Richard Wallis is a technology evangelist who works on semantic technologies and linked data. He gave a presentation in June 2012 about cultural linked data and how libraries, archives, and museums can help provide the backbone of information on the Web of Data, similar to how they have historically served as the backbone of information for centuries in other formats.

1. Richard Wallis - so who is he?
Semantic Tech The Cultural Linked Data
& Business Backbone
June 2012
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
richard.wallis@oclc.org
@rjw

2. Richard Wallis - so who is he?

3. Backbone ?

4. Backbone ?

5. Backbone ?
... the backbone of
information for centuries

6. Backbone ?
Libraries Archives
Museums
... the backbone of
information for centuries

7. Libraries Archives
Museums
... today on the Web?

9. DBpedia

10. Backbone Resources

11. Backbone Resources
• Government

12. Backbone Resources
• Government
• Media

13. Backbone Resources
• Government
• Media
• Science

14. Backbone Resources
• Government
• Media
• Science
• Libraries ?

23. 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 BL URI
@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> .
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

24. 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 blt: <http://data.bl.uk/schema/bibliographic#> .
@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/> . Author bibo:issn
@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> . rdfs:label
Agent bio:Birth
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix org: <http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> . GeoNames URI
@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> . Series a BL URI
BL URI
event:place
Place a
BL URI bio:Death a
LCSH URI if
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
id.loc.gov URI for
available
owl:sameAs
dct:isPartOf
CalendarYear
a event:place
event:agent
bio:date a
Birth BL URI
bio:date
rdfs:label
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
scheme
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
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . rdfs:label
dct:BibliographicResource
rdfs:label
bio:event
bio:event
foaf:givenName
foaf:name
@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
rdfs:subClassOf
rdfs:label
a
Person-as-Concept
BL URI dct:subject
a
bibo:Book
dct:creator
Person-as-Agent
BL URI
a foaf:Agent
dct:Agent
blt:PersonConcept blt:publication foaf:Person
@prefix isbd: <http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/elements/> .
rdfs:subClassOf id.loc.gov URI for
scheme
skos:inScheme
rdfs:label
foaf:focus a
blt:hasCreated
rda:periodOfActivityOfThePerson
owl:sameAs
rdfs:label
dct:contributor
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
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
@prefix bibo: <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/> .
blt:FamilyConcept
skos:inScheme foaf:focus dct:subject
rdfs:label
blt:hasCreated
dct:contributor
blt:hasContributedTo
Organization-as-Agent BL
URI
Family-as-Agent a
@prefix rda: <http://RDVocab.info/ElementsGr2/> .
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
@prefix bio: <http://purl.org/vocab/bio/0.1/> .
blt:OrganizationConcept a Organization-as-Concept
BL URI
dct:subject
Lexvo URI blt:bnb
bibo:isbn10 bibo:isbn13
org:Organization
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
rdfs:subClassOf
rdfs:label
Identifiers
skos:inScheme
dct:subject
foaf:focus
dct:abstract
dct:tableOfContents
isbd:P1008 dct:title
@prefix event: <http://purl.org/NET/c4dm/event.owl#> .
blt:TopicDDC
id.loc.gov URI for
a
scheme
Dewey
dct:spatial
MARC language
code URI (edition statement)
isbd:P1073
(note on language)
dct:description
dct:alternative
BL URI
@prefix org: <http://www.w3.org/ns/org#> .
Dewey Info URI for
skos:inScheme
Title
skos:notation
skos:broader
isbd:P1042
(content note)
isbd:P1053
scheme Place-as-Concept (extent)
@prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> . Dewey Info URI
a
BL URI
owl:sameAs
foaf:focus
Place-as-Thing
BL URI
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

27. Libraries Archives
Museums
... the cultural
backbone
of the Web of Data?

28. Richard Wallis - so who is he?
Semantic Tech The Cultural Linked Data
& Business Backbone
June 2012
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
richard.wallis@oclc.org
@rjw