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

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

3. 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”

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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