The long march towards a full-web-of-data infrastructure for french academic libraries. What has been done ? What has to be done ?

1. ABES & semweb
The long march towards
a full-web-of-data infrastructure
for french academic libraries
ABES - Yann NICOLAS #elag2014

5. Sudoc = french academic union catalogue

6. ABES = 3 + 1 databases

7. ABES web of data Linking to internal data as
important as to external data
-
Niklas Lindström / Yesterday
Dissertations
Books + serials
Manuscripts and archives
Authority data  the pivot

8. Data
Base
Format When
?
RDF
flavour
Dump ? SPARQL ? URI to
derefe
-rence
Liens
ext.
% of
native
data
±
Calames XML
(EAD)
2008 RDFa No No No * 40%
IdRef MARC 2010 RDF/XML Yes
(non yet
public)
No Yes ** 80%
Sudoc MARC 2011 RDF/XML
Microdata
Yes
(non yet
public)
No (but
in
progress
)
Yes ** 60%
theses.fr XML
(TEF)
2011 RDF/XML
RDFa
No No Yes ** 75%
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Opening our data with RDF (2008- )

9. Towards a full-web-of-data infrastructure,
at different levels,
at different paces

10. Towards a full-web-of-data infrastructure,
at different paces
Opening
. Each application has its own pace
. But they are converging

11. Towards a full-web-of-data infrastructure,
at different paces
Consuming
. We need others to open their reference data :
• ISSN registry
• French companies registry (INSEE)
• Research teams registry
• Publishers
• Etc.

12. Towards a full-web-of-data infrastructure,
at different paces
Managing
. ABES project : « hub of metadata »
. Processing and redistributing
some publisher metadata :
• www.licencesnationales.fr
• french publishers

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rdf
A
B
C
X
Y
Z
Publishermetadata
LOD,discotools…Catalogues

14. Towards a full-web-of-data infrastructure,
at different paces
Editing
. Emerging solutions : OntoWiki,
Bibframe editor, RDForms, Libris, etc.
. But should we edit data as RDF ?

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