ncompass live: life after marc: cataloging tools of the future
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Life After MARC:Cataloging Tools of the Future
Emily Dust NimsakontHead of Cataloging &
Resource ManagementSchmid Law Library,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law
NCompass LiveNovember 25, 2015
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What is Linked Data?
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Wikipedia says…“Linked Data describes a method of publishing
structured data, so that it can be interlinked and become more useful. It builds upon standard web technologies, such as HTTP and
URIs - but rather than using them to serve web pages for human readers, it extends them to share
information in a way that can be read automatically by computers.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data
resource
resource
resource
resource
resource links to
links to
links to
links to
data links to
links to
links to
links to
data data
datadata
data datadata
datadata
data
data
HTML
<h1>This is a heading.</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
RDF/XML<rdf:Description
rdf:about="http://www.recshop.fake/cd/Empire Burlesque"> <cd:artist>Bob Dylan</cd:artist> <cd:country>USA</cd:country> <cd:company>Columbia</cd:company> <cd:price>10.90</cd:price> <cd:year>1985</cd:year></rdf:Description>
http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_example.asp
We are used to connecting pieces of information based on their context.
Title: A Christmas CarolAuthor: Charles Dickens
Relationships are key.
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Linked Data makes the relationships explicit (to computers!)
subject object
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
has author
predicate
<rdf:Descriptionrdf:about="http://www.recshop.fake/cd/Empire Burlesque"> <cd:artist>Bob Dylan</cd:artist> <cd:country>USA</cd:country> <cd:company>Columbia</cd:company> <cd:price>10.90</cd:price> <cd:year>1985</cd:year></rdf:Description>
http://www.w3schools.com/rdf/rdf_example.asp
“Just as the traditional document Web can be crawled by following hypertext links, the Web of Data can be crawled by following RDF links. Working on the crawled data, search engines can provide sophisticated query capabilities... Because the query results themselves are structured data, not just links to HTML pages, they can be immediately processed, thus enabling a new class of applications based on the Web of Data.”
Chris Bizer, Richard Cyganiak, and Tom HeathHow to Publish Linked Data on the Web
http://linkeddata.org/docs/how-to-publish
Why should librarians care about Linked Data?
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“…the Library community’s data carrier, MARC, is ‘based on forty-year-old techniques for data management and is out of step with programming styles of today.’”
“…something new is now needed…”
“The new bibliographic framework project will be focused on…Linked Data principles and mechanisms…”
“A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age” http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-103111.html
BIBFRAMEBibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
http://bibframe.org
http://loc.gov/bibframe
OpenCat
http://files.dnb.de/svensson/UILLD2013/UILLD-submission-3-formatted-final.pdf
OpenCat
http://files.dnb.de/svensson/UILLD2013/UILLD-submission-3-formatted-final.pdf
Web Visibility“When my community searches the web for something we have, we better show up as an option.”
Chuck Gibson, Director & CEO Worthington Public Library
“The Visible Library,” Library Journal Webcast, February 26, 2015 http://goo.gl/8NErmA
Library of Congress’s Summary1. Libraries have a huge amount of identifiers2. No other community does authorities like we do3. We identify, structure, organize data in different
ways4. With BIBFRAME we can leverage existing Web
standards make library content more visible on the Web
5. Translate MARC skills and practices into a Linked Data context
http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/bibframe/
RIMMF
RDA in Many Metadata Formatshttp://www.marcofquality.com/wiki/rimmf/
RIMMF – Entity Index
BIBFRAME Editor – Zepheira Scribe
http://editor.bibframe.zepheira.com/static/
LC’s BIBFRAME Editor
http://bibframe.org/tools/editor/
LC’s BIBFRAME Comparison Service
http://bibframe.org/tools/compare/
MarcEdit’s MarcNext Options
http://marcedit.reeset.net/
Linked Data Options in OpenRefine
http://openrefine.org/
