8. Bri6sh
Library
German
Na6onal
Library
French
Na6onal
Library
Swedish
Na6onal
Library
Open
Linked
Data
-‐
Silos
Behind
A
Vocabulary
Barrier
Library
Linked
Data
9. A
general
purpose
vocabulary
for
describing
things
on
the
web
y
• Linked
Data
• Embedded
in
HTML
• RDFa,
Microdata,
JSON-‐LD
• Descrip6ve
data
• Ac6ve
links
"15%
of
the
Web"
10. Why
Catalog?
So
we
can
find
things
Why
Share
on
the
Web?
So
today’s
users
can
find
our
things
13. Günter Grass
Born:
16
October
1927
Gdańsk,
Poland
German
novelist,
poet,
playwright,
illustrator,
graphic
ar6st,
sculptor
and
recipient
of
the
1999
Nobel
Prize
in
Literature.
Works
Subjects
Quotes
Find
Günter
Grass
works
at:
Libraries
near
me
|
Online
Retailers
Germany
|
German
literature
|
Historical
fic6on
War
stories
|
Black
humor
|
Fantasy
“Even
bad
books
are
books
and
therefore
sacred.”—
The
Tin
Drum
14. Günter Grass
Born:
16
October
1927
Gdańsk,
Poland
German
novelist,
poet,
playwright,
illustrator,
graphic
ar6st,
sculptor
and
recipient
of
the
1999
Nobel
Prize
in
Literature.
Works
Subjects
Quotes
Find
Günter
Grass
works
at:
Libraries
near
me
|
Online
Retailers
Germany
|
German
literature
|
Historical
fic6on
War
stories
|
Black
humor
|
Fantasy
“Even
bad
books
are
books
and
therefore
sacred.”—
The
Tin
Drum
MARC
RECORD
15. Data
from
one
converted
record
does
not
an
en9ty
make
Transforma6on
into
Linked
Data
is
just
a
beginning
…
• Mine
and
analyse
the
aggregate
• Iden6fy,
map,
merge
-‐
evidence
based
• Relate
to
external
sources
• Establish
the
en66es
Ge[ng
from
here
to
there
16.
17.
18.
19.
20. En66es
and
library
workflows
Discovery
The Name of the Rose
Summary:
The
year
is
1327.
Franciscans
in
a
wealthy
Italian
abbey
are
suspected
of
heresy,
and
Brother
William
of
Baskerville
arrives
to
inves6gate.
His
delicate
mission
is
suddenly
overshadowed
by
seven
bizarre
deaths
that
take
place
in
seven
days
and
nights
of
apocalyp6c
terror.
Subjects
Borrowing
OpPons
eBooks
|
Printed
Books
|
Audio
Books
Other
Languages
Monas6c
libraries
-‐-‐
Italy
–
Fic6on
|
Semio6cs
-‐-‐
Fic6on
21. • A
Technology
• Standard
on
the
Web
–
RDF,
URIs,
Vocabularies
• Iden6fying
and
Linking
resources
on
the
Web
• Important
powerful
enabling
technology
• But
only
a
technology…
for
the
systems
folks
to
worry
about
• Real
benefits
flow
from:
En6ty
Based
Data
Architecture
Powered
by
Linked
Data
22. A
general
purpose
vocabulary
for
describing
things
on
the
web
y
• Linked
Data
• Embedded
in
HTML
• RDFa,
Microdata,
JSON-‐LD
• Descrip6ve
data
• Ac6ve
links
23. OCLC
En6ty
Based
Data
Strategy
ü VIAF,
ISNI,
FAST
Publish
Linked
Data
ü WorldCat.org
Linked
Data
Release
–
using
Schema.org
ü Data
mining
of
WorldCat
resources
ü WorldCat
Works
Released
–
using
Schema.org
ü Schema.org
added
to
VIAF
RDF
ü WorldCat
Discovery
API
Returns
Schema.org
RDF
(Beta)
2012
2014
Ø ApplicaPon
IntegraPon
Ø WorldCat
Discovery
Ø Analy6cs
Ø Discovery
API
Ø Cataloging
2015
Ø More
EnPPes
Released
Ø Person
Ø Organiza6on
Ø Event
Ø Concept
Ø New
Products
Ø ConPnuing
Evangelism
Ø New
Services
Ø ConPnuing
InnovaPon
2013
2016
2010
24. Many great LD Projects
If
users
can't
discover
our
resources
What
is
the
point?
25. Linked
Data
in
Libraries
Richard
Wallis
Technology
Evangelist
@rjw