1. The Links Effect: Monika Szunejko The laws of attraction, linked data,
and the national union catalogues of France and Britain
Monika Szunejko

2. Visibility
Attraction
Making connections

3. Thank you

8. Being Open Unlocking the value The BNB “was a Swiss army knife”
continue to do the work ‘in-house’
Leveraging old skills
The aim was to “see how far we could go with what we had”
Data cleansing
Culture of continuous improvement
return on investment resulting from good publicity, usage metrics, feedback and increased organisational capacity
keep an open mind to new and unexpected uses of the data set.

9. Getting more visibility
Building on the high value of BnF metadata
Contributing to the Semantic Web
Open the data
“Our resources should be as visible on the web as the library building in the town”

12. Being visible We are wedding planners between data sets
Think in terms of identities and links
– NOT records
Being visible
publish the data as open …used a French version of CC BY
We are wedding planners
between data sets
Building on the high value of BnF metadata
Agile project management
Data.bnf.fr promotes BnF's collections and provides a hub between different resources
data dissemination strategy – to deliver BnF data
to non-library audiences
data cleaning and data enrichment programme to FRBRise the general catalogue of the BnF
demonstrated the value of BnF data as assets that could be recognised and enhanced

13. Reflections Know your context – your why
Understand your organisation - your capacity and capability
Make some friends – a community of practice