2. A World of Linked Open Data: enabling data integration on the web National Library Museums National Archive Other..

3. Other Agency Collections Library Collection Museum Collection Archive Collection Un-linked closed data Collections are underutilised because they are not visible enough on the web Methods used by libraries, archives, museums, etc. to organise collections are bound to their collections but not to the larger Web

4. Application-specific Origins Tightly coupled, less re-usable data: One-time Use Deep Linking Front-end Focus Data Hardcoding

5. 5 Digitised Newspapers Legal Deposit Dublin Core Legal Deposit Dublin Core Authority records Infopedia HTML Pages Physical Collection MARC21 Physical Collection MARC21 Data.gov.sg Singapore Memory data.gov Europeana DBPedia BBC data.gov. uk National Archives ISAD-G National Archives ISAD-G Linked Data Platform Web Archives PictureSG Dublin Core PictureSG Dublin Core Speeches & Press Releases

8. ISBN- 9783775727693 Surrealism Max Hollein Ingrid Pfeiffer “278 p.” “29 cm” “Surreal objects: three dimensional works from Dali to Man Ray” Modern Sculpture Hatje Cantz Verlag “c2011” Ostfildern, Germany

9. ISBN- 9783775727693 Surrealism Max Hollein Ingrid Pfeiffer “278 p.” “29 cm” “Surreal objects: three dimensional works from Dali to Man Ray” Sculpture Hatje Cantz Verlag “c2011” Ostfildern, Germany Women’s Impressionists December 11, 2007 date Frankfurt place 48.72169.2751 Exhibition Catalogues Art Books

10. 10 FIND ANSWERS FASTER MORE VISIBILITY ONE DATUM, MANY STORIES ONE DATUM, MANY STORIES Linked Data

11. We would suggest search strategies for you but a comprehensive listing of resources would be beyond the scope of this service. To begin with, perhaps you can use the references in relevant books as a starting point to guide you to the right articles….. I am doing research on Singapore Port, about how the Singapore Government helped in setting the targets, bringing stability to the port, enforced the policies that helped to direct the port towards its prosperity now. The years I am focusing are from 1960s to the early 1990s. The materials I want to consider are mainly newspaper articles and some books. My Personal Experience in Information Seeking Researcher

12. 12 Library of Congress Spanish National Library British Library Swedish National Library German National Library The Open Library National Diet Library of Japan etc Data.gov Data.gov.uk DBPedia CIA Fact Book OpenCyc BBC NYTimes etc NLB NHB NAS etc.. Schema.org Back External Apps

13. Service idea Service idea  Information silos  Limited reuse  Information silos  Limited reuse 18 Months to 2 Years 13 NLB Internal Developers Community Weeks to Months Increased Breadth data.gov.uk Example NYTimes Example

14. 14 External Developers Researchers General Library User Staff – Librarians/Archivists

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22. 22 Through our libraries, we make knowledge come alive, spark imagination and create possibilities Linked Open Data

23. Bridging the Cultural Divide: Connecting Singapore Content to the World seamlessly Archives Libraries Museums Other Agencies Singapore Content The Power of One

24.  Mobile App  Web App Using 23 govt and 23 non-govt datasets 24 Current Projects: data.gov.sg Pilot

25. Current Projects: FamilyHistory Database o data transformation (Dublin Core) o named entity recognition (1,800 articles) o ontology : 340 classes/sub-classes & 320 relationships 25

26. Thank You.. for your attention haliza@nlb.gov.sg

27. 27 NLB Public Web Site Schema.org microformat 1 2 Indexing NLB Public Web Site 3 4 Search Load Back