The worlds libraries. Connected. Linked Data at OCLC Roy Tennant Senior Program Officer ALA Midwinder, January 2013.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Linked Data at OCLC

Roy Tennant

Senior Program Officer

ALA Midwinder, January 2013



Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)http://viaf.orgHTML, RDF/XML

Dewey Decimal Classificationhttp://dewey.infoHTML/RDFa, RDF/XML, Turtle, JSON - SPARQL

FAST: Faceted Application of Subject Terminologyhttp://id.worldcat.org/fastHTML, RDF/XML - Download

OCLC Linked Data Resources


• WorldCat.org (all books and journal titles)

• Schema.org + Library extensions

• Embedded RDFa

• Links to: Dewey, LCSH, LCNAF, DOI, VIAF,

FAST

• License: ODC-BY

• Experimental - June 2012

OCLC Linked Data Resources




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

• Short lived group• Libraries, Publishers, Consumers, System Vendors, Linked Data, Standards Bodies• Library is only one focus









Use of Our Linked Data






Challenges


Data Modeling Well is Not TrivialData Modeling Well is Not Trivial


Our Data Isn’t Always Easily Shareable

Our Data Isn’t Always Easily Shareable


Playing Well With Others is Not Always Easy

Playing Well With Others is Not Always Easy


Roy Tennant

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