Stichting Bibliotheek.NL Publink

Employing the Dutch DBpedia for Searching and Visualising Dutch Library Data

Dimitris Kontokostas, Sebastian Hellmann23.03.2014 / LOD2 Meeting / Mannheim

About BNL

Government funded organization since 2009

Goal to provide a digital infrastructure for delivering a broad range of digital services to public libraries and their end users

Current focus on search infrastructure

BNL Publink project

2 Goals:Get a better overview of the challenges and the possibilities of converting, integrating and presenting different information sources using semantic technologies on data from the library domain.

Define requirements about: integrating index search with semantic search,

technologies and content for building a knowledge base,

data modeling (e.g. BIBFRAME, BIBO, SOBR),

the reuse of linked (open) data sources

The application stack for the linked data life cycle.

http://datalab.bibliotheek.nl