Lucero Library Update 03/11/10

Linking University Content forEducation and Research Online http://lucero-project.info Owen Stephens 03/11/2010

“investigate andprototype the use of linked data technologies andapproaches to linking andexposing data for students and researchers” 2

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Linked Data• URI – Uniform Resource Identifier – “a simple and extensible means for identifying a resource” – A URL is a type of URI• RDF – Resource Description Framework – Uses URIs or Literals• Ontology – ‘a shared vocabulary, which can be used to model a domain’ 4

TitleAuthor

Publisher TitleGenre Author Price

Jane Eyre has a creator whose name is Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre Subject has a creator whose name is Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre Subject has a creator Predicate whose name is Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre Subject has a creator Predicate whose name is Charlotte Bronte Object

Jane Eyre has a creator whose name is Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre Subject has a creator whose name is Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyrehttp://www.gutenberg.org/files/1260/1260-h/ Subject1260-h.htm has a creatorhttp://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator Predicate whose name is Charlotte Bronte

OROArchive of  Library’s Course  Catalogue Material Of Digital  Content

Data from OpenLearn ORO Research  Content Outputs Archive of  Library’s Course  Catalogue Material Of Digital  Content A/V Material Podcasts iTunesU

DBPedia RAE Data from  OpenLearn ORO Research  Content Outputs Archive of  Library’s Course  Cataloguegeonames Material Of Digital  Content data.gov.uk A/V Material Podcasts iTunesU BBC DBLP

Salman Elahi Carlo Allocca  ((Ex)‐Dev) (Dev) Jane Whild Fouad Zablith (Admin) (Dev) Andriy Nikolov KMi Enrico Mo$a (linking) Mathieu d’Aquin (SGP) (PD) Arts Suzanne Duncanson‐Hunter John Wolﬀe Paul Lawrence Richard Nurse Owen Stephens ((ex‐)PM) Stuart Brown (PM) Com./ Student Comp. Non Scantlebury Data Owners Library  Services Arts SpecialistsSpecialists OU Library

The LUCERO Stack Applicaeons Organizaeonal  Research Data  Insetueonal repository data Technical 

Workflow for a given datasetLucero Core  ‐ Idenefy data Inieal Meeeng  ‐ Get sample dataTeam with Data  ‐ Idenefy Copyright IssuesData Owner Owner ‐ Idenefy possible links ‐ Idenefy users and usageLucero KMi  ‐ Find reusable ontologies Lucero Core Team ‐ Map onto the data Data Modeling  Data Modeling  Team sessions ‐ Idenefy uncovered parts ValidaeonLucero members ‐ Define URI Scheme Data Owner URI Creaeon  Lucero KMi  Development  Rules  Deployment Team of Extractor Definieon

First Version ofdata.open.ac.ukwith 2 datasets:ORO and Podcasts“data.open.ac.uk isthe ﬁrst site of itskind and is tobecome theprototype for manyother data.*.ac.uk”

Dataset: ORO• Open Research Online• Scientiﬁc publications with at least one member of the Open University as co-author• Original System based on ePrints• Export to RDF using the BiBO Ontology• Post-processing/cleaning• 13,283 Articles/12 Patents/340,000 triples

Dataset: Podcast• Extracted from RSS feeds at http:// podcast.open.ac.uk• Using W3C Media Ontology, FOAF, DCT, Media RDF, etc.• Provides connections to courses and topics• 1,664 Video Podcasts/1,325 Audio Podcasts/75,000 triples

Institutional Datasets• Study at the OU – Course.Module/Qualification descriptions – Links internal: podcast, books, people, faculties, … – Links external: geonames, topics, others?• Library catalogue – Publications, books, course material, to be clarified – Links internal: Video content, staff profiles, ORO… – Links external: BBC, DBPedia, other online libs, data.gov.uk…

Institutional Datasets• Staff proﬁle – Information about people, people decide what is public – Links internal: ORO, lib, Video, research data… – Links external: other people info online (FOAF)…• OpenLearn – Educational material, Open – Links internal: possibly everything – Links external: DBPedia, many others…• Estate Information – About building, spaces, campus and regional centers – Links internal: Units, people, … – Links external: location…

Research datasets• Looking at how speciﬁc research databases Web of data can beneﬁt from being linked to the institutional repositories• Case studies in Arts: – Classical Receptions in Drama and Poetry in English – Open Arts Archive OU linked  – Encyclopedia of Global Commodities data cloud – Hestia – Red Experience Database – The South-Asians Making Britain project• Initial discussions with all the projects and agreement on the next step Research • Next step: data access and modelling Data

Dissemination• Twitter – #luceroproject (and sometimes #projectlucero ;-) ) – Many RTs on project related tweets, especially on data.open.ac.uk• “Collecting material related to courses at The Open University” – Use case for W3C Library Linked data incubator group – http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/

Dissemination • http://lucero-project.info • http://data.open.ac.uk

Applications• Plan for development of speciﬁc applications targeting: – Students: in ﬁnding resources related to courses, topics, and helping selecting courses to enroll to – Researchers: Identify interesting connections/ research questions from research data linked to OU/external sources• Already a number of (more generic) applications emerging…

Dissemination• Seminar in KMi Podium 11:30 on 03/11/2010 – http://stadium.open.ac.uk/1570• Plan for a press release on data.open.ac.uk – As soon as course description is available

Lucero Library Update 03/11/10

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