Presentation to the ALCTS session "International Developments in Library Linked Data: Think Globally" at the American Library Association Conference in Las Vegas - June 2014
4. edition
author location
holding
date of publication
classification
publisher
title
source
ISBN
author location
holding
classification
publisher
person place
object concept
organization work
library data:
stored as records
title
8. What’s Happening for Libraries:
SchemaBibExtend
• W3C Activity
• Schema.org Based
http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/
9. WorldCat Entities
Works
• 197+ million Work descriptions and URIs
• Schema.org
• RDF Data formats – RDF/XML, Turtle, Triples, JSON-LD
• Links to WorldCat manifestations
• Links to Dewey, LCSH, LCNAF, VIAF, FAST
• Open Data license
• Released April 2014
14. • A Technology
• Standard on the Web – RDF, URIs, Vocabularies
• Identifying 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:
Entity Based Data Architecture
Powered by Linked Data
16. … beneficial effects for libraries
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newsitem/5350
“… more than 80 per cent of these
visitors coming from search engines …”
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20. Bibliographic Entities in the Web of Data
Cataloging
Integration with the web
Cascading updates More options
Intuitive searching
21. OCLC Entity Based Data Strategy
VIAF, ISNI, FAST Publish Linked Data
WorldCat.org Linked Data Release – using Schema.org
Internal agreement on data strategy
Evangelism
Research & Design with Data Architecture Group
Data mining of WorldCat resources
WorldCat Works Released
2012
2014
Application Integration
WorldCat Discovery
Analytics
Discovery API
Cataloging
2015
More Entities Released
Person
Organization
Event
Concept
New Products
Continuing Evangelism
New Services
Continuing Innovation
2013
2016
22. Yeah – but what can I
do?• Your resources in the Web of Data
- Contribute to WorldCat
• Start linking your resources
- WorldCat Work URIs in your data
• Register institution on the web
- Schema.org – Organization/Library
- WorldCat Registry
- Schema.org across your Website(s)
• Talk to system providers / projects
- Not just a Linked Data feature
- Exposing Entities in global context
23. Explore. Share. Magnify.
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
Richard.wallis@oclc.org
@rjw
Linked Data: from Library
Entities to the Web of Data
Editor's Notes
But, what if we started to think about the information in a different way.
We, at OCLC, with our major data ingest and processing techniques – Big Data tech
Matching incoming data with what we have
Identifying the entities and associating their role attributes
Woks – not so far very visible in libraries – important on the web