Linked Open Data stuff Gordon Dunsire Opening Library Linked Data to National Heritage: Perspectives on International Practice (2nd Linked Open Data Conference), Edinburgh, 21 Sep 2012

Scope  Open, free  Highly selective  Wot I kno  Kind of stable  Lots of stuff is project-based …  Links to other stuff

General background, etc.  W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group  n_Page#Reports n_Page#Reports  W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF) 

Datasets  British National Bibliography (BNB) - Linked Open Data   Linked Data Service of the German National Library  dData/linkeddata_node.html dData/linkeddata_node.html  LOCAH project   DBPedia 

Element sets & value vocabularies  Open Metadata Registry   FRBR/FRAD/FRSAD family   ISBD   RDA (in development)   Linked Open Vocabularies 

Value vocabularies  Library of Congress Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies   LCSH, LCC, LCNAF, MARC codes, etc.  Dewey Decimal Classification   Universal Decimal Classification summary 

Element sets  CIDOC Concept Reference Model  crm.org/official_release_cidoc.html crm.org/official_release_cidoc.html

Tools  W3C Semantic Web tools   W3C LinkingOpenData  nityProjects/LinkingOpenData nityProjects/LinkingOpenData  Open Metadata Registry (for vocabulary management)   Knoodl 

Stuff I currently find useful  Notepad or other text editor  For non-XML serializations  W3C RDF Validation Service   IsaViz: A Visual Authoring Tool for RDF   Protégé source ontology editor 

And so on ….  And so on …

Issues  Global environment  Multilingual environment  Multi-domain environment  Archives, libraries, museums, … mappings!  Importance of branding (license, namespace)  Who said that?  Assessment of quality in a multi-voice environment  Trust  Importance of “authority” “control”  = Identity/Identifier management  Local vs global authorities (URIs)  “Record” is the old paradigm  Linked “statement” is the new  We all need to help each other (not alone any more)  We are all in this together, and so is our data