1. Linked Open Data: Challenges and Opportunities for BAnQ
Jean-François Gauvin
Marielle St-Germain
Direction de l’architecture et de la conception
October 2016
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2. Reminder: BAnQ Mission
To preserve and disseminate our heritage
To disseminate and promote knowledge
Archives
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3. Linked Open Data Why? Background
2013: BAnQ hosted the second LODLAM Summit
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4. Linked Open Data Why? Almost nothing new since 2013 ... Why?
Key concepts:
Many challenges facing the community
Crossing the Chasm (Moore, 1991)
Hype Cycle
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5. Linked Open Data Why? Crossing the Chasm Geoffrey Moore
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6. Linked Open Data Why? Hype Cycle Gartner
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7. Linked Open Data Why? Key Benefits: Enhance the user experience
Permit reuse
Release content and make it available over the Internet
Improve the quality of indexing
Increase transparency
Democratize knowledge and collections
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8. Linked Open Data Why? Key Benefits:
External support provides easier access to descriptive metadata
Reduction in indexing/cataloguing costs
Compatibility with new services
Participation in an international cooperative process
First step toward cloud-based management of cultural information
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9. Digital BAnQ ─ Vision
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10. Phase 2 Opportunities: Linked Open Data ─ How?
Creation of the data.banq.qc.ca service
Use of structured data in Web pages
Creation of data dumps
Creation of a SPARQL endpoint
Public API
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11. Phase 2 Opportunities: Linked Open Data ─ How?
Upgrading of the OAI-PMH server
Trusted digital depository
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12. Phase 2 Opportunities: Linked Open Data ─ What?
BAnQ catalogue notices
Catalogue authority files
Already provided through VIAF
Pistard Export EAD
BAnQ data warehouse
Physical and virtual traffic statistics
Circulation statistics
Directory of Canadian/French publishers
Annual survey of Quebec’s public libraries
RDAQ data
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13. Phase 2 Opportunities: Linked Open Data ─ What?
Certain data sets are currently available via the Quebec government open data site (donnees.gouv.qc.ca)
Bibliography of Quebec collections
Directory of musical adaptations
Launched during the 2016 Hackathon des Journées de la culture
Publications submitted for legal deposit (publication statistics)
List of the most searched terms from the Iris catalogue (updated monthly)
BAnQ classification plan
List of additions on the portal’s home page
Different lists of additions
List of BAnQ addresses
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14. Issues and Challenges Data use licencing
Difficulty quantifying the return on investment
Development of internal skills/required training
Lack of interest
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15. Issues and Challenges
Difficulty in concretely defining what this involves for the institution
Multiple simultaneous projects
Data cleansing
Mapping
Change in thinking
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16. Conditions for Success in Institutions
A champion to pave the way
Establishing links with educational institutions
Establishing partnerships
Attracting people with technical skills
Crossing the chasm with collaborative projects that take full advantage of the power of Linked Open Data
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17. Thank You for Your Interest
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