they have left the building: the web route to library users

The world’s libraries. Connected.

Richard WallisTechnology Evangelist@rjw

They have left the building The Web route to library users

Link-by-Link – Melbourne - 1st November2013



Where are our users?

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Where our users are!

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Where are our users?



Where our users are!


Romain Wenz BnF


The problem with access to library collections:

People aren’t using the library catalog?

(No… that’s just a fact.)

The real problem is that we don’t expose our collections very well on the web.


What the Web wants

Some things the web wants:

1. Size

2. Familiar structures

3. A network of links

4. Entity identifiers


subject

edition

author location

holding

date of publication

classification

publisher

title

source

ISBN

library data:

stored as records


edition

author location

holding

date of publication

classification

publisher

title

source

ISBN

author location

holding

classification

publisher

person place

object concept

organization work

library data:

stored as records

title


authorperson place

object concept

organization work

subjectitemavailability

library data stored as entities


person place

object concept

organization work

library data stored as entitieslibrary knowledge graph


Knowledge cards for libraries

Günter GrassBorn: 16 October 1927Gdańsk, Poland

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Works

Subjects

Quotes

Find Günter Grass works at:Libraries near me | Online Retailers

Germany | German literature | Historical fictionWar stories | Black humor | Fantasy

“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”—The Tin Drum

Google Knowledge Graph


Günter GrassBorn: 16 October 1927Gdańsk, Poland

German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Works

Subjects

Quotes

Find Günter Grass works at:Libraries near me | Online Retailers

Germany | German literature | Historical fictionWar stories | Black humor | Fantasy

“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”—The Tin Drum

Links out to e-commerceWeb contentLibrary content

object

Library data stored as entitiesthe library knowledge graph

Knowledge cards for libraries


person place

work

concept

organization

object

Günter Grass

Historical Fiction

this copy of“The Tin Drum”

Germany

library “Die Blechtrommel”

library data stored as entitiesField in a record vs. entity in knowledge graph

expression“The Tin Drum”


edition

author location

holding

date of publication

classification

publisher

title

source

ISBN

author location

holding

classification

publisher

title

library data:

stored as records


person place

object concept

organization work

library data stored as entitieslibrary knowledge graph


We are moving fromcataloguingto

http://

catalinkingEric Miller - Zepheira


Things not strings


Tell them about our resources……using their language and

methods

Linked DataThe Web

DataSchema.org

http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/6220572487


WorldCat Linked Data

Linked Data• 300+ million data resources• Schema.org• Embedded RDFa• Links to Dewey, LCSH, LCNAF,

DOI, VIAF, FAST• ODC-BY license• June 2012• Continuing development:

• Vocabulary, Content-negotiation, Links, Works, …


How we are sharing with the web

What the web gets:

• WorldCat 300M+ • Schema.org• VIAF, LCSH, Dewey, …• WorldCat persistent

identifiers (URIs)

Some things the web wants:

1. Size

2. Familiar structures

3. A network of links

4. Entity identifiers


Part of the Web of Data


Part of the Web of Data

Worldcat.org/oclc/81453459The Hidden Face of Eve

http://viaf.org/viaf/84254254/Nawal El Saadawi

http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q238514Nawal El Saadawi

http://isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/0000000120296695Nawal El Saadawi

author

sameAs

sameAs

sameAs

VIAF


For library data exchange?

For sharing library resources with the web?

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

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


BIBFRAME

Bibliographic Framework as aWeb of Data:

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.

http://www.bibframe.org


≈ Complementary ≈

bibliographic description as part of the web

? Conflict ?

@Fascinatingpicshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/54136840@N00/4921290518/


Be Visible on theWeb of Data

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

Lighting the way to your resources …

…. registered in the network


Amazon.com

WorldCat.org

My University

My Library

Wikipedia.org


We all need to participate

Building a Webof Data

Linking to alland

all their resources


Happening in a hurry?

Years notDecadesThe web willprogresswithout us

Opportunities to reach fortogether


Opportunity to

connect users

with our resources


Questions

they have left the building: the web route to library users

Technology

rjwthe worlds libraries

focusthe worlds libraries

almostthe worlds libraries

entities libraries

short lived group libraries

library data exchange

library resources

library collections