W3C. RDF Working Group. RDF: Semantic Web Standards..
http://www.w3.org/RDF/
W3C. SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System.
http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/
Linked data :cataloguing and a world wide web of data
UCL Library Services Staff Conference 2014
11 July 2014
Thomas Meehan