rbms lodlam presentation

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohiouniversitylibraries/3485066089/

Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums#LODLAM

Culture TechnologyLaw

New ParadigmMaking This A Reality


The DJ in the Library?

History and Mashup Culture2010 National Archives Photo Contest

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History and Mashup CultureNARA mashup on Historypin

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37377809@N00/5304492185/in/pool-1633053@N21/

Swedish artist Sanna Dullaway

http://burritojustice.com/2010/02/10/yesterdays-baseball-is-tomorrows-safeway/

http://oldsf.org

New Tools Enabling Better Sharing


Metadata vs. data, assets, digital surrogates, images

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cwp/item/2003653763/

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003653763/marc/

CC BY

Open Data

CC0

Public Domain Mark

Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)Attribution License (ODC-By)Open Database License (ODC-ODbL)

Legal Tools

CC BY-SA

Open (ish)

Published (NOT OPEN) Data

Legal Tools

CC BY-ND

CC BY-NC

CC BY-NC-ND

CC BY-NC-SA

LawCulture TechnologyLaw

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasjwoods-com/2264301251

Going from Tables to Graphs

Going from Tables to GraphsNodes and links in a graph

msulibraries lookbackmaps

msulibraries internetarchive

msulibraries librarycongress

lookbackmaps internetarchive

internetarchive librarycongress

Going from Tables to GraphsAs computing power increases, the ability to build more and more complex graphs becomes a reality.

follows

Introducing TriplesNodes and Links

• Quite simply: Subject, Predicate, Object

• gives us the ability to describe entities in a way that is machine readable

jonvoss nowviskie

http://inkdroid.org/ehs.rdf

What do we know about the person: Ed Summers (aside from the fact that he rocks)?

knowsbio

knowsdepiction of

Bio: Hacker for libraries, digital archaeologist, pragmatist.

Triples for machines

• Triples can be serialized in many different ways, including Resource Description Framework, RDF/XML, RDFa, N3, Turtle, etc, but they all describe things in the <subject><predicate><object> format.

• Of course, we need to be consistent and predictable for machines to understand us.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oface/3306994117/

http://inkdroid.org/ehs.rdf

• Consider graph demo: http://civilwardata150.net

• Civil War vocabulary, or a way to link and traverse across datasets• Regiments, Battles, Places

• Building apps that use this data

http://conflicthistory.com

http://timwray.net/2011/12/canvas/

Sharing the storiesSharing the data

You’re not alone...

2010

British LibraryStanford University University of MichiganOpen LibraryCERN

VIAFID.LOC.GOV

W3C LLD

The Linked Data cloud as a whole grew by 300% in

2010...

...whereas the amount of data

relevant for libraries grew by nearly

1000%

http://swib.org/swib11/

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http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_use_for_data

2011–2012

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003653763/marc/

Who’s got next?

Join the LODLAM movement

Join the LODLAM movementresources and community on http://lodlam.net

Join the LODLAM movementresources and community on http://lodlam.netask for help on Google Group or #lodlam on Twitter

Join the LODLAM movementresources and community on http://lodlam.netask for help on Google Group or #lodlam on Twitter

Contribute!

Google Refinehttp://freeyourmetadata.org

From a Web of Documents

to a Web of Data

Radically Open Cultural HeritageData on the Web

Linked Open Data

RBMS Preconference, June 21, 2012San Diego, CA USA

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