Presentada en la Jornada de Web semántica en archivos, bibliotecas y museos, en la Fundación Ramón Areces, el 10 de abril de 2014.

1. Linked data:
what it means,
why it matters
Karen Coyle
April, 2014

2. linked data
connecting information

3. WHAT

4. World Wide Web Consortium
Standard
Uses the web as a home for data
Data framework

5. Content standards
Library standards are:
• Top-down
• Control output
• Enforce uniformity
• Discourage innovation

6. Standards hold some things stable so
that the rest can change

7. linked data
A tool

8. Our future standards

9. PROBLEM STATEMENT

10. Separate data
stores

11. Shared data
space

12. Anyone can make
connections
Re-use, mix’n’match

13. WHY?

14.  Manguel, Alberto,
1948-

18. BUT, HOW?
We need to make connections

19. FACTS
 Place
 Date & time
 People
 Events
 … Identifiers, mainly identifiers for things

20. Identifiers
 Persistent (life of the thing)
 Consistent (do not change)
 Language neutral (the web is global)
 Web-enabled (http://…)

21. Smith, John, 1936-
Smith, John
Smith, John, 1967-
2010

22. http://viaf.org/viaf/17220427

23. Things
Identifiers for

24. text

26. VIAF
LC/BnF/DNB

27. Enhancing the catalog with data
Making use of
resources
outside of the
library.
 LIBRIS – Swedish
National Library
 OpenAGRIS - FAO

28. LIBRIS – National Library of
Sweden
• DBPedia
• id.loc.gov
• MusicBrainz
• VIAF
• …

29. OpenAGRIS
• DBPedia
• Global Biodiversity Information
Facility (GBIF)
• FAO GeopoliticalOntology
• AGRIS serials dataset
• Global capture production -
FAO Fishery Statistical Collections
• World Bank

30. WEB
Acq;
patron;
inventory
Public interface
Library

31. http://kcoyle.net/presentations/links
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http://kcoyle.net/metadata/
Thank You