Linked data for Ebook discovery

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Ebooks 2013 - 9 May 2013

Richard WallisTechnology EvangelistOCLC

@rjw

DiscoveryLinked Data ForEBook


Linked Data ForDiscovery


Discovery


the only show in town?

is

Discovery

Where are our users?

Where are our users?

Where our users are!



Romain Wenz BnF

Libraries Archives Museums


The place to gofor information


The place to gofor information

not any more!

Knowledge Graph

THINGS NOT STRINGS

Knowledge Graph

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldformylens/6537249151/

Hmmm..




What do we do?Hmmm..




What do we do?

Talk their language

Hmmm..




What do we do?

Talk their language

Linked Data..

Hmmm..




What do we do?

Be of the Web!

Talk their language

Linked Data..



@Fascinatingpics

@Fascinatingpics

@Fascinatingpics

@Fascinatingpics


Linked Data


• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions

Linked Data


• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions• Embedded RDFa

Linked Data


• 290+ Million resources• Schema.org + Extensions• Embedded RDFa• Links to: Dewey, LCSH

LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST

Linked Data



LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST• License: ODC-BY

Linked Data



LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST• License: ODC-BY• Experimental - June 2012

Linked Data

is

good enough ?

is

good enough ?

• For library data exchange

is

good enough ?

• For library data exchange - No

is

good enough ?


• For sharing library data with the world

- No

is

good enough ?


• For sharing library data with the world

- No

- Almost

http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex

• Short lived group

• Libraries, Publishers, Consumers, System Vendors, Linked Data, Standards Bodies

• Library is only one focus



BIBFRAME

BIBFRAME

http://bibframe.org

It is the foundation for the future of bibliographic description that happens on, in,

and as part of the web and the networked world we live in.

bibliographic descriptionas part of the web

BIBFRAME

http://bibframe.org

bibliographic description as part of the web

@Fascinatingpics

bibliographic description as part of the web

competition?

@Fascinatingpics

bibliographic description

≈ complimentary ≈

as part of the web

@Fascinatingpics


Challenges for change


as part of the web

@Fascinatingpics


• Metadata for ‘items’



as part of the web

@Fascinatingpics



• Searching for ‘works’



as part of the web

@Fascinatingpics



• Searching for ‘works’

• Materials of all types - print / e / digital



as part of the web

@Fascinatingpics

h"p://wallpapersfor.me/storm-‐beacon/

Be visibleOn the Web of Data

http://wallpapersfor.me/storm-beacon/


h"p://wallpapersfor.me/storm-‐beacon/

Be visibleOn the Web of Data

Light the way to your resources...

... registered in the network



Knowledge Graph

So, what can we do?

Stop Copying

Stop Copying

Start Linking

Be of the Webof Data

We are moving fromcataloguing

We are moving fromcataloguing

to

h"p://catalinkingEric Miller -‐ Zepheira

Happening in a hurry?

@Fascinatingpics


Years not decades

@Fascinatingpics


The Web will progress without us

@Fascinatingpics


Opportunity to reach for together...

@Fascinatingpics

Opportunity to reach for together ...

Opportunity to reach for together ... reassert

our role as a discoverable source

For all materialsPrint/ /Journals/Articles/DigitalEBook


Ebooks 2013 - 9 May 2013

Richard WallisTechnology EvangelistOCLC

@rjw

EBook DiscoveryLinked Data For