Presentation at the OCLC Linked Data Round Table Session - ALA Midwinter, Seattle, January 2013

1. ALA Midwinter - Seattle 26 January 2013
#oclcldrt
Library Linked Data
Progress
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
OCLC
@rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.

31. British Library Data Model
@prefix blt: <http://data.bl.uk/schema/bibliographic#> . Series Publication Events Key
event:Event
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
bibo:Series foaf:Agent External
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . dcterms:Agent An Instance Link
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> . MARC country code rdfs:subClassOf
A Class A Literal
@prefix isbd: <http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/elements/> . URI
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> . a
@prefix bibo: <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> . a geo:SpatialThing rdfs:label blt:PublicationEvent
@prefix rda: <http://RDVocab.info/ElementsGr2/> . rdfs:label foaf:focus
@prefix bio: <http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
bibo:issn
Author
@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> . rdfs:label
@prefix org: <http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> . Agent bio:Birth
Series GeoNames URI a
@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> . BL URI
BL URI
event:place
Place a
BL URI bio:Death a
LCSH URI if
available CalendarYear
event:agent bio:date
dct:isPartOf
event:place bio:date a
id.loc.gov URI for owl:sameAs a Birth BL URI
scheme rdfs:label
skos:inScheme
http://r.d.g/id/year/ Death BL URI
Topic LCSH dct:hasPart xxxx foaf:familyName
BL URI event:time PublicationEvent
a BL URI
blt:TopicLCSH
foaf:givenName
bio:event
rdfs:label
dct:BibliographicResource bio:event
rdfs:label foaf:name
rdfs:label bibo:Book
Person-as-Concept Person-as-Agent
rdfs:subClassOf a dct:subject BL URI
BL URI a foaf:Agent
a dct:creator dct:Agent
blt:PersonConcept blt:publication foaf:Person
skos:inScheme foaf:focus a
blt:hasCreated owl:sameAs
rdfs:subClassOf id.loc.gov URI for rdfs:label
scheme rda:periodOfActivityOfThePerson
rdfs:label dct:contributor
dct:subject
Skos:Concept blt:hasContributedTo
Family-as-Concept Resource VIAF URI if available
BL URI dct:subject
BL URI dct:creator
rdfs:subClassOf
a
blt:hasCreated Organization-as-Agent BL
skos:inScheme foaf:focus dct:subject URI
blt:FamilyConcept
dct:contributor
rdfs:label
blt:hasContributedTo
Family-as-Agent a
id.loc.gov URI for BL URI
scheme rdfs:label
[foaf:name]
rdfs:subClassOf foaf:Agent
dct:language dct:Agent
rdfs:label foaf:focus foaf:Organization
org:Organization
Organization-as-Concept Lexvo URI blt:bnb
blt:OrganizationConcept a dct:subject bibo:isbn10
BL URI bibo:isbn13
rdfs:label dct:subject dct:abstract
skos:inScheme foaf:focus
dct:tableOfContents
rdfs:subClassOf
isbd:P1008 dct:title
Identifiers
id.loc.gov URI for MARC language
code URI (edition statement)
scheme dct:spatial dct:alternative
blt:TopicDDC isbd:P1073 dct:description
a Dewey (note on language)
BL URI
skos:inScheme isbd:P1042
(content note)
Dewey Info URI for skos:broader isbd:P1053
Title
skos:notation (extent)
scheme Place-as-Concept
BL URI foaf:focus
Place-as-Thing
Dewey Info URI BL URI
a
owl:sameAs rdfs:label
rdfs:label Miscellaneous literals
a
rdfs:subClassOf
blt:PlaceConcept LCSH URI if
Subject available geo:SpatialThing
Tim Hodson - tim.hodson@talis.com
Corine Deliot - Corine.Deliot@bl.uk
dct:Location Alan Danskin - Alan.Danskin@bl.uk
V.1.01 Heather Rosie - Heather.Rosie@bl.uk
1st August 2011 Jan Ashton - Jan.Ashton@bl.uk

