by Bernard Scaife presented at COSI EMEA conference, York July 12, 2012.

1. Turning your catalogue
into Linked Data
Bernard Scaife – Technical Services Librarian
Open Education Metadata UK

2. Overview
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• What on earth is the Semantic web?
• Why bother?
• How do you do it?

3. What on earth is the
Semantic Web?
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4. Short History lesson
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• WWW invented (http)
• Growth / Commercialisation
• Ubiquity of Google
• Limitations of html
• Structure via XML
• But no authority control
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATim_Berners-
Lee.jpg]Tim Berners-Lee [CC BY-SA 2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], by Uldis Bojārs
(Flickr.), from Wikimedia Commons

5. Semantic web
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• Invented by (you guessed it!)
• Adding meaning to links using
“typing”
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ATim_Berners-
Lee.jpg]Tim Berners-Lee [CC BY-SA 2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], by Uldis Bojārs
(Flickr.), from Wikimedia Commons

6. Typing
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• Html links
• Semantic web links Subject – predicate - object
Jimmy Wales knows Angela Beesley
Jimmy Wales’s email address is jwales@bo

7. Typing
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Subject – predicate - object
Charles Dickens knew Elizabeth Gaskell
Charles Dickens wrote Bleak House

8. Why bother?
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• Demolishing data siloes
Libcat
Archives Newspapers
mySQL mySQL mySQL
mySQL

9. Why bother?
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• Playing the web scale game

10. A note on licences...
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• The link with open licences and why they matter
Source: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

11. Growth
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Source: http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/lodcloud/state/

12. Libraries and Linked Data
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• discovery.ac.uk

13. JISC 16/11
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• Digital Infrastructure Programme

14. OEM-UK
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• Open Education Metadata UK (OEM-UK)
http://ioeoemuk.wordpress.com/

15. OEM-UK
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• Four datasets – convert to Linked Open Data

16. OEM-UK
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• Cataloguing of Historical Textbooks and Exam Papers
pre-1950
• Low-barrier cataloguing process for rapid retrospective
conversion
• Creating linked data between the new datasets

17. How?
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18. Synchro
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19. COMET
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20. Exporting
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selcatalog -f"~ILLLIB,EQUIP,MEMO,ROOM,SELECT" -6"0" -oC |
catalogdump -h -j -n"oemjunktags" -t"926" -ka999 -om –z
Create custom export report

21. ftp the file
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getbibssymph.php

22. Copyright filtering
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To be done: Filter out copyrighted records

23. Transform 1
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Transform filtered records
from mrc to csv:
symphmarctocsv.php

24. Transform 2
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Transform from csv to xml: csvtoxpath.php

25. Create record type
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26. TEI feed
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27. SPARQL demo
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SELECT * WHERE { ?s <http://purl.org/dc/terms/title> "Provision for children
with speech and language needs in England and Wales :facilitating
communication between education and health services /James Law ... [et al.]"
. } LIMIT 10
<uri>http://23.21.173.236/drupal/ioelibcat/187189</uri>
DESCRIBE <http://23.21.173.236/drupal/ioelibcat/187189>

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