Presentation given by Jonathan Blackburn and Mason Hall at Electronic Resources and Libraries 2008.

1. A Matter of Semantics? Intelligence, Open Data and the Future of ERM Jonathan Blackburn Mason Hall

3. Overview

6. Who would do the work? ? ?

9. Why?

10. How?

11. So, began our quest . . .

12. So what is the problem?

13. Duplication of Data

14. KB (expanded academic) Open URL Resolver Database Finder Federated Search Other Web Services Licensing Manager Services require a Knowledge Base…

15. KB KB KB KB KB Open URL Resolver etc Database Finder Licensing Manager Federated Search Other Web Services etc … but the Reality is often a different beast

16. KB KB KB KB KB Open URL Resolver etc Database Finder Licensing Manager Federated Search Other Web Services etc Another Local SQL + Serials Solutions ERMS Local SQL SFX Metalib Varies @ FSU Libraries

17. FSU University A Consortia X

21. Is this a problem?

22. Is there a solution?

23. Solutions: Past and Future

27. “ Theoretical” Perfect System

30. What might this look like ?

32. Shared

34. Semantic

35. Semantic = Relationships A very brief lesson Triples Subject  Predicate  Object Publisher publishes Journal Vendor owns Database Article has author(s)

36. The Old (...current) Way Item Attributes Journal Name Publisher Subjects Frequency Etc.. ?

37. Semantic Way journal subjects alternate name published place name publisher date titled also titled published in has alternate published by published during covers publishes about

38. Semantic ERM DBs Providers Subjects Publishers Institutions Services Usage Stats Interface Rights Data Journals

40. The “Killer App”

42. WWW Mosaic

43. Library OKRA ? ? ?