LODLAM: Fostering Global Collaboration & CommunitySemantic Web in Libraries

Cologne, Germany27 November 2012

Jon VossHistorypin Strategic Partnerships Director

We Are What We Dojon.voss@wearewhatwedo.org

@jonvoss@historypinhistorypin.com

1. Potential

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohiouniversitylibraries/3485066089/

http://www.evolutionoftheweb.com

http://mashupbreakdown.com

The DJ in the Library?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecocentrik/3349141618/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/liquidsunshine49/3084307107/

The DJ in the Library?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/d2s/8026434642http://www.flickr.com/photos/d2s/8026439552

2. Disparate Beginnings

3. Early Use Cases

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

photos by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE, TED

• 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://dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation/

#fail

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4. Defining the Field

Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums#LODLAM

http://lodlam.net

5. Pulling Together

LODLAM Goals- identification of tools and techniques for publishing- drafting of precedents and policy for licensing and copyright of metadata- definitions and use cases to promote LODLAM internally

LODLAM Immediate Outcomes- importance of getting together: SWIB, W3C, Sem Web, GLAMs- tools for evangilization- promote licensing for reuse of metadata (4-star Classification Scheme)

6. Widening the Circle

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

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SemTech2011 (SF)

Society of American Archivists 2011 (Chicago)

1st Int’l Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives (Berlin)

Linked Data in Libraries 2011 (London)

SWIB11 (Hamburg)

Museum Computer Network ’11 (Atlanta)

SWIB11 (Hamburg)

National Digital Forum (Wellington, NZ)

Museums and the Web 2012 (San Diego)

Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2011 (Baltimore)

ALA 2011 Annual Meeting (New Orleans)

ALA 2011 MidwinterMeeting (Dallas)

ALA 2012 Annual Meeting (Anaheim)

SemTech2012 (SF)

SemTech2011 (SF)

Society of American Archivists 2011 (Chicago)

1st Int’l Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives (Berlin)

Linked Data in Libraries 2011 (London)

SWIB11 (Hamburg)

Museum Computer Network ’11 (Atlanta)

SWIB11 (Hamburg)

National Digital Forum (Wellington, NZ)

Museums and the Web 2012 (San Diego)

Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2011 (Baltimore)

ALA 2011 Annual Meeting (New Orleans)

ALA 2011 MidwinterMeeting (Dallas)

ALA 2012 Annual Meeting (Anaheim)

SemTech2012 (SF)

SemTech2011 (SF)

Society of American Archivists 2011 (Chicago)

1st Int’l Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives (Berlin)

Linked Data in Libraries 2011 (London)

SWIB11 (Hamburg)

Museum Computer Network ’11 (Atlanta)

SWIB11 (Hamburg)

National Digital Forum (Wellington, NZ)

Museums and the Web 2012 (San Diego)

Digital Library Federation Fall Forum 2011 (Baltimore)

ALA 2011 Annual Meeting (New Orleans)

ALA 2011 MidwinterMeeting (Dallas)

ALA 2012 Annual Meeting (Anaheim)

SemTech2012 (SF)

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_use_for_data

2010–2012

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7. Beyond the Hype

Publishers

Users & Makers

Aggregators

Publishers

Aggregators

Users & Makers

http://invisibleaustralians.org/faces/

Help?

8. Staying O! the Ground

SWIB11 (Hamburg)

http://www.canadiana.ca/en/pcdhn-lod

http://openmetadatapathway.blogspot.com

http://openmetadatapathway.blogspot.com

http://openmetadatapathway.blogspot.com

SWIB11 (Hamburg)

http://timwray.net/2011/12/canvas/

SWIB11 (Hamburg)

http://discontents.com.au/words/conference-papers/small-stories-in-a-big-data-world

9. Summit 2013

http://summit2013.lodlam.net/challenge/

10. Potential

vimeo.com/44801709