why schema.org for libraries
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Lightening talk at ELAG 2014 in Bath UK 10-13 June 2014TRANSCRIPT
Why ?
Richard Wallis Technology Evangelist OCLC @rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.
Why ?
for libraries ?
Why
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Why Catalogue ?
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Why Catalogue ?
So people can findour stuff !
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Where are ?our users
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Where are ?our users
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Where are ?our users
are in our users
are in our users
are in
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our users
are in
notnot
other search engines are available
our users
our data are not in
our data are not in
our data are not in
Why?
our data are not in
Why?does not understand:
Marc, ISBD, OAI-PMH, RDA, Z39.50, Bibframe ....
insert you favourite standard here!
Does Understand
happiness philosophy
A broad vocabulary to
describe ‘things’ on the web
WorldCat)Works)Linked)Data
Works&
• 197+%million%Work%descrip3ons%and%URIs%• Schema.org%• RDF%Data%formats%–%RDF/XML,%Turtle,%Triples,%JSONKLD%
• Links%to%WorldCat%manifesta3ons%• Links%to%Dewey,%LCSH,%LCNAF,%VIAF,%FAST%• Open%Data%license%• Released%April%2014%
• June 2011: Launch of Schema.org
• June 2011: Launch of Schema.org
• June 2012: 7%-10% of crawled pages contain Schema.org markup
• June 2011: Launch of Schema.org
• June 2012: 7%-10% of crawled pages contain Schema.org markup
• Today: 15% of the Web use Schema.org
is
is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange
is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange - No
is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange
• For sharing library data with the world
- No
is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange
• 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
libraries should use
libraries should use
to describe & link resources to the web
libraries should use
to describe & link resources to the web
applying other vocabularies and standards
at the same time asat the same time as
That’s
Why
Richard Wallis Technology Evangelist OCLC @rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.
for libraries
That’s
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