This document summarizes key points from a presentation about extending the National Library of Scotland's Digital Object Identifier (DOI) metadata to link to external vocabularies and data sources on the global semantic web. The presentation covers challenges with string matching and mapping local vocabulary terms to global URIs, techniques for involving crowdsourcing to help with entity disambiguation, and questions around whether local vocabularies without URIs should be changed and how different vocabularies can be mapped to each other beyond a single domain.
8. What IS the URI
for “Spud”
anyway?
is the mapping of
historical strings to
their modern day
things or URIs … that
we would have used if
we were starting now.
10. the DOD and its vocs
Name Authority File (names)
go
Subject Authority File (keyword)
go
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (keyword)
go
Thesaurus of Geographic Names (place)
go
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (keyword)
go
15. LoC Getty
Name Authority File
go
Subject Authority File
go
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
go
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
go
The Art and Architecture Thesaurus
go
Well …. real
soon now
16. a slight aside
join things up ... locally
main catalogue
Hamilton, Gill
name998877
hasMainCatLabel
hasSSALabel
hasDODLabel
Scottish screen
archive
Silly Gilly
“Hamilton, Gill”
“Silly Gilly”
“Gillian Hamilton
dod
Gillian Hamilton
URI bucket
21. literals
String matching …. Yeah baby!
What do we want?
UNIQUE MATCHES!
When do we want them?
NOW! NOW! NOW!
OH NO!!! hang on a minute ….
22. literals
String matching …. DAMN YOU!
WOO-HOO!
Not hits hits
Multiple
EXACT MATCH
means we’ve gotta URI
no URI
no need for humans
needs humans
but can you really
REALLY trust it?
Innumerate?
23. an aside ….
the innumerate Scots
The first bridge
The Forth bridge
is the Forth
neither the Fourth
nor the 4th
The 2nd bridge
is the Forth Road
bridge
24. an aside ….
the innumerate Scots
Fourth Forth
bridge
Third Forth
bridge
25. an aside ….
the innumerate Scots
There’s a third
The First Bridge on
Forth Bridge on
the Firth of Forth
the Firth
The FIFTH Forth bridge
is the Forth bridge
Did I tell
you about
And Finally,
The 2nd Bridge
there’s the
on the Firth of
Fifth Forth
Forth is the Forth
bridge on the
Road bridge yet?
Firth of Forth
Firths
And on the
Firth of Forth
there’s a
Fourth bridge
but it’s not
the Forth
bridge
29. groups
keyword
Earth (soil)
close
Earthworks (engineering works)
sh85040505
exact
exact
AAT
74465029
1048
close
AAT
74549258
3723
AAT
74546044
4844
TGMI
sh85124396
Earls
Match
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil
Match
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earls
LCSH
keywordAuthor
ity
74548320
1055
74546674
4352
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthworks_(engineering)
exact
Eating & drinking
Editors
Keyword
http://id.loc.gov/auth
orities/subjects/sh850
40976.html
close
LCSH
AAT
Match Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing
Edwardian
Match
broad
DODid
keywordID
Originating voc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardian
close
AAT
74549696
1071
Egg
sh85041248
close
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(biology)
close
AAT
74549016
4351
Elderly
Electricity
Embankments
tgm007221
sh85042065
close
close
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elderly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity
close
close
AAT
AAT
AAT
Eating & drinking
Editors
Emblems
Edwardian
Emergency medical services
Egg
Enemies
Engineers
Elderly
Engines (power producing equipment)
Electricity
Entertainers
Entertaining
Embankments
Entertainment
sh85040976
sh85042664
sh85042693
close http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embankments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editing
exact
AAT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblems
close
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_medical_service
TGMI
exact
s
close
close http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(biology)
AAT
close
broad
AAT
close
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineers
close
close http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elderly
AAT
close
close
close http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity TGMI
exact
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainers
broad
AAT
close exact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertaining
broad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embankments
exact
exact
sh85042747
sh85041248
sh95005954
sh85043249
tgm007221
sh85043258
sh85042065
sh85044098
sh85044107
sh85042664
sh96009616
broad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainers
exact
TGMI
broad
close
close
close
close
exact
TGMI 74549556
74547020
AAT 74548178
AAT 74546714
74545806
AAT 74549382
AAT 74549498
74549310
AAT
74548888
AAT 74546398
1079
3744
1087
1088
4807
1104
1106
4895
1115
1116
74548150
5191
Entrances
?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance
exact
AAT
74549258
1117
Epaulets
-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaulette
exact
AAT
74546740
1118
Equestrians
sh85062154
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrianism
broad
AAT
74549594
1123
AAT
74545814
1124
TGMI
74549442
3782
74548678
1139
Equipment
Equipment & supplies
sh85085299
sh85085299
close
?
broad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_equipment
close
close
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_equipment
broad
Ethnic groups
sh85045172
exact
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_group
exact
AAT
Events
sh96009616
close
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition
close
AAT
74547864
1148
sh85046104
broad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excavation_(archaeology)
related
AAT
74549618
4850
74548718
5038
Excavation (process)
Exhibiting
sh85046354
close
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibition
broad
AAT
Exhibitions (events)
sh85046354
close
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibition
exact
AAT
74546188
1163
Explosions
sh85046465
exact
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion
close
AAT
74549252
3750
30. crowds
Which person is Old Fox?
`<name> Capt. Campbell </name>
<name> Maj
Duncanson </name>
Is Glencoe here?
<name> old Fox </name>
<place> Glencoe </place>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe
<name> McDonalds </name>
Order to Capt. Campbell by Maj.
Duncanson
You are hereby ordered to fall upon the
rebells, the McDonalds of Glencoe, and
put all to the sword under seventy. you
are to have a speciall care that the old
Fox and his sones doe upon no account
escape your hands
31. crowds & geonames
We think this is
Cambrai …
Do you think
this Cambrai is
here?
it
Or do you think
it’s here?
33. crowds & LCSH
Would you
describe this
horse in any of
these ways?
it
Show jumpers (horses)
Horses in motion pictures
Toy Horses
Horses
War horses
Travel with horses
none of
these
34. Things to think about ….
• using a voc without URIs?
– should we change?
• are there good ways to string match?
– are they trustworthy?
• are crowds helpful?
• what vocs are mapped to what other vocs?
– can/should we help map vocs beyond our
domain?