Libraries and Linked Data: Looking to the Future (3)

Vocabularies, linking, and application programmingTOOLS FOR LLD

Things relationshipthing thing

types of things1. things we are describing/cataloging – either as subjects or objects2. relationships (were: data elements)3. controlled vocabularies

Library things Work Object PersonExpression Place FamilyManifestation Concept Corp Item Event

GENERAL TERMS ANDVOCABULARIES

Linked data cloudhttp://linkeddata.org

Linked Open Vocabularieshttp://labs.mondeca.com/dataset/lov/

Swooglehttp://swoogle.umbc.edu/

Swoogle

IDENTIFYING COMMON THINGS

Identifying People• Friend Of A Friend http://www.foaf-project.org/ – “foaf-a-matic” http://ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic/• Wikipedia – any person’s page URL• Worldcat Identities• New York Times http://data.nytimes.com• MusicBrainz http://musicbrainz.org• BBC• Virtual International Authority File (http://viaf.org)

Identifying Places• Geonames http://geonames/org/• Wikipedia• AGROVOC (FAO subject thesaurus) – http://aims.fao.org/standards/agrovoc/about• LCSH http://id.loc.gov/• BBC• New York Times

Identifying Topics• WikiSpecies• BBC Wildlife Ontology• National Agriculture Library Thesaurus• AGROVOC (FAO)• Various library subject thesauri (LC, Bnf, DNB, BNE, Japan)• Many, many more

Finding bibliographic data thedatahub.org/group/bibliographic

“id.loc.gov”

programmers and application developersDEVELOPMENT

Lists of toolsW3C Semantic Web tools – http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/Tools categories: APIs, converters, reasoners, programming environments, browser tools, social media, triple stores, validators, development environments

Lists of toolsSweet tools, by Mike Bergman http://www.mkbergman.com/sweet-toolscategories: agents, annotators, APIs, ontology creators, browser tools, application frameworks, converters…

Metadata developmentProtégé http://protégé.stanford.edu (free)

Thesaurus developmenthttp://poolparty.biz educational licensing

Programming Apache Jena http://jena.apache.org“Java framework for building Semantic Webapplications.”• Tutorial!• Getting started help!• Documentation!

Programming Pellet http://clarkparsia.com/pellet/“OWL2 Reasoner for Java”•Users group listserv.•Examples in download.•Commercial support available.

Programming Snoggle“a graphical, SWRL-based ontology mapper toassist in the task of OWL ontology alignment”

Programming Virtuoso SPARQL query editor http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com SPARQL by Examplehttp://www.cambridgesemantics.com/2008/09/sparql-by- example tutorial!

Thank you!… AND THAT’S JUST A TASTE

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