Keynote at Semantic Web in Libraries 2012

1. LODLAM: Fostering Global
Collaboration & Community
Semantic Web in Libraries
Cologne, Germany
27 November 2012
Jon Voss
Historypin Strategic Partnerships Director
We Are What We Do
jon.voss@wearewhatwedo.org
@jonvoss
@historypin
historypin.com

2. 1. Potential

4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohiouniversitylibraries/3485066089/

5. http://www.evolutionoftheweb.com

8. http://mashupbreakdown.com

9. The DJ in the Library?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ecocentrik/3349141618/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/liquidsunshine49/3084307107/

10. The DJ in the Library?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/d2s/8026439552 http://www.flickr.com/photos/d2s/8026434642

11. 2. Disparate Beginnings

14. 3. Early Use Cases

15. Jon, we archive things so that
people can find them...

16. photos by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE, TED

17. • Consider graph demo: http://civilwardata150.net
• Civil War vocabulary, or a way to link and traverse across datasets
• Regiments, Battles, Places
• Building apps that use this data

18. http://conflicthistory.com

19. http://dsl.richmond.edu/emancipation/

20. #fail
??

21. 4. Defining the Field

22. Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums
#LODLAM

23. http://lodlam.net

24. 5. Pulling Together

25. LODLAM Goals
- identification of tools and techniques for publishing
- drafting of precedents and policy for licensing and copyright of
metadata
- definitions and use cases to promote LODLAM internally

26. LODLAM Immediate Outcomes
- importance of getting together: SWIB, W3C, Sem Web, GLAMs
- tools for evangilization
- promote licensing for reuse of metadata (4-star Classification Scheme)

27. 6. Widening the Circle

28. San Francisco, DC, Atlanta, London, Wellington, New York,
Canberra, Melbourne, St. Louis
:)
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30. National
SemTech2011 (SF) Digital Forum
Digital (Wellington,
Library NZ)
SWIB11 Society of
Federation (Hamburg) American
Fall Forum Archivists 2011
2011 ALA 2011 (Chicago)
(Baltimore) Annual
Linked Data in Meeting
(New 1st Int’l Workshop on Semantic
Libraries 2011
(London) Orleans) Digital Archives (Berlin)
Museum Museums ALA 2012
ALA 2011 Computer and the Annual
Midwinter Network Web 2012 Meeting
Meeting ’11 (Atlanta) (San Diego) (Anaheim)
(Dallas)
SemTech2012 (SF)

31. National
SemTech2011 (SF) Digital Forum
Digital (Wellington,
Library NZ)
SWIB11 Society of
Federation (Hamburg) American
Fall Forum Archivists 2011
2011 ALA 2011 (Chicago)
(Baltimore) Annual
Linked Data in Meeting
(New 1st Int’l Workshop on Semantic
Libraries 2011
(London) Orleans) Digital Archives (Berlin)
Museum Museums ALA 2012
ALA 2011 Computer and the Annual
Midwinter Network Web 2012 Meeting
Meeting ’11 (Atlanta) (San Diego) (Anaheim)
(Dallas)
SemTech2012 (SF)

32. National
SemTech2011 (SF) Digital Forum
Digital (Wellington,
Library NZ)
SWIB11 Society of
Federation (Hamburg) American
Fall Forum Archivists 2011
2011 ALA 2011 (Chicago)
(Baltimore) Annual
Linked Data in Meeting
(New 1st Int’l Workshop on Semantic
Libraries 2011
(London) Orleans) Digital Archives (Berlin)
Museum Museums ALA 2012
ALA 2011 Computer and the Annual
Midwinter Network Web 2012 Meeting
Meeting ’11 (Atlanta) (San Diego) (Anaheim)
(Dallas)
SemTech2012 (SF)

33. 2010–2012
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0_use_for_data

34. :)

35. 7. Beyond the Hype

36. Publishers
Aggregators
Users &
Makers

37. Publishers

38. Aggregators

39. Users &
Makers
http://invisibleaustralians.org/faces/

40. Help?

41. 8. Staying Off the Ground

42. http://www.canadiana.ca/en/pcdhn-lod

44. http://openmetadatapathway.blogspot.com

45. http://openmetadatapathway.blogspot.com

46. http://openmetadatapathway.blogspot.com

47. http://timwray.net/2011/12/canvas/

48. http://discontents.com.au/words/conference-papers/small-
stories-in-a-big-data-world

49. 9. Summit 2013

51. http://summit2013.lodlam.net/challenge/

52. 10. Potential

53. vimeo.com/44801709