Linking books: rda-frbr-lod

Linking books RDA – FRBR - LOD Lukas Koster Library Systems Coordinator Library of the University of Amsterdam http://www.uba.uva.nl @lukask RDA Seminar, Ingressus/OCLC, Rotterdam, November 2, 2011

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Agenda
RDA/FRBR – User Tasks
Functions of library/catalogue
Changing user needs
Examples/use cases
Linked Open Data and user needs
RDA/FRBR/LOD?
Options for libraries
‘ Recommendations’

RDA
Resource Description and Access

FRBR F unctional R equirements for B ibliographic R ecords Defined in relation to tasks performed by users when searching and making use of national bibliographies and library catalogues http://archive.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr_current2.htm#2.2

FRBR User Tasks
Find
Identify
Select
Obtain
Navigate

Original objective of libraries
Gateways to information
Printed material
Physical objects
On location
Bibliotheken en leeszalen in beeld, 1990

Focus on physical copies at hand Books Journal issues

FRBR
Group 1: What? W ork E xpression M anifestation I tem
Group 2: By who? P erson C orporate Body
FRAD Functional Requirements for Authority Data
Group 3: About what? C oncept O bject E vent P lace
FRSAD Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data
Title – Author - Subject

http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF © Library of Congress/Barbara Tillett

FRBR for books Editions Copies Original Adaptation Translation

FRBR Group 1 Entities - WEMI Manifestation Item Work Expression Catalogue

FRBR for journals Issues Articles Journal

FRBR Group 1 Entities - WEMI Issues Copies Catalogue Manifestation Item Work Expression Articles Journal ?

Changing information world WWW

People Objects Newspapers Museums Publishers Books Files Archives Libraries Digital Physical Images Text Memories Movies Music Sound Statistics Research Journals Data Maps Metadata Collections Buildings History Art Science Government Societies Stories Photos Reports Private Public Games Shows Education Nature Speech War Schools Love Theatre Poetry Location Fiction Facts Fantasy Animals

Changing user needs
Let’s explore….

Fiction Literature Painting Music Theatre Philosophy Archives History Images

Fiction

Fiction ISBN search

Fiction With fiction, customer mostly not interested in specific edition Just a copy in their language Movie? Da Vinci’s painting? FRBR? Samarcande – French/Belgian Union Catalogue project

Fiction Editions…. Movie? Only 1 dvd!

FRBR – Movie Work Expression An Expression of the Work A new Work

RDA – Movie (as Work)
…
Form of work : motion picture
…
Content type : two-dimensional moving image
…
Type of recording : digital
Media type : video
Carrier type : videodisc
Encoding format : DVD video
…
Work Expression Manifestation Physical copy

RDA – Movie (relations)
Related work : Remake based on the screenplay written by
‘ Based on novel written by Dan Brown’
Uniform resource locator : <web address, streaming video>
Related manifestation : Originally broadcast <date, media, ….>
Source consulted : IMDB <Title, Date, Description>
Source consulted : Wikipedia <Titel, Date, Description> + URL

And then there’s the painting

Fiction

Fiction ? No FRBR here ?

Literature Short descriptions of other Works Many authors Koninklijke Bibliotheek – National Library

Literature Content?

Literature Online exhibition Not linked from Catalogue http://www.kb.nl/galerie/literatuur/index.html

Literature Link back to catalogue record for compilation Link to original Work in catalogue

Philoso phy Reprints of original texts by Spinoza Biographic notes (original work by editor) Edition information

Philosophy Content? No information about Spinoza, historical, cultural background, influences

Painting Music Archives History Images People are interested in information, subject areas Not necessarily in traditional library items (publications, documents)

FRBR – so far so good?
Improvement: relations between editions, authors, subjects.
But: still focused on traditional library material
Publications (physical and digital)
Only library’s own holdings
Journals/articles?
Hierarchical, no horizontal relations
Document centric, not information centric

Linked (Open) Data – Why?
Make introverted systems extroverted
Combine information from different sources
Add value for users

Linked (Open) Data – How?
Make implicit links explicit
Add links to/from other sources
Use URIs
Use RDF/Triples
Use Open License

URIs
Unique identifiers on the web
Instead of internal database primary key
http://viaf.org/viaf/102403515 (Dan Brown)
http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W (The Da Vinci Code)

Triples
Subject - Predicate – Object
Thing – Relation - Thing
written by painted by is about author of painter of is subject of uri uri uri uri uri uri

Two sides Publish Consume

Theatre First edition More editions Authority info Theatre performance information!

Pilot project Linking library catalogue data to theatre performance data Dutch Digital Cultural Heritage Foundation DEN as instigator http://den.nl/ Library of the University of Amsterdam Theatre Institute of The Netherlands http://tin.nl/ http://www.uba.uva.nl/

Catalogue results No FRBR here ( yet )

Catalogue results

Theatre play
Samuel Beckett
En attendant Godot (1949)
Waiting for Godot – a tragicomedy in two acts (1952)
A country road
A tree
Evening
Men in bowler hats

Theatre context
PARADOX
Key concept: The Performance
Nothing remains, except ‘residuals’/’waste products’:
Memories
Souvenir brochures
Recordings
Objects
Texts
Reviews
Metadata

Theatre context

A theatre play data model ‘ Play ’

Theatre Things (Entities)
Authors, actors, producers, etc. ( persons )
Plays (shows)
Productions
Performances
Digital objects
Photos, posters, sound, video
Physical objects
Costumes, scenery, models, posters, photos, sound, video …

