Presentada en el Congreso Mundial de la IFLA 2015, que tuvo lugar en Ciudad del Cabo, entre los días 15 y 21 de agosto.

1. Ricardo Santos Muñoz (Speaker)
Ana Manchado Mangas
Biblioteca Nacional de España / National Library of Spain
Daniel Vila Suero
Ontology Engineering Group
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / Technical University of Madrid
81st IFLA World Library and Information Congress – Session 207
15-21 August, Cape Town, South Africa
BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA
datos.bne.es: experimenting with LOD and FRBR
to access National Library of Spain collections

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The players
Cataloguing
Digital Library & Information
Systems
“Focus group”
LOD experts
Developers

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Datos 1.0 (2011)
Publish data according to IFLA models and vocabularies: FRBR, ISBD
PRIMARY GOAL:
CONTENT:
2.4 millions bib records (ancient and modern monographs,
printed music and sound recordings) and authority records
AVAILABILITY:
Datadumps and Sparql end-point access
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Developers, LOD experts, data consumers

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Datos 2.0 (2014)
PRIMARY GOAL:
CONTENT:
AVAILABILITY:
Human interface, Sparql end-point access and other services
Build an innovative gateway to collections, profiting from Linked Data
technology and FRBR model
Almost all the catalogue (except serials and items), access to digital
objects
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Common users, researchers, reference librarians

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Datos 2.0 (2014)
MAIN FEATURES:
Allow users to experiment with new ways of discovering resources
Covering nearly all the resources in the library
Access to digitized content
Data enriched and linked to outside sources
FRBR as a model of reference
Resources to be discovered and accessed straight from Google
Resources described with BNE ontology

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Datos 2.0: front-end
A BRAND NEW CATALOGUE!!!
MULTI-DEVICE RESPONSIVE!!!
ENTITY-DRIVEN SEARCH!!!
FULLY ENRICHED AND LINKED!!!
FRBR-BASED SEARCH RESULTS RANKING!!!
LIVE DEMO
(FINGERS CROSSED)

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An FRBR flavour
FRBR/FRAD ENTITIES:
Persons / Corporate Bodies
WORKs
Expressions
Manifestations
Datos 1.0  FRBR as a data model
Datos 2.0  FRBR as a reference model
Authority records
Bibliographic records

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FRBR links building
Expression
manifested
Expression of Work
Author of Work

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FRBR links building
Expression
manifested
http://datos.bne.es/version/XX2135693eng

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datos.bne.es: the making-of
MARC21 data extracted
and analyzed
Mapping 1: assigning data
to WEM entities
Mapping 2: relating
entities
Mapping 3: Properties’
annotation
Publication pipeline

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DATOS 1.0
Struggling with FRBR
Data that could not be linked was ignored
Solid data model, but huge data loss

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DATOS 1.0DATOS 2.0
Creator
bne:OP5002
Contributor
bne:OP3005
has relation
bne:3008
has subject
bne:7001
Struggling with FRBR
No data loss, but FRBR loopholes
The “missing works” affair
Expressions as mere facets?

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BIBO
RDA
Ontology
DATOS 1.0
BNE data
ISBD FRBR
FRSAD
FRAD
DATOS 2.0
BNE data
BNE ontology
Alignments
SKOS/ MADS for Subjects

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Behind the scenes
MARiMbA
Data (Marc)
Data analysis
Mapping & sorting
Linked Data generation
Data
generation
Publication
pipeline
Indexing
Double storing
Front-end
Triple store
Ranking based in FRBR
relationships
No data transformation made after generation
Schema.org annotations in every entity html page
Post processing
Linking
Enrichment

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Other [LOD] services
 SPARQL end-point
 Search API
 Content negotiation
In development:
Extended API
Dumps

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Outcomes
datos.bne.es as:
Source for data consuming applications
Intermediate source of data
Expert
users
Reference tool
Integrating device Librarians
New ways to access and discover
resources
Access from search engine results
Common
users

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Internet exposure
People coming straight from search engine results
Specially in the “long tail” resources

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Internet exposure :
contents

- Hidden resources made visible. (You got
pictures of my town!!, That’s the weird out-of-
print issue I’ve been looking for!!)
- Errors warning
 
- Misconceptions about services (I want to buy
/ download this item !!!)
- False expectations.

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Internet exposure :
people

- Hey¡ That’s me on the Internet!. Do you want
more data? Do you want more of my books?
- I know that author!!!. Do you want more data?
 
- Hey¡ That’s me on the Internet!. And I don’t
want to be on the Internet!!!!

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FRBR for users
Useful for:
- Grouping related things
- As a general model for stablishing relationships
Lessons learned:
- Use FRBR, don’t talk FRBR.
- Simple relationships are harder to explain.

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To be continued
Content
Entities
Relationships
Data sources
Data enrichment
Entities descriptions
Catalogue procedures
Search capabilities
Ontology alignments
LOD services & documentation

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Pº de Recoletos 20-22
28071 Madrid
España
T +34 915 807 800
www.bne.es
Ricardo Santos Muñoz
Technical Processes Department
National Library of Spain
ricardo.santos@bne.es
Many thanks for your attention