linking books: rda-frbr-lod

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Linking booksRDA – FRBR - LODLukas Koster

Library Systems CoordinatorLibrary of the University of Amsterdamhttp://www.uba.uva.nl@lukask

RDA Seminar, Ingressus/OCLC, Rotterdam, November 2, 2011

RDA Seminar, Rotterdam, November 2, 2011 2

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Agenda

RDA/FRBR – User Tasks Functions of library/catalogue Changing user needs Examples/use cases Linked Open Data and user needs RDA/FRBR/LOD? Options for libraries ‘Recommendations’


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RDA

Resource Description and Access


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FRBR

Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records

Defined in relation to tasks performed by users when searching and making use of national bibliographies and library catalogues

http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr_current2.htm#2.2


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FRBR User Tasks Find Identify Select Obtain Navigate


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Original objective of libraries

Gateways to information

Printed material

Physical objects

On location

Bibliotheken en leeszalen in beeld, 1990


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Focus on physical copies at hand

Books

Journal issues


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FRBRGroup 1: What? Work Expression Manifestation ItemGroup 2: By who? Person Corporate Body

FRAD Functional Requirements for Authority Data Group 3: About what? Concept Object Event Place

FRSAD Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data

Title – Author - Subject


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http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF

© Library of Congress/Barbara Tillett


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FRBR for books

Editions

Copies

Original

AdaptationTranslation


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FRBR Group 1 Entities - WEMI

Manifestation

Item

Work

Expression

Catalogue


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FRBR for journals

Issues

Articles

Journal


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FRBR Group 1 Entities - WEMI

Issues

Copies

CatalogueManifestation

Item

Work

Expression Articles

Journal

?


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Changing information world

WWW


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People Objects Newspapers Museums Publishers Books Files Archives Libraries Digital Physical Images Text Memories Movies Music Sound Statistics Research Journals Data Maps Metadata Collections Buildings History Art Science Government Societies Stories Photos Reports Private Public Games Shows Education Nature Speech War Schools Love Theatre Poetry Location Fiction Facts Fantasy Animals


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Changing user needs

Let’s explore….


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Fiction Literature

Painting

Music

Theatre

Philosophy

Archives

History

Images


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Fiction


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FictionISBN search


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Fiction

With fiction, customer mostly not interested in specific editionJust a copy in their language

Movie?

Da Vinci’s painting?

FRBR?

Samarcande – French/Belgian Union Catalogue project


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FictionEditions….

Movie? Only 1 dvd!


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FRBR – Movie

Work

Expression

An Expression of the Work A new Work


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RDA – Movie (as Work)…Form of work: motion picture…Content type: two-dimensional moving image …Type of recording: digitalMedia type: videoCarrier type: videodiscEncoding format: DVD video…

Work

Expression

Manifestation

Physical copy


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RDA – Movie (relations)

Related work: Remake based on the screenplay written by

‘Based on novel written by Dan Brown’

Uniform resource locator: <web address, streaming video>

Related manifestation: Originally broadcast <date, media, ….>

Source consulted: IMDB <Title, Date, Description>

Source consulted: Wikipedia <Titel, Date, Description> + URL


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And then there’s the painting


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Fiction


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Fiction

?

No FRBR here

?


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Literature

Short descriptions of other WorksMany authorsKoninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library


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Literature

Content?


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Literature

Online exhibition

Not linked from Catalogue

http://www.kb.nl/galerie/literatuur/index.html


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Literature

Link back to catalogue record for compilation

Link to original Work in catalogue


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Philosophy

Reprints of original texts by Spinoza

Biographic notes (original work by editor)

Edition information


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Philosophy

Content?No information about Spinoza, historical, cultural background, influences


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Painting

Music

Archives

History

Images

People are interested in information, subject areasNot necessarily in traditional library items (publications, documents)


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FRBR – so far so good?

Improvement: relations between editions, authors, subjects.

But: still focused on traditional library material Publications (physical and digital) Only library’s own holdings Journals/articles? Hierarchical, no horizontal relations Document centric, not information centric


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Linked (Open) Data – Why?

Make introverted systems extroverted

Combine information from different sources

Add value for users


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Linked (Open) Data – How?

Make implicit links explicit Add links to/from other sources Use URIs Use RDF/Triples Use Open License


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URIs

Unique identifiers on the web

Instead of internal database primary keyhttp://viaf.org/viaf/102403515 (Dan Brown)

http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W (The Da Vinci Code)


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Triples •Subject - Predicate – Object

•Thing – Relation - Thing

written by

painted byis about

author ofpainter of

is subject of

uri

uri

uri

uri

uri

uri


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Two sides

PublishConsume


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Theatre First edition

More editions

Authority info

Theatre performance information!


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Pilot project

Linking library catalogue data to theatre performance data

Dutch Digital Cultural Heritage Foundation DEN as instigator

http://den.nl/

Library of the University of Amsterdam Theatre Institute of The Netherlands

http://tin.nl/http://www.uba.uva.nl/


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Catalogue results

No FRBR here (yet)


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Catalogue results


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Theatre play

Samuel Beckett

En attendant Godot (1949)

Waiting for Godot – a tragicomedy in two acts (1952)

A country road

A tree

Evening

Men in bowler hats


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Theatre context

PARADOXKey concept: The Performance

Nothing remains, except ‘residuals’/’waste products’:

Memories

Souvenir brochures

Recordings

Objects

Texts

Reviews

Metadata


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Theatre context


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A theatre play data model

‘Play’


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Theatre Things (Entities)

Authors, actors, producers, etc. (persons) Plays (shows)

Productions

Performances Digital objects

Photos, posters, sound, video Physical objects

Costumes, scenery, models, posters, photos, sound, video …


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Library Things (Entities)

