Presented at #mashspa, Bath, October 29, 2010. http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/mashspa/

1. University library
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Lukas Koster
Library Systems Coordinator
Library of the University of Amsterdam
l.koster@uva.nl
http://twitter.com/lukask

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University library
Personal background
 Sociology
 Software designer and developer
 Libraries: Ex Libris stuff
 Library of the University of Amsterdam
 ‘System librarian’?
 Head of Library Systems Department
 Library Systems Coordinator
 Shambrarian
 I blog http://commonplace.net
 I don’t like MARC

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University library
The Dutch situation
 University libraries (13)
 “Professional school” libraries
 Royal (national) library
 Public libraries
 Special libraries
 Research libraries
 …
 We work
together
 We don’t work
together

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The Dutch situation
 Mashups
 Depends on individual situations
 Library systems
 Staff
 Management
 Attitude
 Linked data
 ??
 The European Library - Europeana

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The Dutch situation
 Large Library 2.0
community
 Web 2.0
 Social media
 Front end
 Public libraries
 Widgets
http://bibliotheek20.ning.com/

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The Dutch situation
 No mashup events
 “Happe.Ning”s
 June 4, 2010 – Haarlem
 Location, FourSquare, Mobile,
Maps, Flickr, Video blogging
 http://www.lukaskoster.net/2010/06/happe-ning-in-haarlem/
 Next: November 19, 2010 –
Leeuwarden
 Streaming music

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The Linked Open Data Project - partners
 DEN – Digital Heritage Foundation of
The Netherlands
 Digital standards for heritage institutions
 Promoting linked open data: museums, etc.
 Simple guidelines
 UBA – Library of the University of
Amsterdam
 TIN – Theater Institute of The
Netherlands

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The Linked Open Data Project - Objectives
 Set an example
 Proof of concept
 Pilot
 Convince heritage institutions
 Convince TIN, UBA management
Dutch Culture Link

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The Linked Open Data Project – 2 viewpoints
Publish
Use

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The TIN Collection
 Theater performances
 Metadata
 Digital objects
 Audio
 Video
 Images
 Photos

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The UBA OPAC
 Metadata
 Bibliographic
 MARC

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The TIN Collection Data model

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The TIN Collection Data model

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FRBR?
 Work
 Expression
 Manifestation
 Item
 Play
 Production
 Production
 Performance
(translation?)
 Play
 Translation
 Edition
 Copy

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Questions….
 Which vocabulary/ontology?
 How to implement RDF?
 How to format URIs?
 Which tools, techniques, languages?
 How to find/get published linked data?
 How to process retrieved linked data?

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Training
 Lots of sites, tutorials on line
 Training: no money
 DANS Linked Open Data workshop

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Quick and dirty
 TIN
 URIs for data entities
 JSON
 UBA
 JavaScript: construct TIN URI
 Process JSON
 Present data in record
AGILE!

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TIN
 URI
 <base-url>/person/<personname>
 <base-url>/play/<personname>/<title>
 <base-url>/production/<personname>/<title>/<opening>
 <base-url>/performance/<personname>/<title>/<opening>/<datetime>
 …
Ad Aerts

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TIN – URI + JSON Example
 <base-url>/person/Beckett, Samuel
jsonTIN({
"key":"beckett, samuel",
"name":"Beckett, Samuel",
"birth.country":"Ierland",
"birth.date":" 1906*",
"birth.place":"Foxrock",
"death.date":"1989-12-22",
"death.place":"Parijs"
})

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UBA OPAC
<base-url>/person/Beckett, Samuel

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UBA – JavaScript: create URI
Roxana Popistaşu

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UBA – JavaScript: process JSON

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UBA OPAC results

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Is this linked data?
 Not yet……

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Next steps - TIN
 Vocabulary for Production/Performance subject area
 Vocabularies for Persons (FOAF?), Subjects (SKOS?)
 RDF in JSON (internal relationships)
 Publish RDF/XML
 More URIs
 External links
 Content negotiation
 Add digital objects

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Next steps - UBA
 More “search” fields (Title)
 Extend presentation
 Include relations
 Clickable

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TIN – Extra URIs: person + plays(productions?)

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TIN – Extra URIs: productions

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TIN – Extra URIs: specific production

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Finally
 Reverse stuff
 Publish UBA
bibliographic metadata
as linked data
 Get UBA linked data
into TIN results

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Issues
 Use generic, really unique URIs
 Person: id’s (VIAF?)
 Plays: id’s?
 Central mapping authority
 UBA OPAC person (OCLC PPN) = TIN person
 Digital material
 Copyright