Deus Ex Machina: is linked data the answer?

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National Library of ScotlandLeabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba

deus ex machina

is there a library shaped hole in the web?16 October 2015

is linked data the answer?

Gill HamiltonDigital Access Manager

• about the Library and me• our modest experiments• Top Tips for preparing for LOD• is linked data the answer?

I’ll be looking at ….

National Library of Scotland by Ross G Strachan

All images CC-BY National Library of Scotland

The Way Forward PDF

Image CC-BY Gill Hamilton

• if I learned one thing it is …• dabbling in the DOD• The 3Rs

our experiments

LOD? Oh yeah I geddit!

Errr… no I don’t gedditAh that’s right …

Errr…

Images CC-BY Gill Hamilton

What the hell is?

SKOS RDF triple

Store URI SPARQLOWL TURTLE XSLT

Images CC=BY Gill Hamilton and God divides heaven … Public Domain

oh no!Oh No!OH NO!HELP!

Images CC-BY Gill Hamilton and God divides heaven … Public Domain

Och!Dinnae fash

yersel!

Images CC-BY Gill Hamilton and God divides heaven … Public Domain

you and I know it already …we call it interoperability

ye olden days

BM rules

collaboration

CL0SED

Openvocs

dabbling in the DODis there a library shaped hole in the web?16 October 2015

http://www.math.uh.edu/~tomforde/images/UniverseAndMan.jpgAll images CC-BY National Library of Scotland

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• went to school to learn RDF• tried mapping our data to DC Terms• tried to discover URIs• created RDF for a single resource• published the DOD element set

RDA (and FRBR) [link]

RIMMF [link]

The 3Rs

Images CC-BY Gill Hamilton

1. strings and things2. be smart, not dumb3. uniqueness….. and some more

Top Tips

Top Tip 1

we have strings“Hamilton, Gill”

but we need things toowe need URIs

THE BIGISSUE

machines are really stupid

Main catalogue Archive catalogue Moving image catalogue

Hamilton, Gill W. Hamilton, Gillian W. Hamilton, G. W.

you are really really smart

machines are really stupid

you are really really smart

s – ©

s – P

Wikicom

mons – CC-BY-SA Trollderella

record just 1 more thing

the URIc’est tout!

stop digging

and … you might

be lucky

Fingers Crossed by ~dgies CC-BY-NC-ND

Get others to helpWe think this cathedral’s in

Cambrai

Or do you think

Cambrai is here?

Do you think

Cambrai is here?

Top Tip 2

Frankly my dear! I don’t give a

damn about your domain

Never, EVER dumb your data

WikiCommons - © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

DODdata

structure DOD.title DOD.keywordDOD.who

local & closed global & openXSLT

LOD in DC

DC:titleDC:subjectDC:creator

Image CC-BY Gill Hamilton

DODdata

local & closed

global & open

DOD in LOD

structure DOD.titleDOD.keyword DOD.who

MAPPING

SCHEMA

National Library of Scotland’s DOD RDF element set at Open Metadata Registry

Top Tip 3

concentrate on the unique

Order to Capt. Campbell by Maj. Duncanson

You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebells, the McDonalds of Glencoe, and put all to the sword under seventy.

uniqueness is aboutmaking the BEST use of limited

resourcesmaking the BEST contribution

making BEST metadata for LOD

1. record URIs2. don’t dumb the data3. work on unique stuff….. and some more

Top Tips

the other tips

ZEROCC 0

openly licence your metadata

LCNAFLCSHTGMI

AATTGN

DDC … soon?

http://id.loc.gov/

http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/

use open vocabularies

Library of Congress by The Agency CC-BY-SA

OCLC Building by Matkatamiba CC-BY-SA

Getty Institute by Pbjamesphoto CC-BY-SA

DEMAND better systems

Uncle Sam by James Montgomery Flag - Public domain

So is linked data the answer?

Well maybe …

it’s risky!not convincingbut it’s worth the risk

Gill HamiltonDigital Access Manager

g.hamilton@nls.uk

NationalLibraryofScotland@natlibscot

thank you

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