Library Things (Entities)
Authors ( persons )
Books/holdings/items ( plays )

Matching
Library catalogue results – Theatre production database results

What we made

How we did it - URIs < base-url >/person/Beckett, Samuel < base-url >/title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot JavaScript/JQuery HTML

How we did it – JavaScript/JQuery < base-url >/person/Beckett, Samuel < base-url >/title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot <base-url>/ production/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot/1988-11-22/6750 JavaScript/JQuery

Problems
No common identifiers
Aleph key ≠ key
No internal links to common entity
No central “ Work ”
String matching
Author: ‘ Samuel Beckett ’- ‘ Beckett, Samuel ’
Title: ‘ Waiting for Godot ’ – ’En attendant Godot ’
Copyright
Photos, videos, audio, artwork

Identifiers/URIs/String matching /title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot : a tragicomedy in two acts /title/Beckett, Samuel/En attendant Godot : pièce en deux actes /title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachten op Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting For Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachten op Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachtend op Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachten op Godot (De favorieten) /title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachten op Godot (eerste bedrijf) /title/Beckett, Samuel/En attendant Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Warten auf Godot

Ideally…. FRBR

Current situation Implicit relations

Can RDA help Library Linked Data?
In theory: yes
But with links/URIs instead of text strings
Internally: FRBR
Externally: Authority files

Can Linked Data help Libraries?
Linked Data in terms of FRBR:
Entry point, mainly:
Group 2: Who? FRAD - People
Group 3: About? FRSAD- Subject
Things associated with People/Subject:
Group 1: Publications
… and there is more…

Linked data options for libraries
Consume
Traditional cataloguing
Enrichment of existing catalogue data
Create new information aggregates (new!)
Publish (unique stuff)
Holdings/usage data
Special collections

Traditional cataloguing

‘ 1st edition 1956, 1st print of this edition 1965’ ‘ Original title: En attendant Godot’ Links as text strings

MARC
In MARC record:
Identifiers to Dutch union catalogue record
Author
Title

Triples written by painted by is about author of painter of is subject of uri uri uri uri uri uri

LOD and cataloguing written by painted by author of painter of is subject of http://permalink.opc.uva.nl/item/001665446 is about Manifestation Item Work Expression http://viaf.org/viaf/102403515 Dan Brown http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W The Da Vinci Code http://viaf.org/viaf/24604287 Leonardo da Vinci http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo_da_Vinci) The Last Supper Dutch translation De Da Vinci Code Holding OBA http://www.worldcat.org/libraries/57394 http://<expression-uri> http://<manifestation-uri> Library

Work Expression Manifestation http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W URI 650 $a 100 $a 245 $a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Supper_(Leonardo_da_Vinci) Subject http ://viaf.org/viaf/102403515 Author The Da Vinci Code Original Title http://<expression-uri> URI 245 $a De Da Vinci Code Title 546 $a dut (or: URI to language code) Language http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W Work 260 $c 2006 Date 260 $b http://isbndb.com/d/publisher/anchor_books.html Publisher http://<expression-uri> Expression http://<manifestation-uri> URI

Work Expression Manifestation Holding Item(s) Global bibliographic data Local holdings data http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W URI http://<expression-uri> URI http://openlibrary.org/works/OL76837W Work http://<expression-uri> Expression http://<manifestation-uri> URI http://<holding-uri> URI http://<manifestation-uri> Manifestation http://www.worldcat.org/libraries/57394 Library Availability http://<holding-uri> Holding http://<item-uri> URI

Unfortunately
Existing circumstances not suited for moving to Linked Cataloguing - RDA/FRBR/LOD:
Bibliographic formats (MARC)
Local library systems

What’s needed
Global Shared Bibliographic Metadata Store(s)
Global Shared Authority Files
Open Cataloguing systems
Supporting for linking with URIs

Manifestation Item Work Expression FRBR Group 1 FRBR Group 2 FRAD FRBR Group 3 FRSAD Holding Publishers Libraries

Enrichment of existing data

FRBR Links

http://search.obvsg.at/OBV FRBR

http://search.obvsg.at/OBV Text about author Embedded from DBPedia (Wikipedia Linked Data engine) Uses German National Library Author ID’s

Enrichment - Discovery front ends
Examples use Discovery front ends
Extra layer on top of processed catalogue metadata
Metadata are FRBRised, based on string matching
Linked data embedded using scripts/programming, manipulating HTML front end

Create new information aggregates

Subject: Anne Frank The girl The war The house The diary The book The movie The play About Library catalogue FRBR

New aggregations http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Timeline/#

LOCAH – Linking Lives Linked Open Copac Archives Hub http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/locah/ http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/ Publish linked data Archives+libraries Using Linked Data to create biographical resources http://archiveshub.ac.uk/linkinglives

Library options
Develop your own systems/communities/open source
Use existing commercial systems

Requirements/recommendations
System development skills/staff
Ask library systems vendors to adapt (next gen) systems to add:
FRBR/RDA/Linking architecture/infrastructure
LOD/RDF/URI Publishing options
LOD/RDF/URI Consuming options
W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group,
Report: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/XGR-lld-20111025/
IGeLU 2011 session Linked Data and Ex Libris products,
Summary slides: http://igelu.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Linked-data-and-Ex-Libris-products-Summary.pdf

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