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Linked Data and Libraries

Special Libraries Association Doha, Qatar

March 26, 2014 !

Eric Miller [email protected]

as-salām ‘alaykum السالم عليكم

About…• Leading global services provider combining

Semantic Web technology with social computing architectures to accelerate information integration, management and collaboration.

• Pioneers in the Web.

• Provided much of the vision and technical foundation for the next generation of the Web.

• Leaders in communities for open source, open standards, collaboration across industry, government, NGOs and individuals.

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Linked Data"a term used to describe a recommended best

practice for exposing, sharing, and

connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic

Web using URIs and RDF."

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

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“The new bibliographic framework project will be focused on the Web environment, Linked Data principles and mechanisms, and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) as a basic data model. … Likewise, it is expected that the use of RDF and other W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) developments will enable the integration of library data and other cultural heritage data on the Web for more expansive user access to information.”

“Recognizing that Z39.2/MARC are no longer fit …facilitating the exchange of such [bibliographic] data both within the library community and with related communities.”

BIBFRAME“The Initiative aims to re-envision and, in the long run, implement a new bibliographic environment for libraries that makes "the network" central and makes interconnectedness commonplace.” !- Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data

Model and Supporting Services, Library of Congress, November 21, 2012 - Prepared by Zepheira

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BIBFRAME“The Initiative aims to re-envision and, in the long run, implement a new bibliographic environment for libraries that makes "the network" central and makes interconnectedness commonplace.” !- Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data

Model and Supporting Services, Library of Congress, November 21, 2012

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• robust enough to deal with 40 years ago • flexible enough to deal with 40+ years from now

BIBFRAME“The Initiative aims to re-envision and, in the long run, implement a new bibliographic environment for libraries that makes "the network" central and makes interconnectedness commonplace.” !- Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data

Model and Supporting Services, Library of Congress, November 21, 2012

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• memory organization (libraries, museums, archives) • community / users they server

BIBFRAME“The Initiative aims to re-envision and, in the long run, implement a new bibliographic environment for libraries that makes "the network" central and makes interconnectedness commonplace.” !- Bibliographic Framework as a Web of Data: Linked Data

Model and Supporting Services, Library of Congress, November 21, 2012

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• not just on the web • but of the web

MARC as “Things not Strings”

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MARC as “Things not Strings”

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BIBFRAME !!Core model for defining Web control points for more effective sharing, navigation and collaboration among memory organizations

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Descriptive Blueprint• BIBFRAME common model

- flexible, designed to accommodate the needs of our community.

• Recognize creative tension between past and future

• Profiles are a blueprint for a specific community or entity description

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Current Status• Early Experimenters

• Library of Congress, OCLC, German National Library, British Library, National Library of Medicine, George Washington University, Princeton, Zepheira

• Implementation Phase

• National Library Re-architecture

• Tools (editors, browsers, backend data services, etc.)

• BIBFRAME is relatively new, but its based on RDF which has been part of the Web for the past 10+ years

Future!

“The best way to predict your future is to create it” !!

― Abraham Lincoln!

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In the past 25 years

Conclusion• Memory organizations enable the Knowledge Based Economy

• Memory organizations can improve society

• Through facilitating knowledge curation

• Through facilitating knowledge discovery

• By becoming credibility engines for the Web

• Embrace the Web and open standards

• Reducing social, technical and organizational costs

• BIBFRAME is about weaving the best of the Web and Libraries together

Thank you!!

Eric Miller [email protected]