“Within 2 years we will make our data open.”

NLS draft digital strategy

PSIdirective

DODdata

local & closed global & open

XSLT

LOD in DC

structure tDescription.titletKeyword.keywordtWho.who

digitaldb

local & closed

global & open

digital db in LOD

digital db structure tDescription.titletKeyword.keywordtWho.who

“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn ….

… about your ontology!”

DODdata

local & closed

global & open

DOD in LOD

RDF

map

MARC

schema.org

DC

EDM

structure tDescription.titletKeyword.keywordtWho.who

ChallengesnlsThing35 hasSubject nlsSubject123nlsSubject123 hasLabel “Cantilever bridges”nlsSubject123 skos:exactMatch sh85016866

gill hamiltong.hamilton@nls.ukDigital Access ManagerNational Library of Scotland

Thanks!ReferencesNational Library of Scotland http://www.nls.uk/ Open Knowledge Foundation http://okfn.org/NLS digital collections http://digital.nls.uk/ open metadata registry http://metadataregistry.org/ NLS Scottish Screen Archive http://ssa.nls.uk/ Gone with the Wind photo http://bit.ly/16R2lOi NLS @ YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/NLofScotlandNLS @ Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/NLS @ the Data Hub http://datahub.io/dataset/nls-forthbridge NLS @ open metadata registry http://metadataregistry.org/