ALA Practical Linked Data With Open Source 2014-06-27 Discussion Writeup ALA Practical Linked Data With Open Source 2014-06-27

Identifiers older vs newer identifiers (e.g. old ISBN) Provenance

Getting items into websearch Getting data out there Generating HTML See the Python codelab! Get a sitemap from the catalog that can be crawled. “Like”, “Exactly”, not just “Sameas”

Enhancing MARC records with published LD Plug in URIs where you can (“things not strings”) “the more you have, the better the conversion to BIBFRAME or other RDF catalog” ILS “mini-hooks” Import & export only? Use batch tools

Striving for change Retirement pattern? Libraries are complicated & silo’d Finding aids Digital collections … Can LD help when we have DIFFERENT vocabularies? (Solving since 1981) Combine theoretical knowledge + IT side

Striving for change (2) Triples: “it’s like people in the W3C had never seen sentences before” Today: “take a property & embed it in the record” (who moved my triple?) Need more literature on taking it to the next stage: past the triple Deconstructing the bibliographic record

Enhancing non-MARC Ontology for many resource types Reconciliation OpenRefine SILK OpenRefine project on reconciliation Expressing subject headings with URIs (esp subdivisions of LCSH; does FAST help?) Harvard Business School XML to RDF ETDs, repositories

Teaching about LD Where does LD belong in an L/LIS school? Lack of teaching materials Beginning level Esp text books Low level of technology (coding/programming) Integrating into the curriculum – what’s going on across schools

How to start an LD project Experience on UNLV project from Silvia “Go out and do it” (Apologize, don’t ask) Reading & trying things Prototype with a few resources at hand – easier to sell to admin Data cleaning!!!! Got really good data? Can link to it better. OpenRefine – use with LC data service Models Europeana model is very useful

Business Models: Real benefits of LOD Started with 4 questions: Where is this tech going to take us …(missed this one) What problem is being solved What problems keep directors up at night? Hint: not cataloging problems 80% of hits from Google  BNF redesign Columbia schema.org  catalog use up 30% Authority data: subject headings should have URIs so can just ping the authority file. 10,000 records. Don’t have to pay vendors BIBFRAME: solution to editing 100’s-1000’s of times in each library

Images Images as metadata Libraries/archives/specific? “Having” metadata vs. “being” metadata

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