Report on the International Linked Open Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums Summit

Report on the International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives & Museums Summit
Linked Data and Libraries 2011
British Library, London
14th July 2011
Adrian StevensonLOD LAM Summit Steering Committee
UKOLN, University of Bath, UK

LOD LAM Summit
Summit held June 2-3rd in San Francisco
100 People from around the world
Organiser: Jon Voss + organising committee
Application process to attend
Generous funding
http://lod-lam.net/summit/

Organisations
Over 85 organisations represented
Libraries:
Library of Congress, French & German National Libraries, British Library, NYPL
Archives:
National Archives of the US and UK, Archives Hub, California Digital Library
Museums:
The Met, SFMOMA, Powerhouse, Smithsonian, UK Science Museum, Culture24
Lots of LOD LAM activity already
http://lod-lam.net/summit/participants/

LOD LAM Summit Aims
“catalyze practical, actionable approaches to publishing Linked Open Data”:
Identify the tools and techniques for publishing and working with Linked Open Data
Draft precedents and policy for licensing and copyright considerations regarding publishing of LAM metadata
Publish definitions and promote use cases to give LAM staff the tools to advocate Linked Open Data in their institutions

How the Summit was organised
Open Space Technology meeting format
Initial session where collaboratively create agenda
Then breakout sessions
Second day: focus on actions, documentation, & collaboration over next year

Sessions: LOD ABC
How to explain to non-techies
How do you assess cost of LOD?
What kind of training needed?
How to sell the idea?
LOD FAQ for Librarians, Archivists

Sessions: The Business Case for LOD

Sessions: Provenance/Scalability
Same issue with attribution
Solutions: Named graphs? Quads?
Best Practice

Session: Rights and Open Data
Proposed a ‘4-star classification-scheme for linked open cultural metadata’
★★★★ Public Domain (CC0 / ODC PDDL / Public Domain Mark)
★★★ Attribution License (CC-BY / ODC-BY) when the licensor considers linkbacks to meet the attribution requirement
★★ Attribution License (CC-BY / ODC-BY) with another form of attribution
★ Attribution Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA/ODC-ODbL)
More on Summit blog at http://bit.ly/qpbZ50

Session: Crowdsourcing LOD
Importance of quality interface
Ecosystem of interfaces to deal with problems - e.g. correct errors
Issues of provenance - expert, authoritative crowdsourced content vs general public contributions
What can crowdsourcing help with?
Start simple, then build on emergent behaviours?
Guidance needed on structured names for people and places

Session: Preservation of RDF, Vocabulary Maintenance
LOCKSS (Lots of copies keep stuff safe) for vocabularies?
Vocabulary management toolkit:
Metadata Registry.http://metadataregistry.org/
Drupal module. http://neologism.deri.ie/
http://vocab.org/
HIVE - Helping with Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering. http://hive.nescent.org:9090/home.html
Best practices for vocabulary alignment
When to use owl:sameAs, SKOS matches (skos:exactMatch, skos:closeMatch), rdfs:seeAlso
Workshop on this at DC2011

Session: Users and Uses
What user tools exist that we can build on?
BBC, Freebase, VIVO, Open Library, Zotero
Need open-ended tools - some things that people might want to do:
Corrections
Timelines, maps, views
Mashups
re-expose info
filter, sort
Visualize
Share
…

More Sessions …
Lots more sessions…
Schema.org
RDFaand ePub session
Utilising existing vocabs for modeling archives
Getting structured linked data out of LAMS
…..
More on the LOD LAM Pirate pad
http://bit.ly/lodlamnotes

What next?
Connections made and activities kick-started
Many more LOD LAM events planned
Tag: #lodlam
#lodlam #london
First meet yesterday
Bigger event planned for November
http://bit.ly/oJ6qsl

CC Licence
Sections of this presentation adapted from materials created by other LOD LAM Summit attendees
This presentation available under creative commonsNon Commercial-Share Alike:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/

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