Authors (persons) Books/holdings/items (plays)


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MatchingLibrary catalogue results – Theatre production database results


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What we made


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How we did it - URIs

<base-url>/person/Beckett, Samuel

<base-url>/title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot

JavaScript/JQuery

HTML


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How we did it – JavaScript/JQuery<base-url>/person/Beckett, Samuel

<base-url>/title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot

<base-url>/production/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot/1988-11-22/6750

JavaScript/JQuery


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Problems No common identifiers

Aleph key ≠ key No internal links to common entity

No central “Work” String matching

Author: ‘Samuel Beckett’- ‘Beckett, Samuel’

Title: ‘Waiting for Godot’ –’En attendant Godot’ Copyright

Photos, videos, audio, artwork


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Identifiers/URIs/String matching

/title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot

/title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot : a tragicomedy in two acts

/title/Beckett, Samuel/En attendant Godot : pièce en deux actes

/title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachten op Godot

/title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot

/title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting For Godot

/title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachten op Godot

/title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachtend op Godot

/title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachten op Godot (De favorieten)

/title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachten op Godot (eerste bedrijf)

/title/Beckett, Samuel/En attendant Godot

/title/Beckett, Samuel/Warten auf Godot


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Ideally….

FRBR


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Current situation

Implicit relations


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Can RDA help Library Linked Data?

In theory: yes

But with links/URIs instead of text strings

Internally: FRBR

Externally: Authority files


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Can Linked Data help Libraries?

Linked Data in terms of FRBR:

Entry point, mainly: Group 2: Who? FRAD - People Group 3: About? FRSAD- Subject

Things associated with People/Subject: Group 1: Publications …and there is more…


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Linked data options for libraries

Consume

Traditional cataloguing

Enrichment of existing catalogue data

Create new information aggregates (new!) Publish (unique stuff)

Holdings/usage data

Special collections


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Traditional cataloguing


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‘1st edition 1956, 1st print of this edition 1965’

‘Original title: En attendant Godot’

Links as text strings


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MARCIn MARC record:Identifiers to Dutch union catalogue record • Author•Title


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Triples

written by

painted byis about

author ofpainter of

is subject of

uri

uri

uri

uri

uri

uri


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LOD and cataloguingwritten by

painted by

author of

painter of

is subject of

http://permalink.opc.uva.nl/item/001665446

is about

Manifestation

Item

Work

Expression

http://viaf.org/viaf/102403515

Dan Brown

http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W

The Da Vinci Code

http://viaf.org/viaf/24604287

Leonardo da Vinci

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo_da_Vinci)

The Last Supper

Dutch translationDe Da Vinci Code

HoldingOBA

http://www.worldcat.org/libraries/57394

http://<expression-uri>

http://<manifestation-uri>

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URI http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W

Original Title The Da Vinci Code 245 $a

Author http://viaf.org/viaf/102403515 100 $a

Subject http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo_da_Vinci)

650 $a

Work

URI http://<expression-uri>

Work http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W

Language dut (or: URI to language code) 546 $a

Title De Da Vinci Code 245 $a

Expression

URI http://<manifestation-uri>

Expression http://<expression-uri>

Publisher http://isbndb.com/d/publisher/anchor_books.html 260 $b

Date 2006 260 $c

Manifestation


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URI http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837WWork

URI http://<expression-uri>

Work http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W

Expression

URI http://<manifestation-uri>

Expression http://<expression-uri>Manifestation

URI http://<holding-uri>

Library http://www.worldcat.org/libraries/57394

Manifestation http://<manifestation-uri>

Holding

URI http://<item-uri>

Holding http://<holding-uri>

Availability

Item(s)

Global bibliographic data

Local holdings data


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Unfortunately

Existing circumstances not suited for moving to Linked Cataloguing - RDA/FRBR/LOD:

Bibliographic formats (MARC) Local library systems


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What’s needed Global Shared Bibliographic Metadata Store(s) Global Shared Authority Files Open Cataloguing systems Supporting for linking with URIs


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PublishersManifestation

Item

Work

Expression

FRBR Group 1 FRBR Group 2FRAD

FRBR Group 3FRSAD

Holding

Libraries


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Enrichment of existing data


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FRBR

Links


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FRBR


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Text about authorEmbedded from DBPedia(Wikipedia Linked Data engine)Uses German National Library Author ID’s


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Enrichment - Discovery front ends

Examples use Discovery front ends Extra layer on top of processed catalogue metadata Metadata are FRBRised, based on string matching Linked data embedded using scripts/programming,

manipulating HTML front end


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Create new information aggregates


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The girl

The war

The house

The diary

The book

The movie

The playAbout

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FRBR

Subject: Anne Frank


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New aggregations

http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Timeline/#


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LOCAH – Linking LivesLinked Open Copac Archives Hub

http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/

http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/

Publish linked dataArchives+libraries

Using Linked Data to create biographical resources

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/linkinglives


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Library options

Develop your own systems/communities/open source

Use existing commercial systems


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Requirements/recommendations

System development skills/staff Ask library systems vendors to adapt (next gen) systems to add:

FRBR/RDA/Linking architecture/infrastructure LOD/RDF/URI Publishing options LOD/RDF/URI Consuming options

W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group,Report: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/XGR-lld-20111025/ IGeLU 2011 session Linked Data and Ex Libris products,Summary slides: http://igelu.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Linked-

data-and-Ex-Libris-products-Summary.pdf


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Photo credits

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mihaibojin/3472311814/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/morville/84894874/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/yolaleah/2243898496/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/elenaromera/353826561/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/simona_/4068354970/

linking books: rda-frbr-lod

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frbr group

frbr movie work expression

library catalogue data

work form of work

new work

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