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SLUB Dresden and Avantgarde Labs

June 13, 2014Lightning Talk at ELAG 2014, Bath, England

d:swarm - a Data Management andIntegration Platformhttp://dmp.slub-dresden.de

Jan Polowinski et al.

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d:swarm is an an Open Source Middleware for Data Integration

June 13, 2014

Integrated Library System

ERM Backend System A

ERM Frontend

d:swarm – Middleware for Data Integration

Frontend XDiscovery System

Web

, LO

D

LOD

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d:swarm will serve as a middle ware for the linked-data-based ERM system AMSL (UB Leipzig, AKSW)

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d:swarm – Some More Details

June 13, 2014

„Data Hub“

GUI

Configurations, Mappings,

Transformations ...

providesub-graphs

as RDF

(e.g. the current internal model)

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d:swarm as a Flexible Data Storage

June 13, 2014

d:swarm achieves the lossless integration of data from heterogeneous data sources in a flexible, graph-based data model.

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d:swarm as a Flexible Data Storage

June 13, 2014

„Data Hub“ –graph database (neo4j)

• 1 sub-graph per imported source

• special sub-graph: the internal model

• versioning and provenance information are handled

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Inspecting the Graph with the neo4j-Browser

June 13, 2014

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d:swarm as a Provider for RDF data

June 13, 2014

„Data Hub“ –graph database (neo4j)

(e.g. the current internal model)

provide sub-graphs as RDF

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d:swarm for Increasing Data Quality

June 13, 2014

d:swarm increases the quality of library data by way of deduplication, merging, FRBRization, semantic enrichment and its publication as LOD.

FRBRization ...Deduplication

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d:swarm as a Data Modelling Tool

June 13, 2014

d:swarm is a data modeling tool with a graphical and easy-to-use interface that poses no obstacles to non-programming librarians

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Graphical User Interface – Modeling Perspective

June 13, 2014

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Internal Model and Internal Schema

June 13, 2014

Can be freely constructed from concepts of multiple vocabularies

May be shared with other libraries

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d:swarm – Sharing Features

June 13, 2014

GUI

• import configurations• mappings,

transformations• internal schema

usefulmappingfor reuse

sharing with the swarm

Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fish_swarm_Loro_Parque.JPG

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Alpha release was published end of May –Help test the software

June 13, 2014ELAG 2014, Bath, England

d:swarmhttp://dmp.slub-dresden.de/en/interesse/http://dmp.slub-dresden.de/

Jan Polowinski et al.