32. British Library Data Model
@prefix blt: <http://data.bl.uk/schema/bibliographic#> . Series Publication Events Key
event:Event
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
bibo:Series foaf:Agent External
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . dcterms:Agent An Instance Link
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> . MARC country code rdfs:subClassOf
A Class A Literal
@prefix isbd: <http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/elements/> . URI
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> . a
@prefix bibo: <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> . a geo:SpatialThing rdfs:label blt:PublicationEvent
@prefix rda: <http://RDVocab.info/ElementsGr2/> . rdfs:label foaf:focus
@prefix bio: <http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
bibo:issn
Author
@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> . rdfs:label
@prefix org: <http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> . Agent bio:Birth
Series GeoNames URI a
@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> . BL URI
BL URI
event:place
Place a
BL URI bio:Death a
LCSH URI if
available CalendarYear
event:agent bio:date
dct:isPartOf
event:place bio:date a
id.loc.gov URI for owl:sameAs a Birth BL URI
scheme rdfs:label
skos:inScheme
http://r.d.g/id/year/ Death BL URI
Topic LCSH dct:hasPart xxxx foaf:familyName
BL URI event:time PublicationEvent
a BL URI
blt:TopicLCSH
foaf:givenName
bio:event
rdfs:label
dct:BibliographicResource bio:event
rdfs:label foaf:name
rdfs:label bibo:Book
Person-as-Concept Person-as-Agent
rdfs:subClassOf a dct:subject BL URI
BL URI a foaf:Agent
a dct:creator dct:Agent
blt:PersonConcept blt:publication foaf:Person
skos:inScheme foaf:focus a
blt:hasCreated owl:sameAs
rdfs:subClassOf id.loc.gov URI for rdfs:label
scheme rda:periodOfActivityOfThePerson
rdfs:label dct:contributor
dct:subject
Skos:Concept blt:hasContributedTo
Family-as-Concept Resource VIAF URI if available
BL URI dct:subject
BL URI dct:creator
rdfs:subClassOf
a
blt:hasCreated Organization-as-Agent BL
skos:inScheme foaf:focus dct:subject URI
blt:FamilyConcept
dct:contributor
rdfs:label
blt:hasContributedTo
Family-as-Agent a
id.loc.gov URI for BL URI
scheme rdfs:label
[foaf:name]
rdfs:subClassOf foaf:Agent
dct:language dct:Agent
rdfs:label foaf:focus foaf:Organization
org:Organization
Organization-as-Concept Lexvo URI blt:bnb
blt:OrganizationConcept a dct:subject bibo:isbn10
BL URI bibo:isbn13
rdfs:label dct:subject dct:abstract
skos:inScheme foaf:focus
dct:tableOfContents
rdfs:subClassOf
isbd:P1008 dct:title
Identifiers
id.loc.gov URI for MARC language
code URI (edition statement)
scheme dct:spatial dct:alternative
blt:TopicDDC isbd:P1073 dct:description
a Dewey (note on language)
BL URI
skos:inScheme isbd:P1042
(content note)
Dewey Info URI for skos:broader isbd:P1053
Title
skos:notation (extent)
scheme Place-as-Concept
BL URI foaf:focus
Place-as-Thing
Dewey Info URI BL URI
a
owl:sameAs rdfs:label
rdfs:label Miscellaneous literals
a
rdfs:subClassOf
blt:PlaceConcept LCSH URI if
Subject available geo:SpatialThing
Tim Hodson - tim.hodson@talis.com
Corine Deliot - Corine.Deliot@bl.uk
dct:Location Alan Danskin - Alan.Danskin@bl.uk
V.1.01 Heather Rosie - Heather.Rosie@bl.uk
http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/pdfs/bldatamodelbook.pdf
1st August 2011 Jan Ashton - Jan.Ashton@bl.uk

33. British Library Data Model
@prefix blt: <http://data.bl.uk/schema/bibliographic#> . Series Publication Events Key
event:Event
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
bibo:Series foaf:Agent External
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . dcterms:Agent An Instance Link
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> . MARC country code rdfs:subClassOf
A Class A Literal
@prefix isbd: <http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/elements/> . URI
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> . a
@prefix bibo: <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> . a geo:SpatialThing rdfs:label blt:PublicationEvent
@prefix rda: <http://RDVocab.info/ElementsGr2/> . rdfs:label foaf:focus
@prefix bio: <http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> .
Author
@prefix foaf:
@prefix org:
@prefix geo:
@prefix blt: <http://data.bl.uk/schema/bibliographic#> .
@prefix event:
<http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
<http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> .
<http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> .
<http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> .
bibo:issn
Series
BL URI
GeoNames URI a
rdfs:label
Agent
BL URI
bio:Birth
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
event:place
Place a
BL URI bio:Death a
LCSH URI if
available CalendarYear
event:agent bio:date
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
id.loc.gov URI for
scheme
owl:sameAs
skos:inScheme
dct:isPartOf
rdfs:label
a event:place bio:date a
Birth BL URI
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
blt:TopicLCSH
a
Topic LCSH
BL URI
dct:hasPart
http://r.d.g/id/year/
xxxx event:time PublicationEvent
BL URI
Death BL URI
foaf:familyName
foaf:givenName
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
bio:event
rdfs:label
dct:BibliographicResource bio:event
rdfs:label foaf:name
@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
rdfs:subClassOf
blt:PersonConcept
rdfs:label
a
Person-as-Concept
BL URI dct:subject
a
bibo:Book
blt:publication dct:creator
Person-as-Agent
BL URI
a foaf:Agent
dct:Agent
foaf:Person
@prefix isbd: <http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/elements/> . skos:inScheme foaf:focus a
blt:hasCreated owl:sameAs
rdfs:subClassOf id.loc.gov URI for rdfs:label
scheme rda:periodOfActivityOfThePerson
rdfs:label dct:contributor
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
Skos:Concept
rdfs:subClassOf
Family-as-Concept
BL URI
dct:subject
dct:subject Resource
BL URI
blt:hasContributedTo
dct:creator
VIAF URI if available
a
@prefix bibo: <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> .
blt:FamilyConcept
skos:inScheme foaf:focus dct:subject
rdfs:label
blt:hasCreated
dct:contributor
Organization-as-Agent BL
URI
blt:hasContributedTo
@prefix rda: <http://RDVocab.info/ElementsGr2/> .
rdfs:subClassOf
id.loc.gov URI for
scheme
Family-as-Agent
BL URI rdfs:label
[foaf:name]
a
foaf:Agent
dct:language dct:Agent
@prefix bio: <http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> . rdfs:label foaf:focus
blt:bnb
foaf:Organization
org:Organization
Organization-as-Concept Lexvo URI
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
blt:OrganizationConcept a dct:subject bibo:isbn10
BL URI bibo:isbn13
rdfs:label dct:subject dct:abstract
skos:inScheme foaf:focus
dct:tableOfContents
@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> .
rdfs:subClassOf
id.loc.gov URI for
scheme dct:spatial
MARC language
code URI
isbd:P1008
(edition statement)
dct:title
dct:alternative
Identifiers
@prefix org: <http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> .
blt:TopicDDC
skos:inScheme
a Dewey
BL URI
isbd:P1073
(note on language)
isbd:P1042
dct:description
(content note)
@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> .
Dewey Info URI for
scheme
skos:notation
skos:broader
Place-as-Concept
BL URI
isbd:P1053
(extent)
Title
foaf:focus
Place-as-Thing
Dewey Info URI BL URI
a
owl:sameAs rdfs:label
rdfs:label Miscellaneous literals
a
rdfs:subClassOf
blt:PlaceConcept LCSH URI if
Subject available geo:SpatialThing
Tim Hodson - tim.hodson@talis.com
Corine Deliot - Corine.Deliot@bl.uk
dct:Location Alan Danskin - Alan.Danskin@bl.uk
V.1.01 Heather Rosie - Heather.Rosie@bl.uk
http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/pdfs/bldatamodelbook.pdf
1st August 2011 Jan Ashton - Jan.Ashton@bl.uk

