This document summarizes the LODLAM 2013 conference. It discusses how linked open data can activate libraries, archives, and museums by (1) bringing library data outside library walls and linking to external web data, (2) helping different actors create and aggregate data about the same objects, and (3) adding value to metadata by linking to external knowledge bases. The conference had over 100 participants from 16 countries and included sessions on topics like curation, vocabularies, tools, and case studies. Several projects and tools were presented, including LODLAM patterns, Karma, and Pundit. The document argues that linking library metadata to the web of data presents opportunities but also challenges of metadata interoperability and vocabulary

1. Andrea Wei-Ching Huang
Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
August 5, 2013 Taipei, Taiwan
Activating Linked Open Data in
Libraries, Archives and Museums
A Report on LODLAM 2013

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1. Preface
2. People
3. Place
4. Program
5. Presentation
6. Proposition

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1. Preface
Gallery, library, archive, and museum (i.e. GLAM or LAM)
have the privilege in their “tradition” for constructing
structured data (metadata).
Linked Open Data (LOD) provides a web environment for
LAM to curate & integrate internal & external resources.
Different kinds of data about the same object thus can
be created by distributed actors/agents, and then be
aggregated into a single LOD graph.
In short, LAM is benefited from adding value to their
metadata by linking to the LOD with previously unknown
& unexplored resources (e.g. other library sources, non-
library sources, and multiple domain knowledge bases,
etc. )

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Amsterdam Museum Linked Data
Linked Open Aalto Data Service (Finland)
(Oct. 2012)
data.europeana.eu
National Library of France , BnF (July, 2011)
National Library of Spain, BnE
German National Library Linked Data
Services
The British Library Free Data Services, BnB
(July, 2011)
LOCAH Linked Archives Hub project (UK)
Open Data from the Conference of European
National Libraries (CENL)
ATHENA project
Europeana
LIBRIS system: National Swedish Library
Museum Finland
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Pedantic Web Group
BibSoup (OKF and JISC)
Stanford Linked Data Manifesto
OCLC- VIAF/ DDC/ FAST
LODLAM
CLIR on Linked Data
LODAC (Linked Open Data for ACademia)
W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group
(2010)/final report 2011)
ResearchSpace
Semantic Web in Libraries
LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and
Vocabularies
New York Times Linked Open Data
2013
2008
2003
Some Recent Initiatives

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1) Linked data is for technical interoperability;
2) open data is for legal interoperability;
3) the benefits for Library is to bring Library Data outside the
Library Wall, linking to the Web World
W3C Library Linked Data Final Report (2011)
32/65 Datasets in DataHub
http://datahub.io/group/lld
LAM Vocabularies for LOD
http://goo.gl/D3HMNK

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http://summit2013.lodlam.net/about/participants/
2. People

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3. Place http://goo.gl/maps/VUuIQ
More than 100 participants from 16 countries

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http://goo.gl/wGV797

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4. Program

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 Curation (11)
 Vocabulary (10)
 Tools (10)
 Processing (4)
 Case Study (3)
 LODLAM (2)
 Others (3)
My classification :
43 sessions/ 7 emerging issues
http://goo.gl/MTHso1

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 Rather going to the Vocabulary War in the LAM
community that I am not familiar with …. seeking
available tool development may work more positive
results.
 Happy to hear that Getty is going to progress
themselves in LOD. (anticipated that the data will be
published under the ODC_BY 1.0 license; begin
with AAT and then to TGN, ULAN, and finally
CONA, from late 2013 through 2015.)
 One exception: LODLAM Pattern /reminds me
the Design Pattern in Semantic Web. / other
missing on Taxonomy Alignment Map session
My Decision on the Site:

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vocabulary
Web
Content
LAM
Datasets
reuse ontologies that are
sensible to you
reuse ontologies that are
sensible to you
Linked Data Integration
5. Selected Presentations

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 LODLAM patterns: a pattern library for cultural
linked data; to identify common problems and
common linked data solutions. (Representation
Patterns for Cultural Heritage Resources)
 Karma : A tool for
converting LAM data
to LOD/RDF /can
feed varieties of
ontologies & data
resources.
 PUNDIT:
a client-server
annotation system
express semantics
about any kind of web
content through
labelled relations
among annotated
items in the form of
RDF triples.
vocabulary
Web content
Annotation &
Publishing
Data Modelling &
Publishing
LOD

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Europeana Data Model
(EDM)
http://pro.europeana.eu/edm-documentation

15. Europeana Data Model (EDM) Class
subClass propertycore class external class

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LODLAM Patterns
http://lodlampatterns.org

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“The universe of methods for representing cultural
heritage resources is growing rapidly, despite the
multiple standards that already exist across the
library, archive, and museum domain.
These various standards may address common
problems, but there is little explicit coordination
among the solutions.
As Linked Data Principles increasingly allow us to
“mix and match” vocabularies, we need a new way
to understand the available techniques that solve
specific representation problems.”
Richard J. Urban
Florida State University, College of Communication and
Information, School of Library and Information Studies
LODLAM Patterns

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context

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KARMA
http://www.isi.edu/integration/karma/

21. KARMA:
Connecting the Smithsonian American Art
Museum to the Linked Data Cloud
Pedro Szekely and
Eleanor E. Fink
Information Sciences
Institute of the University of
Southern California

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http://www.isi.edu/integration/karma/

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PUNDIT
http://www.thepund.it/

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LODLAM 2013 Challenge Winnerhttp://www.thepund.it/

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Only 2 sessions notes are
listed in this official page.
However, there are several
notes within this website or
on other websites.
http://summit2013.lodlam.net/category/session-notes/
The same text fragment
(“session notes”) can be
annotated by different users,
and displayed annotations on
the same web page.
18 more LODLAM 2013 session
notes (on the LODLAM website or
not) can be annotated, connected,
and found through Pundit.

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Part of the image can be annotated, referred
as well as linked to Dbpedia, WordNet, EDM
….

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Annotation of Web
content/objects can
be published & linked
to the Web of Data
through labelled
relation.
http://ask.as.thepund.it/#/notebooks/9d07abe9
http://ask.as.thepund.it/#/notebooks/
Search “lodlam”

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6. Proposition
(1) Potential / LOD + LAM :
 Web is the biggest library for all human.
DBpedia and Freebase have been played an
important role as the Web Library resources.
 Libraries have long preserved/curated
massive & quality datasets. The hidden
treasure of the library data not only provides
opportunities but also offers a backbone of
trust for the Semantic Web.

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 MARC21: MAchine-Readable Cataloguing
 LCSH: Library of Congress Subject
Headings
 AAT: Art and Architecture Thesaurus/
GETTY vocabulary
 EDM: Europeana Data Model
 DCAT: Data Catalog Vocabulary
( W3C:2013)
(2) Challenge Remains: Metadata
Interoperability & Vocabulary Alignment:
http://goo.gl/D3HMNK

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(3) Semantic Annotation & Metadata
Releasing:
 Semantic annotations have stirred up what
LAM’s structured data toward more
semantics, and get better at them by
releasing & linking to LOD.
 Human/Semi-automatic/Automatic Tools in
three major Semantic Web conferences.
 Releasing more:
reach more, reuse more, and
remix more.

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Full Report@
http://goo.gl/j9AQLZ