Toward Place Based Information Organization and Access MARCY BIDNEY KEVIN CLAIR Harnessing the Geospatial Semantic Web

How can we be innovative in making collections more accessible outside of the catalog? What technologies exist to make this happen? Research Questions

The problem space: Catalog records have metadata that we want to use for display on a map interface connected to data services with linked open data interface capabilities

Linked open data in libraries Community of users – how it came about Some definitions: Open data Linked data Linked open data

Our example Penn State University Libraries digital collections 10 years of digitization/metadata activity Geospatial metadata (locations, lat/long coords) inconsistently applied Want to be able to fetch a lot of coordinates on the fly and put them in a visualization tool someplace

CONTENTdm

GeoNames

+National+Park&name_equals=Great+Sand+Dunes+National+Park&user name=psul

XSLT + GeoNames API +,

Google Refine

Visualizing the Data

Where are we now?

"Next Generation" Access

We want to be here

And here

Other visualization tools View share Mapnik Many Eyes Google Maps Google Earth

Final Thought Desire to increase access to collections in innovative ways + linked data ______________ really cool opportunities for innovation