The document discusses how libraries can better connect their resources to the web of data through linked data and BIBFRAME in order to improve discovery of library materials. It notes that traditional library metadata and cataloging is no longer sufficient and that libraries need to start linking their resources instead of just copying records. By making resources discoverable through linked data, libraries have an opportunity to reassert their role as a source for all materials, both physical and digital.

1. The world’s libraries. Connected.
Ebooks 2013 - 9 May 2013
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
OCLC
@rjw
Discovery
Linked Data For
EBook

2. The world’s libraries. Connected.
Linked Data For
Discovery

3. The world’s libraries. Connected.
Discovery

4. The world’s libraries. Connected.
the only show in town?
is
Discovery

13. Where are our users?

14. Where are our users?

15. Where our users are!

16. Where our users are!

17. Where our users are!

19. Romain Wenz BnF

21. Libraries Archives
Museums

22. Libraries Archives
Museums
The place to go
for information

23. Libraries Archives
Museums
The place to go
for information
not any more!

32. Knowledge Graph

33. THINGS NOT STRINGS
Knowledge Graph

34. http://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldformylens/6537249151/
Hmmm..

35. http://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldformylens/6537249151/
What do we do?
Hmmm..

36. http://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldformylens/6537249151/
What do we do?
Talk their language
Hmmm..

37. http://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldformylens/6537249151/
What do we do?
Talk their language
Linked Data..
Hmmm..

38. http://www.flickr.com/photos/theworldformylens/6537249151/
What do we do?
Be of the Web!
Talk their language
Linked Data..

39. @Fascinatingpics

40. @Fascinatingpics

41. @Fascinatingpics

42. @Fascinatingpics

43. The world’s libraries. Connected.
Linked Data

44. The world’s libraries. Connected.
• 290+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Extensions
Linked Data

45. The world’s libraries. Connected.
• 290+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Extensions
• Embedded RDFa
Linked Data

46. The world’s libraries. Connected.
• 290+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Extensions
• Embedded RDFa
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
Linked Data

47. The world’s libraries. Connected.
• 290+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Extensions
• Embedded RDFa
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
• License: ODC-BY
Linked Data

48. The world’s libraries. Connected.
• 290+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Extensions
• Embedded RDFa
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
• License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
Linked Data

66. is
good enough ?

67. is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange

68. is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange - No

69. is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange
• For sharing library data with the world
- No

70. is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange
• For sharing library data with the world
- No
- Almost

73. http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex
• Short lived group
• Libraries, Publishers, Consumers, SystemVendors, Linked Data, Standards Bodies
• Library is only one focus

74. BIBFRAME

75. BIBFRAME
http://bibframe.org

76. It is the foundation for the future of
bibliographic description that happens on, in,
and as part of the web and the networked
world we live in.
bibliographic description
as part of the web
BIBFRAME
http://bibframe.org

77. bibliographic description as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics

78. bibliographic description as part of the web
competition?
@Fascinatingpics

79. bibliographic description
≈ complimentary ≈
as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics

80. bibliographic description
Challenges for change
≈ complimentary ≈
as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics

81. bibliographic description
• Metadata for ‘items’
Challenges for change
≈ complimentary ≈
as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics

82. bibliographic description
• Metadata for ‘items’
• Searching for ‘works’
Challenges for change
≈ complimentary ≈
as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics

83. bibliographic description
• Metadata for ‘items’
• Searching for ‘works’
• Materials of all types - print / e / digital
Challenges for change
≈ complimentary ≈
as part of the web
@Fascinatingpics

84. h"p://wallpapersfor.me/storm-­‐beacon/
Be visible
On the Web of Data

85. h"p://wallpapersfor.me/storm-­‐beacon/
Be visible
On the Web of Data
Light the way to your resources...
... registered in the network

90. Knowledge Graph

91. So, what can
we do?

92. Stop Copying

93. Stop Copying
Start Linking
Be of the Web
of Data

94. We are moving from
cataloguing

95. We are moving from
cataloguing
to
h"p://catalinking
Eric
Miller
-­‐
Zepheira

96. Happening in a hurry?
@Fascinatingpics

97. Happening in a hurry?
Years not
decades
@Fascinatingpics

98. Happening in a hurry?
The Web will
progress
without us
@Fascinatingpics

99. Happening in a hurry?
Opportunity to
reach for
together...
@Fascinatingpics

100. Opportunity to
reach for
together ...

101. Opportunity to
reach for
together ... reassert
our role as a
discoverable source
For all materials
Print/ /Journals/Articles/DigitalEBook

102. The world’s libraries. Connected.
Ebooks 2013 - 9 May 2013
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
OCLC
@rjw
EBook Discovery
Linked Data For