Authority Files and Web 2.0
Wikipedia and the PND. An Example
Patrick Danowski
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Web 2.0

Web 2.0

Web 2.0

Term created for a O‘Reilly Conference 2005
Technics where already there:
Wikis
Blogs
Social Tagging
not only linking information / linking people
describe new ways of thinking services

Web 2.0
Principles
Interactive
User contribution &
feedback
Open services
Reuse / Remix Culture

Web 2.0
Principles
Interactive
User contribution &
feedback
Open services
Reuse / Remix Culture

Wikipedia
free encyclopedia
not free as beer, free as
speech
about 650.000 Article in
German-lang. Wikipedia
aprox. 175.000 about
Persons (25 %)

Metadata for Persons
created in 2005
for the German Wikipedia DVD Project of Directmedia
done by the community with a half automatic tool
in between in 8 languages

Metadata
WIKIPEDIA-METADATA
NAME=Müller, Gerd
ALTERNATIVNAMEN=eigentl.
Gerhard Müller
KURZBESCHREIBUNG=deutscher
Fußballspieler
GEBURTSDATUM=[[3. November]] [[1945]]
GEBURTSORT=[[Nördlingen]], [[Bayern]]
STERBEDATUM=
STERBEORT=

Metadata
WIKIPEDIA-METADATA PND-DATARECORD
IDN 118737465
NAME=Müller, Gerd
005 Tp
ALTERNATIVNAMEN=eigentl. 011 /s/f
Gerhard Müller
012 /svw
KURZBESCHREIBUNG=deutscher
Fußballspieler 014 1250:01-07-88
021 4102290-7
GEBURTSDATUM=[[3. November]] [[1945]]
100 Müller, Gerd
GEBURTSORT=[[Nördlingen]], [[Bayern]]
101 |a|Sport-B.
STERBEDATUM=
200 Müller, Gerhard
STERBEORT=
300 |a|1945-
310 |j|Dt. Fußballspieler
810 34.3p

Way of the Cooperation
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article

Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article

Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
full PND-Data
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article

Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
full PND-Data
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Wikipedia
Person-article

Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
full PND-Data
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Entry of the PND-
Nationalbibliothek Number
Wikipedia
Person-article

Way of the Cooperation
Search after Persons
Wikipedia-
Persondata-Tool
full PND-Data
Online-Catalog
of Deutsche
Entry of the PND-
Nationalbibliothek Number
Wikipedia
Person-article
Link

Technical Realization

Technical Realization

Article Source

Article

Results of the Cooperation
Over 38.000 link articles
A lot correction wishes for the PND
Wikipedia a good starting point for a search
Wikipedia users can very easy become library
users

Prototyp eines Linkresolvers
http://wikimeta.de/pnd/?pnd=118578537

Other Authority Files and Wikipedia

Other Authority Files and Wikipedia
GKD: Institutions
100 links
finding the ID is very hard / no retrieval webservice
Complicated structure

Other Authority Files and
Wikipedia
SWD: Keywords
Already over 250 links
finding the ID is very hard / no retrieval webservice
Czech Names Authority Files
about 800 Links

Social Tagging

What is a Tag?

What is a Tag?

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Social Literature Management
bibsonomy, citeUlike, Connotea

Social Literature Management
bibsonomy, citeUlike, Connotea

Social Literature Management
bibsonomy, citeUlike, Connotea

Social Literature Management
bibsonomy, citeUlike, Connotea

Social Tagging and Authority Files

Wikipedia:
An Authority File for the net?
very often linked
One theme - one article eg. Wiki
every wikipedia-link index an document with a theme
article in every language has a persistent URL
open for use in every context

Conclusions
Authority files can have a role in the web 2.0

Conclusions
Authority files can have a role in the web 2.0
there must be an open interface/ service for retrieval

Conclusions
Authority files can have a role in the web 2.0
there must be an open interface/ service for retrieval
everything that is indexed on the net with authority files
can be easy integrated in a federated search

Conclusions
Authority files can have a role in the web 2.0
there must be an open interface/ service for retrieval
everything that is indexed on the net with authority files
can be easy integrated in a federated search
O‘Reilly: You have to found ways that your data get
more important that more it will be used

And Now?

And Now?
Let‘s get open!

And Now?
Let‘s get open!
Enable people to use your data and it will get more
important!

And Now?
Let‘s get open!
Enable people to use your data and it will get more
important!
Contact:
Patrick Danowski
patrick.danowski@sbb.spk-berlin.de

And Now?
Let‘s get open!
Enable people to use your data and it will get more
important!
Contact:
Patrick Danowski
patrick.danowski@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Tel +49 30 266 3536