Presentation by the BVC of their Semantic Web during the Impact Centre of Competence Annual General Meeting

1. Digital Library
Miguel de Cervantes
Semantic Web
gustavo.candela@cervantesvirtual.com
mpilar.escobar@cervantesvirtual.com

2. Introduction
The Digital Library Miguel de Cervantes Virtual was founded in 1999 and today
its catalogue compiles about 200,000 bibliographic records, including content
provided by many institutions from many countries.
www.cervantesvirtual.com
Marc21 FRBR
In 2012
RDA
In 2015
Relational
Database
RDF
Repository

3. RDF. Classes and properties (summary)
Vocabularies
RDA Dublin Core
owl-time foaf
mads schema.org
subject object
Predicate
Gustavo Pilar
Knows

4. Ongoing work
RDF
Repository
Bibliographic
records
Images
Author
chronologies
Done!
Social data
Users Annotations
Thematic websites
...

5. Advantages
● Interoperability
● Enriched metadata (vocabularies)
● Linked open data (to other repositories)
● Sparql endpoint (public access)

6. References
● Digital Library Miguel de Cervantes Virtual. http://www.cervantesvirtual.com
● RDF version of Digital Library Miguel de Cervantes Virtual. http://data.cervantesvirtual.com
● data.cervantesvirtual.com description. http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/about
● RDF - Semantic Web Standards. https://www.w3.org/RDF/
● RDA Vocabulary. http://www.rdaregistry.info/
● SPARQL Query Language for RDF. http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
● BVMC Sparql Endpoint. http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/openrdf-sesame/repositories/data
● Programming with Sesame. http://rdf4j.org/sesame/2.8/docs/programming.docbook?view
● SPARQL examples. https://code.google.com/p/void-impl/wiki/SPARQLQueriesForStatistics
● Demo. http://demo.cervantesvirtual.com/gestor/

7. Examples
● Classical author, Miguel de Cervantes: http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/person/40
● Contemporary author, Mario Benedetti: http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/person/426
● El retablo de las marauillas / por Miguel de Ceruantes Saauedra … http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/manifestation/238991
● El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha / compuesto por Miguel de Ceruantes Saauedra … : http://data.
cervantesvirtual.com/manifestation/238924
● Works published in 1605: http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/date/1605
● Works written in French http://data.cervantesvirtual.com/language/fr