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The world’s libraries. Connected.

Linked Data at OCLC

Roy Tennant

Senior Program Officer

ALA Midwinder, January 2013

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Virtual International Authority File (VIAF)http://viaf.orgHTML, RDF/XML

Dewey Decimal Classificationhttp://dewey.infoHTML/RDFa, RDF/XML, Turtle, JSON - SPARQL

FAST: Faceted Application of Subject Terminologyhttp://id.worldcat.org/fastHTML, RDF/XML - Download

OCLC Linked Data Resources

The world’s libraries. Connected.

• WorldCat.org (all books and journal titles)

• Schema.org + Library extensions

• Embedded RDFa

• Links to: Dewey, LCSH, LCNAF, DOI, VIAF,

FAST

• License: ODC-BY

• Experimental - June 2012

OCLC Linked Data Resources

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

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

• Short lived group• Libraries, Publishers, Consumers, System Vendors, Linked Data, Standards Bodies• Library is only one focus

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Use of Our Linked Data

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Challenges

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Data Modeling Well is Not TrivialData Modeling Well is Not Trivial

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Our Data Isn’t Always Easily Shareable

Our Data Isn’t Always Easily Shareable

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Playing Well With Others is Not Always Easy

Playing Well With Others is Not Always Easy

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Roy Tennant

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tennantr@oclc.org

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