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Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the WebUS National Archives

Chevy Chase, MDJanuary 22, 2013

Jon VossHistorypin Strategic Partnerships Director

We Are What We Dojon.voss@wearewhatwedo.org

@jonvoss@historypinhistorypin.com

Jon, we archive things so thatpeople can find them...

Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums#LODLAM

Culture Technology Law

New ParadigmMaking This A Reality

Culture Technology Law

http://mashupbreakdown.com

The DJ in the Archives?

History and Mashup Culture2010 National Archives Photo Contest

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History and Mashup CultureNARA mashup on Historypin

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37377809@N00/5304492185/in/pool-1633053@N21/

Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway

http://oldsf.org

http://pastmapper.com

http://shawnclover.com

http://pinterest.com/ArtPictureNYPL/new-york-city/

http://ghostsofdc.org/

LawCulture Technology Law

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasjwoods-com/2264301251

Going from Tables to Graphs

Going from Tables to GraphsNodes and links in a graph

msulibraries lookbackmaps

msulibraries internetarchive

msulibraries librarycongress

lookbackmaps internetarchive

internetarchive librarycongress

Going from Tables to GraphsAs computing power increases, the ability to build more and more complex graphs becomes a reality.

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Introducing TriplesNodes and Links

• Quite simply: Subject, Predicate, Object

• gives us the ability to describe entities in a way that is machine readable

jonvoss USNatArchives

http://inkdroid.org/ehs.rdf

What do we know about the person: Ed Summers (aside from the fact that he rocks)?

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Bio: Hacker for libraries, digital archaeologist, pragmatist.

Triples for machines

• Triples can be serialized in many di!erent ways, including Resource Description Framework, RDF/XML, RDFa, N3, Turtle, etc, but they all describe things in the <subject><predicate><object> format.

• Of course, we need to be consistent and predictable for machines to understand us.

• We need to follow simple rules and protocols

http://inkdroid.org/ehs.rdf

• Consider graph demo: http://civilwardata150.net

• Civil War vocabulary, or a way to link and traverse across datasets• Regiments, Battles, Places

• Building apps that use this data

http://conflicthistory.com

http://conflicthistory.com

http://conflicthistory.com

https://www.smalldemons.com

New Tools Enabling Better Sharing

Culture Technology Law

Metadata vs. data, assets, digital surrogates, images

CC BY

Open Data

CC0

Public Domain Mark

Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)Attribution License (ODC-By)Open Database License (ODC-ODbL)

Legal Tools

CC BY-SA

Open (ish)

Published (NOT OPEN) Data

Legal Tools

CC BY-ND

CC BY-NC

CC BY-NC-ND

CC BY-NC-SA

Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums#LODLAM

Culture Technology Law

You’re not alone...

2010

British LibraryStanford University University of MichiganOpen LibraryCERN

VIAFID.LOC.GOV

W3C LLD

The Linked Data cloud as a whole grew by 300% in

2010...

...whereas the amount of data

relevant for libraries grew by nearly

1000%

http://swib.org/swib11/

Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums#LODLAM

http://lodlam.net

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San Francisco, DC, Atlanta, London, Wellington, New York, Canberra, Melbourne, St. Louis

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http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_use_for_data

2011–2012

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003653763/marc/

Who’s got next?

Join the LODLAM movementresources and community on http://lodlam.netask for help on Google Group or #lodlam on Twitterhttp://openglam.orghttp://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

Contribute! Start small, but START

Google Refinehttp://freeyourmetadata.org

Google Refinehttp://freeyourmetadata.org

vimeo.com/44801709

Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the WebUS National Archives

Chevy Chase, MDJanuary 22, 2013

Jon VossHistorypin Strategic Partnerships Director

We Are What We Dojon.voss@wearewhatwedo.org

@jonvoss@historypinhistorypin.com