Joss Winn Paul Stainthorp
“Bibliografreedom”
Liberating library catalogue data to the
semantic web with WordPress MU
…a work in progress

Hello
• Joss Winn
• Technology Officer, University of Lincoln
• jwinn@lincoln.ac.uk
• http://joss.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/
• Twitter @josswinn
• Paul Stainthorp
• E-resources Librarian, University of Lincoln
• pstainthorp@lincoln.ac.uk
• http://blogs.library.lincoln.ac.uk/
• Twitter @pstainthorp

The elements
• Source library catalogue(s)
• WordPress Multi-user (WPMU)
• Scriblio – example (Plymouth State Uni.)
• Site-wide tags – example (Uni. of Lincoln)
• Triplify output – example

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USERS (discovery / interaction)
behalf of
Scriblio (aggregated; site-wide) libraries
Wordpress Multi-user (WPMU)
Scriblio Scriblio Scriblio
Managed by
each library
OPAC OPAC OPAC
Library “A” Library “B” Library “C”

Benefits
• A quick ‘n’ dirty Library 2.0 OPAC
• Easy incorporation of 3rd-party
enhancements (Amazon etc.)
• A devolved Union Catalogue; each source
catalogue managed by its owners
• The WordPress ‘ecosystem’
• Liberation of bibliographic data to the
semantic web
• Then what…?
What could you do with OPAC RDF data?

To-do list
• Scriblio is not very ‘atomic’ – ‘blobs’ of
data not ideal for semantic web approach
• Scriblio project is still a bit ‘raw’ – better
catalogue imports and documentation
• Triplify config file still needs customising to
make the most of Scriblio
• Needs source material! Libraries willing to
maintain a Scriblio version of their OPAC

Joss Winn
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Paul Stainthorp