Linked Data : Cataloguing and a World Wide Web of Data

Linked data :cataloguing and a world wide web of data

UCL Library Services Staff Conference 2014

11 July 2014

Thomas Meehan

t.meehan@ucl.ac.uk

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

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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> .

Editing Catalogue Records Data

http://bibframe.org/tools/editor/

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

t.meehan@ucl.ac.uk