1. Stichting Bibliotheek.NL Publink
Employing the Dutch DBpedia for Searching and
Visualising Dutch Library Data
Dimitris Kontokostas, Sebastian Hellmann
23.03.2014 / LOD2 Meeting / Mannheim

2. About BNL
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Government funded organization since 2009
Goal to provide a digital infrastructure for
delivering a broad range of digital services to
public libraries and their end users
Current focus on search infrastructure

3. BNL Publink project
2 Goals:
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Get a better overview of the challenges and the possibilities of converting,
integrating and presenting different information sources using semantic
technologies on data from the library domain.
Define requirements about:
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integrating index search with semantic search,
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technologies and content for building a knowledge base,
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data modeling (e.g. BIBFRAME, BIBO, SOBR),
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the reuse of linked (open) data sources
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The application stack for the linked data life cycle.
http://datalab.bibliotheek.nl