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WWIC? linked library data as acustomer service medium @dchud - code4lib north - hamilton, on - 2011-05-06

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Why Wasn’t I Consulted? aka ‘WWIC’ - by Paul Ford

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WWIC == the web is forsharing opinions

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Linked Library Data aka ‘LLD’

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LLD ==the web is for sharing data

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sh w t a ra th ar eb is d fo g s e in in i r b d ? te a e g l h sus w Linked LibraryoData n o e C p h I t sn’t in Wa io y fo n h r s W

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WWIC => the web *isn’t* •a radio • a tv • a newspaper • an encyclopedia • a librarian

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WWIC => the web *is* a way to shareopinions and expertise

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thoughtful platforms foropinions and expertise

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if you’re building a website, ask yourself

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“How can people use it to share theiropinions and expertise about my stuff?”

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WWIChttp://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html

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LLDlinked library data

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use URIs as names for things use HTTP URIs provide useful information include links to other URIs http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

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an example ofwhat we used to build

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an example ofwhat we we build now

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Rembrandt at artic.eduauthority record at OCLC

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who’s linking to my stuffin wikipedia?

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Rembrandt in linkypedia

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Rembrandt from linkypedia

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Picasso: name variants, search links

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Picasso from more than linkypedia

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platform forfollowing your nose to cool stuff

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lovely, but

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WWIC?

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if we stop herewe’re missing something

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how can people use this to shareopinion and expertise ?

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LLD needsfeedback mechanisms

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comments? voting? q&a? edits?

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i tried editsusing version control

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w/MeSH

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MeSH Browser

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static up-to-dateopaque URIs read-only

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3 years of MeSH history as version-control-backed LLD

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dynamicup-to-date, plus history (mappably) cool URIs read/write

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cloneable forkableeditable locally pushable mergable etc.able

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not all roses

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uninteresting diffsawkward file names lots of files per dir serialization issues

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but lots of possibilities

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anybody could add comments

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anybody could clone for local use

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anybody could forkand submit patches

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but

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who would shareopinions and expertise?

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who would shareopinions and expertise?

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same people as do now

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Vegans!

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well,Vegans and catalogers.

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we do this work now in private, proprietary systems

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take back-room systems andput them on the web or, at least, output from them

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use URIs as names for things use HTTP URIs provide useful information include links to other URIs http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

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mix in versioning,commenting

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sh w t a ra th ar eb is d fo g s e in in i r b d ? te a e g l h sus w Linked LibraryoData n o e C p h I t sn’t in Wa io y fo n h r s W

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the w eb is sharin for the web is g data forsharing opi nionsLinked Library Data lted? on su sn’t IC W a W hy

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thanks!@dchud