1. The Strongest Link: Libraries and the Web of Linked Data Gillian Byrne & Lisa Goddard Memorial University of Newfoundland Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries 2010 Trondheim, Norway - April 2010

2. What do Libraries need to do? 1.Use the RDF data model to publish structured data on the Web. 2. Use RDF links to interlink data from different data sources.

3. Library RDF Converters

4. MARC to RDF

5. OAI to RDF

6. Dublin Core to RDF DC Elements xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elem ents/1.1/ DC Terms xmlns:dcterms=“http://purl.org/dc /terms/” DC Abstract Model xmnls:dcam=“http://purl.org/dc/d cam/

7. Simile RDFizers

8. RDF Publishing Tools Many popular web publishing tools now have RDF & semantic capabilities.

9. Semantic Blogging: Zemanta

10. Related Media Related Tags Related Articles

11. Semantic MediaWiki

15. Drupal 6 CMS

16. Drupal 7 with RDFa

18. Library RDF Publishing Tools

19. Dspace & RDF

20. Fedora & RDF

23. Eprints & RDF

25. Libraries & RDF Plenty of tools already exist to allow libraries to expose data as RDF. Become aware, experiment, work with vendors to develop semantically compliant tools.

26. RDF Linking

27. Linking Hubs

28. Library Linking Hubs Reuse existing URIs for entities & concepts. Connect resources to external data published by other data sources.

29. Subject linking: loc.id.gov

30. Virtual International Authority File

31. RDF Book Mashup

32. Linked Periodicals Data

33. RKBExplorer - Publication

34. RKBExplorer - Person

35. RKBExplorer - Organization

37. What’s the promise? Better, smarter discovery Enriched content Enhanced personalization

38. Smarter linking

39. Data integration Library Catalogue ERM Database ISxNs, OCLC Numbers, Title Library Catalogue ERM Database Ontologies

40. Madonna at Raphael's nightclub (NSFW) Raphael's Madonna (NSFW) Disambiguation

41. Related Works to Relationships

42. Enriched content http://richard.cyganiak.de/2007/10/lod/

43. Julie Student Is patron type Takes course Has major History Citation Has reading Hist102 Enhanced personalization

44. The Holy Grail?

45. What are the obstacles? Trust Data ownership It’s…well…hard

46. Trust The largest hurdle to library adoption of Linked Data, though, may not be educational or technological …The sticking point for librarians may be an issue of trust. - Ross Singer, “Linked Data Now!”

47. Data ownership Library Catalogue Digital Archive Database Repository Ejournal

48. Rocking the foundations MARC RDA DCMI/RDA Task Group

49. What can we do…now? Eric Miller noted in a 2004 talk that libraries have four major roles in the semantic web: 1.exposing collections – use Semantic Web technologies to make content available; 2.web'ifying thesaurus/mappings/services; 3.sharing lessons learned; 4.persistence.

50. Exposing collections

51. web'ifying thesaurii, etc.

52. Sharing lessons

53. Persistence