The world’s libraries. Connected. Giving Voice to Content: A New Generation of Products and Services Managing Library Collections as a Graph Feb 19, 2014 Mike Teets VP Innovation OCLC
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The world’s libraries. Connected.
Giving Voice to Content: A New Generation of Products and Services
Managing Library Collections as a Graph
Feb 19, 2014
Mike Teets
VP Innovation
OCLC
The world’s libraries. Connected.
By 2010…
A researcher can no longer read just the article titles for advancements in
their field of study
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Scribe OPACCard
CatalogWeb of
DataWeb
ratio ofdata curators to
audience
1-to-10’s
Evolution of Metadata Managementand Library Catalogs
10’s-to-1000’s
100’s-to-millions
100’s-to-
billons
100’s-to-
trillions+
The world’s libraries. Connected.
A Point on a Graph
Describes
Has Depiction
Encoded By
Encodes
Depicts
A Physical Mural
Work
Organization
Person
Place
Event
Legend
A Physical Photograph
A JPEG Image
Information Resource
Described By
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Another Entry Point to the Graph
Realization of
Embodiment
Has Part
Is Part
Embodiment Of
An Edition
Work
Organization
Person
Place
Event
Legend
A Physical Book
A Physical Photograph
A Creative Work
Realization
The world’s libraries. Connected.
A Physical Photograph
Owned
Organization
Photographer
Content as a Graph
Timestamp
Lat/LongCreated
Captured
Location
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Does your organization support entity views of your data?
1. No, we do not want our data presented as entities
2. We are not doing it but expect others to extract and relate entities in our databases.
3. We are actively considering projects
4. We currently publish entity views
Audience Question
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Semantic Web Obituaries…
• Yahoo Researcher Declares Semantic Web Dead
• What does the death of the semantic web mean for publishers?
• Autopsy: the death of Semantic Web Technologies
• Three reasons why the Semantic Web has failed
The world’s libraries. Connected.
July 2010
Google acquires Metaweb
Sir Tim Berners-Lee 1999 Semantic Web
“dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between
people and computers.”
The world’s libraries. Connected.
ArchiveGrid248 Million
Dewey300 Million
VIAF2 Billion
WorldCat Catalog31 Billion
WorldCat + Articles100–200 Billion
Entire Graph1–5 Trillion
OCLC Managed Data as a TripleStore
Current range of Largest Triple Stores