36. Linked Data
The world’s libraries. Connected.

37. Linked Data
• 273+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Library
The world’s libraries. Connected.

38. Linked Data
• 273+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Library
• Embedded RDFa
The world’s libraries. Connected.

39. Linked Data
• 273+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Library
• Embedded RDFa
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
The world’s libraries. Connected.

40. Linked Data
• 273+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Library
• Embedded RDFa
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
• License: ODC-BY
The world’s libraries. Connected.

41. Linked Data
• 273+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Library
• Embedded RDFa
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
• License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.

58. Linked Data
• 273+ Million resources
• Schema.org + Library
• Embedded RDFa
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
• License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.

59. Linked Data
• 273+ Million resources Download file
• Schema.org + Library • Most widely held works
(250+ holdings)
• Embedded RDFa
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
• License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.

60. Linked Data
• 273+ Million resources Download file
• Schema.org + Library • Most widely held works
(250+ holdings)
• Embedded RDFa
• 1.2 Million resources
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH (80 million triples)
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST
• License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.

61. Linked Data
• 273+ Million resources Download file
• Schema.org + Library • Most widely held works
(250+ holdings)
• Embedded RDFa
• 1.2 Million resources
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH (80 million triples)
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST • Schema.org + Library
• License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.

62. Linked Data
• 273+ Million resources Download file
• Schema.org + Library • Most widely held works
(250+ holdings)
• Embedded RDFa
• 1.2 Million resources
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH (80 million triples)
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST • Schema.org + Library
• License: ODC-BY • License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012
The world’s libraries. Connected.

63. Linked Data
• 273+ Million resources Download file
• Schema.org + Library • Most widely held works
(250+ holdings)
• Embedded RDFa
• 1.2 Million resources
• Links to: Dewey, LCSH (80 million triples)
LCNAF, DOI, VIAF, FAST • Schema.org + Library
• License: ODC-BY • License: ODC-BY
• Experimental - June 2012 • August 2012
http://worldcat.org http://purl.oclc.org/dataset/WorldCat
The world’s libraries. Connected.

64. is

65. is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange

66. is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange - No

67. is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange - No
• For sharing library data with the world

68. is
good enough ?
• For library data exchange - No
• For sharing library data with the world - Almost

71. http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex
• Short lived group
• Libraries, Publishers, Consumers, System Vendors, Linked Data, Standards Bodies
• Library is only one focus

73. It is the foundation for the future of
bibliographic description that happens on, in,
and as part of the web and the networked
world we live in.

74. bibliographic description as part of the web

75. complimentary
bibliographic description as part of the web

76. complimentary
bibliographic description as part of the web
Challenges for change?

77. complimentary
bibliographic description as part of the web
Challenges for change?
bibliographic item metadata
bibliographic searching for works
all types of material - print/e/digital

78. ALA Midwinter - Seattle 26 January 2013
#oclcldrt
Library Linked Data
Progress
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
OCLC
@rjw
The world’s libraries. Connected.