1. Linked Open Data stuff Gordon Dunsire Opening Library Linked Data to National Heritage: Perspectives on International Practice (2nd Linked Open Data Conference), Edinburgh, 21 Sep 2012

2. Scope  Open, free  Highly selective  Wot I kno  Kind of stable  Lots of stuff is project-based …  Links to other stuff

3. General background, etc.  W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group  http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Mai n_Page#Reports http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Mai n_Page#Reports  W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF)  http://www.w3.org/RDF/ http://www.w3.org/RDF/

4. Datasets  British National Bibliography (BNB) - Linked Open Data  http://thedatahub.org/dataset/bluk-bnb http://thedatahub.org/dataset/bluk-bnb  Linked Data Service of the German National Library  http://www.dnb.de/EN/Service/DigitaleDienste/Linke dData/linkeddata_node.html http://www.dnb.de/EN/Service/DigitaleDienste/Linke dData/linkeddata_node.html  LOCAH project  http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/ http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/  DBPedia  http://dbpedia.org/About http://dbpedia.org/About

5. Element sets & value vocabularies  Open Metadata Registry  http://metadataregistry.org/ http://metadataregistry.org/  FRBR/FRAD/FRSAD family  http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/ http://iflastandards.info/ns/fr/  ISBD  http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/ http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/  RDA (in development)  http://rdvocab.info/ http://rdvocab.info/  Linked Open Vocabularies  http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/ http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/

6. Value vocabularies  Library of Congress Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies  http://id.loc.gov/ http://id.loc.gov/  LCSH, LCC, LCNAF, MARC codes, etc.  Dewey Decimal Classification  http://dewey.info/ http://dewey.info/  Universal Decimal Classification summary  http://udcdata.info/ http://udcdata.info/

7. Element sets  CIDOC Concept Reference Model  http://www.cidoc- crm.org/official_release_cidoc.html http://www.cidoc- crm.org/official_release_cidoc.html

8. Tools  W3C Semantic Web tools  http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Tools http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Tools  W3C LinkingOpenData  http://www.w3.org/wiki/SweoIG/TaskForces/Commu nityProjects/LinkingOpenData http://www.w3.org/wiki/SweoIG/TaskForces/Commu nityProjects/LinkingOpenData  Open Metadata Registry (for vocabulary management)  http://metadataregistry.org/ http://metadataregistry.org/  Knoodl  http://knoodl.com/ui/home.html http://knoodl.com/ui/home.html

9. Stuff I currently find useful  Notepad or other text editor  For non-XML serializations  W3C RDF Validation Service  http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/  IsaViz: A Visual Authoring Tool for RDF  http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/ http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/  Protégé source ontology editor  http://protege.stanford.edu/

10. And so on ….  And so on …

11. Issues  Global environment  Multilingual environment  Multi-domain environment  Archives, libraries, museums, … mappings!  Importance of branding (license, namespace)  Who said that?  Assessment of quality in a multi-voice environment  Trust  Importance of “authority” “control”  = Identity/Identifier management  Local vs global authorities (URIs)  “Record” is the old paradigm  Linked “statement” is the new  We all need to help each other (not alone any more)  We are all in this together, and so is our data