Why schema.org for Libraries

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Richard Wallis Technology Evangelist OCLC @rjw

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Why ?

for libraries ?

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Why Catalogue ?

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Why Catalogue ?

So people can findour stuff !

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our data are not in

our data are not in

our data are not in

Why?

our data are not in

Why?does not understand:

Marc, ISBD, OAI-PMH, RDA, Z39.50, Bibframe ....

insert you favourite standard here!

Does Understand

happiness philosophy

A broad vocabulary to

describe ‘things’ on the web

WorldCat)Works)Linked)Data

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•  197+%million%Work%descrip3ons%and%URIs%•  Schema.org%•  RDF%Data%formats%–%RDF/XML,%Turtle,%Triples,%JSONKLD%

•  Links%to%WorldCat%manifesta3ons%•  Links%to%Dewey,%LCSH,%LCNAF,%VIAF,%FAST%•  Open%Data%license%•  Released%April%2014%

• June 2011: Launch of Schema.org

• June 2011: Launch of Schema.org

• June 2012: 7%-10% of crawled pages contain Schema.org markup

• June 2011: Launch of Schema.org

• June 2012: 7%-10% of crawled pages contain Schema.org markup

• Today: 15% of the Web use Schema.org

is

is

good enough ?

• For library data exchange

is

good enough ?

• For library data exchange - No

is

good enough ?

• For library data exchange

• For sharing library data with the world

- No

is

good enough ?

• For library data exchange

• For sharing library data with the world

- No

- Almost

http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex !

• Short lived group

• Libraries, Publishers, Consumers, System Vendors, Linked Data, Standards Bodies

• Library is only one focus

libraries should use

libraries should use

to describe & link resources to the web

libraries should use

to describe & link resources to the web

applying other vocabularies and standards

at the same time asat the same time as

That’s

Why

Richard Wallis Technology Evangelist OCLC @rjw

The world’s libraries. Connected.

for libraries

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