Semantic web at the Bibliothèque nationale de France: another French revolution. Gildas Illien
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Gildas ILLIEN, Bibliothèque nationale de France Director, Bibliographic and Digital Information Department
SEMANTIC WEB AND ARCHIVES, LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS
Fundacion Ramon Areces Madrid, April 10, 2014 Semantic Web at the
Bibliothèque nationale de France: another French
revolution?
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Our goal: We want to free our metadata from the
Library and get it INSIDE the Web
We are ready to make many sacrifices to achieve this…
Outline
Why we chose to do it What we’re doing exactly What we’ve learnt and what we’ll do
WHY WE CHOSE TO DO IT
BUDGET CUTS: To do more with less requires to do things differently – and not anymore on your own. Demonstrate more value for what you cost: a must.
LIBRARIANS :
We need to reinvent ourselves. We want to have fun. Data curators indeed?
USERS:
Library catalogues are not so popular (where they ever?). But where did our users go? - on the Web.
Motivations
OPPORTUNITIES: The Open Data policy movement The Linked data technologies = opportunities to remind policy makers that libraries exist!
Be more visible Have search engines (and users!) find our resources even if they don’t know the Library exists Be more consistent Improve discovery and unity of our resources scattered all over various silos Be less expensive yet more generous Be part of the new data economy Link get and get linked to other trustful datasets Focus on our added value
Be more useful Revisit our national bibliographic mission Encourage and demonstrate better reuse of our data
What we want from our metadata
WHAT WE’RE DOING EXACTLY
Data.bnf.fr : The project
Agile development method, with Logilab A small but smart team Open source code: CubicWeb
Milestones: 2009: conception and kick off 2011 : proof of concept 2012 : 10% of our catalogues 2013 : 20% of our catalogues 2014: 40% of our catalogues 2015: 80% of our catalogues ?
Web pages for people
Matching - Clustering
Archives and manuscripts
Raw data for machines
External links : Dbpedia, Wikipedia, Geonames, ISNI
VIAF, DNB, Library of Congress…
Other resources : bibliographies web archives Virtual exhibitions…
Data.bnf.fr: Baseline
It’s OPEN
Technically
Legally
January 2014: BnF officially released all its metadata under a CC-by licence
It’s LINKED
URIs based on ARK identifiers http://data.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb119374933 Resource Description Framework (143 773 998 triples) Download the page ; content
negociation Dumps on the page
http://data.bnf.fr/semanticweb Now being tested inside the BnF :
SPARQLenpoint
DATA MODEL, ALIGNMENTS
DEMO
Théophile Gautier : Voyage en Espagne https://www.google.com/search?q=gautier+voyage+en+espagne&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:fr:official&client=firefox-a http://www.bing.com/search?q=gautier+voyage+en+espagne&pc=MOZI&form=MOZSBR http://fr.search.yahoo.com/search?p=gautier+voyage+en+espagne&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35 Other examples « Jacquemart Gielée » (poète XIIIe s.) « Thomas Cajetan » (théologien XVe s.) « Jacques de Révigny » (juriste XIIIe s.)
People, Places, Dates…
Link to the place Madrid : http://data.bnf.fr/lieu/madrid__espagne_/ Link to the date 1562 : http://data.bnf.fr/date/1562/ then to the century
Performance: Cleopatra, Theatro Real, 1921
http://data.bnf.fr/41375196/cleopatra_spectacle_1921/
Dowload a page: Télécharger chaque page
Dowload the full dump: http://data.bnf.fr/semanticweb
Easy to reuse?
WHAT WE’VE LEARNT
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20.000
40.000
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80.000
100.000
120.000
140.000
Number of unique visitors
Facts and figures: so far, it works!
73 % are consulting the catalogues and Gallica (2013)
70 % come from search engines, 10 % from links (2013)
http://www.ifverso.com/fr/content/robur-le-conquerant-14 http://www.rechercheisidore.fr/
http://www.fevis.com
They use our data: Examples
http://data.abuledu.org
Wikimedia France Wikidata
data.bnf.fr Catalogues de la BnF
(http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12130221r)
Catalogue de bibliothèque publique
(http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12130221r)
OpenCat
Compléments bibliographiques
(indexation de la fiction, catégories, genres)
Couvertures Documents numérisés (texte, manuscrits, sons, images)
Portraits
Données locales (cote, disponibilité, indexation)
Auteurs, sujets (« autorités ») Informations bibliographiques (groupées par œuvres)
Compléments biographiques
Conférences en ligne
Autres contenus BnF (expositions virtuelles, conférences)
Autres contenus web
WHAT WE’LL DO
Scaling up
Coming soon: from 280 000 to 1.3 million authors
Issues with: Architecture and performance Design and ergonomy Service Staff
Aligning with more people
Reaching out the right communities In and out libraries Publishers organizations Music organizations Performing Arts Geodata …
http://data.bnf.fr/atelier/11957478/voltaire_candide/
27 http://data.bnf.fr/atelier/11928669/voltaire/
Using data.bnf.fr As a tool for change
Retro-action to the source catalogues and data (FRBR)?
A metadata QA tool for staff?
A collection management tool?
Merci !
gildas.illien[at]bnf.fr agnes.simon[at]bnf.fr data@bnf.fr
Plan B
Page about the author Averroès http://data.bnf.fr/12013155/averroes/ Image and biography from Wikipedia Links to Gallica and to BnF archives and manuscripts : http://data.bnf.fr/en/documents-by-rdt/12013155/70/page1 Links to the page about Cordoba Links to the year 1126 and the 12th century
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