Alabibframe update-em-20140126

Linked Data and Libraries

Library of Congress BIBFRAME Update Forum ALA Midwinter

Philadelphia, PA, USE January 26, 2014

!Eric Miller

em@zepheira.com

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Most of the Web is…

• Pages and links

• Designed for direct human consumption

• Simple linking (“points at”)

• Data is hidden

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!A significant gap between what browsers and

humans see!

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• Human readable

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• Machine readable

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Linked Data"a term used to describe a recommended best

practice for exposing, sharing, and

connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic

Web using URIs and RDF."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data

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Act 1 Building Blocks and #BIBFRAME Profiles

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BIBFRAME !!Core model for defining Web control points for more effective sharing, navigation and collaboration

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Common Model for creating Web Data!

BIBFRAME Approach• Identify functional descriptive requirements among various stakeholders

• Balance the creative tensions between descriptive needs of past and future

• Recognize there is no “done”, but rather an evolving process

• Define a high level Linked Data content / carrier model (simple things be simple, complex things be possible)

• Create Web Identifiers of “Nouns” and “Verbs”

• Under specify the shared Schema

• Provide a light weight means of constraining the option space to support specific individual, community needs

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BIBFRAME Profiles are a sharable blueprint (from simple to complex) that

support a specific communities descriptive need!

Act 2 Examples

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Demo!

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Linked Services as Library Commons

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Act 3 Benefits, near term opportunities

and lessons learned

An example of a new kind of “Workflow” on Web

Linked Data Analytics

Conclusion• BIBFRAME profiles represent a means for projecting local

meaning into a common framework based on global standards

• A means for using only the portion of BIBFRAME you need

• Relaxes assumption to wait on “final” vocabulary

• BIBFRAME Editor is designed to help ground the discussions

• A means for accelerating BIBFRAME experimentation

• Implementation is early, but results are incredibly promising

Disclaimer

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No Lego was harmed during the

creation of this presentation!

Thank youFor more information about BIBFRAME in general

! http://bibframe.org/

!If you have any more specific questions, or would like to be

kept informed about detailed components of this work !

http://zepheira.com/alamw14 !

Eric Miller em@zepheira.com

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