Life after MARC: Cataloging Tools of the Future

Life After MARC:Cataloging Tools of the Future

Emily Dust NimsakontHead of Cataloging &

Resource ManagementSchmid Law Library,

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

College of LawNLA/NSLA Conference

October 16, 2015

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What is

Linked

Data?

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Wikipedia says…

“Linked Data describes a method of publishing structured data, so that it can be interlinked

and become more useful. It builds upon standard web technologies, such as HTTP and URIs - but rather than using them to serve web pages for

human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read

automatically by computers.”

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

resource

resource

resource

resource

resourcelinks to

links to

links to

links to

data links to

links to

links to

links to

data data

data

data

datadata

data

data

data

data

data

HTML

<h1>This is a heading.</h1>

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

RDF/XML

<rdf:Descriptionrdf:about="http://www.recshop.fake/cd/Empire Burlesque">

<cd:artist>Bob Dylan</cd:artist><cd:country>USA</cd:country><cd:company>Columbia</cd:company><cd:price>10.90</cd:price><cd:year>1985</cd:year>

</rdf:Description> http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_example.asp

We are used to connecting pieces of information based on their context.

Title: A Christmas CarolAuthor: Charles Dickens

Relationships are key.

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Linked Data makes the

relationships explicit (to

computers!)

subject object

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

has author

predicate

<rdf:Descriptionrdf:about="http://www.recshop.fake/cd/Empire Burlesque">

<cd:artist>Bob Dylan</cd:artist><cd:country>USA</cd:country><cd:company>Columbia</cd:company><cd:price>10.90</cd:price><cd:year>1985</cd:year>

</rdf:Description> http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_example.asp

“Just as the traditional document Web can be crawled by following hypertext links, the Web of Data can be crawled by following RDF links. Working on the crawled data, search engines can provide sophisticated query capabilities... Because the query results themselves are structured data, not just links to HTML pages, they can be immediately processed, thus enabling a new class of applications based on the Web of Data.”

Chris Bizer, Richard Cyganiak, and Tom Heath

How to Publish Linked Data on the Web

http://linkeddata.org/docs/how-to-publish

Why should librarians care

about Linked Data?

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“…the Library community’s data carrier,

MARC, is ‘based on forty-year-old

techniques for data management and is out

of step with programming styles of today.’”

“…something new is now

needed…”

“The new bibliographic framework project

will be focused on…Linked Data

principles and mechanisms…”

“A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age” http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html

BIBFRAME

Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative

http://bibframe.org

http://loc.gov/bibframe

OpenCat

http://files.dnb.de/svensson/UILLD2013/UILLD-submission-3-formatted-final.pdf

OpenCat

http://files.dnb.de/svensson/UILLD2013/UILLD-submission-3-formatted-final.pdf

Web Visibility

“When my community searches the web for something we have, we better show up as an option.”

Chuck Gibson, Director & CEO

Worthington Public Library“The Visible Library,” Library Journal Webcast, February 26, 2015

http://goo.gl/8NErmA

Library of Congress’s Summary

1. Libraries have a huge amount of identifiers

2. No other community does authorities like we do

3. We identify, structure, organize data in different ways

4. With BIBFRAME we can leverage existing Web standards make library content more visible on the Web

5. Translate MARC skills and practices into a Linked Data context

http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/bibframe/

RIMMF

RDA in Many Metadata Formats

http://www.marcofquality.com/wiki/rimmf/

RIMMF – Entity Index

BIBFRAME Editor – Zepheira Scribe

http://editor.bibframe.zepheira.com/static/

LC’s BIBFRAME Editor

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

LC’s BIBFRAME Comparison Service

http://bibframe.org/tools/compare/

MarcEdit’s MarcNext Options

http://marcedit.reeset.net/

Linked Data Options in OpenRefine

http://openrefine.org/

Questions?

Emily Dust Nimsakont

Schmid Law Library

[email protected]

http://www.slideshare.net/enimsakont