The document summarizes the Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives & Museums Summit held in June 2011 in San Francisco. Over 100 people from over 85 organizations participated, including major libraries, archives, and museums. The summit aimed to advance the publication and use of Linked Open Data among cultural heritage institutions. Participants discussed topics like explaining Linked Data to non-technical staff, assessing the costs and benefits, licensing and rights issues, crowdsourcing, vocabulary maintenance, and user tools. Next steps include further events and collaborations to continue developing Linked Open Data practices in cultural heritage organizations.

1. 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

2. 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/

3. 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/

4. 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

5. 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

8. 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

9. Sessions: The Business Case for LOD

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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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 …

15. 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

16. 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

18. 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/