Authority Files and Web 2.0.
Presentation during the EDL Workshop "Extending the multilingual capacity of The European Library in the EDL project" in Stockholm 23.11.07
5. Term created for a O‘Reilly Conference 2005
Technics where already there:
Wikis
Blogs
Social Tagging
not only linking information / linking people
describe new ways of thinking services
10. Wikipedia
free encyclopedia
not free as beer, free as
speech
about 650.000 Article in
German-lang. Wikipedia
aprox. 175.000 about
Persons (25 %)
11. Metadata for Persons
created in 2005
for the German Wikipedia DVD Project of Directmedia
done by the community with a half automatic tool
in between in 8 languages
14. Way of the Cooperation
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article
15. Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article
16. Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
full PND-Data
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article
17. Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
full PND-Data
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article
18. Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
full PND-Data
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Entry of the PND-
Nationalbibliothek Number
Wikipedia
Person-article
19. Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
full PND-Data
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Entry of the PND-
Nationalbibliothek Number
Wikipedia
Person-article
Link
24. Results of the Cooperation
Over 38.000 link articles
A lot correction wishes for the PND
Wikipedia a good starting point for a search
Wikipedia users can very easy become library
users
27. Other Authority Files and Wikipedia
GKD: Institutions
100 links
finding the ID is very hard / no retrieval webservice
Complicated structure
28. Other Authority Files and
Wikipedia
SWD: Keywords
Already over 250 links
finding the ID is very hard / no retrieval webservice
Czech Names Authority Files
about 800 Links
40. Wikipedia:
An Authority File for the net?
very often linked
One theme - one article eg. Wiki
every wikipedia-link index an document with a theme
article in every language has a persistent URL
open for use in every context
43. Conclusions
Authority files can have a role in the web 2.0
there must be an open interface/ service for retrieval
everything that is indexed on the net with authority files
can be easy integrated in a federated search
44. Conclusions
Authority files can have a role in the web 2.0
there must be an open interface/ service for retrieval
everything that is indexed on the net with authority files
can be easy integrated in a federated search
O‘Reilly: You have to found ways that your data get
more important that more it will be used
47. And Now?
Let‘s get open!
Enable people to use your data and it will get more
important!
48. And Now?
Let‘s get open!
Enable people to use your data and it will get more
important!
Contact:
Patrick Danowski
patrick.danowski@sbb.spk-berlin.de
49. And Now?
Let‘s get open!
Enable people to use your data and it will get more
important!
Contact:
Patrick Danowski
patrick.danowski@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Tel +49 30 266 3536