Talk given by Raphaëlle Lapôtre, BnF, during the RecsysFR meetup on October 6th 2016.

1. What can bring library
metadata to the web ?
Trust, links and love.
Raphaëlle Lapôtre
French national Library
data.bnf.fr

2. Attention economy
Limited human look Limitless source of information

3. Recommendation
systems
Faceted
classifications
Two kinds of economic philosophy...

4. Two ways of expressing value in
information
EntitiesLinks

5. Data modelling

6. Data.bnf.fr Date (2K)
(116K)
Place
(2M)Author (183K)Concept
Work
(620K)

7. Archives et
Manuscrits
Library of
Congress
VIAF Dbpedia
Wikidata

8. The good news...
...is that you can reuse our
metadata.

9. ...The question is, why
would you want to use
library metadata ?

10. Institutional weight

11. Validation process

12. Benchmarking

13. One use case : Named
Entity Recognition

14. Classification
"[Jim]Person bought 300 shares of [Acme Corp.]Organization in
[2006]Time"

15. Linking
<ENTITY url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_I._Jordan">
Michael Jordan </ENTITY> is a professor at
<ENTITY url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley
Berkeley </ENTITY>

16. And may be... recommendation !

17. Trust, links and love...
Thank you for your attention !