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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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 ?
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.)
Dowload the full dump: http://data.bnf.fr/semanticweb
Easy to reuse?
Moderador
Notas de la presentación
Masse de données suffisante pour couvrir des champs multiples du secteur cultutrel ; des auteurs liés à peu d’œuvres mais pour lequels peu d’information pertinente est disponible sur le web. Exquemelin Christine de Pisan
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