Presented at CIG Scotland's Metadata & Linked Data Seminar : projects, experiments and services in Libraries, 12th of September 2016, Edinburgh

1. What can linked data do for me?
Janet Aucock
Head of Metadata and Content Acquisition
ja@st-andrews.ac.uk
CIGS Metadata and Linked Data: projects,
experiments and services in libraries
Edinburgh, 12 September 2016

6. Miss Bathman Lean / Photo c.1870. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.,
25 May 2016.
http://quest.eb.com/search/109_159852/1/109_159852/cite. Accessed 26 Aug 2016.
RDF 1.1 XML
Syntax
SPARQL end
point
How many
URIs can I get
created today?

7. "Linking Open Data cloud diagram 2014,
by Max Schmachtenberg, Christian Bizer,
Anja Jentzsch and Richard Cyganiak.
http://lod-cloud.net/"

8. • Dunce, Brian Diskin, (b.20th C./American), Drawing . Fine Art. Britannica
ImageQuest. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 25 May 2016.
http://quest.eb.com/search/107_3348023/1/107_3348023/cite. Accessed
28 Aug 2016.

9. What is that researcher
really called? His name is
like this in the catalogue
but is like this in the
repository? How do I fix
it? I have the same issue
with names for funders.
Can we enrich our
catalogue interface
and make use of
those rich Rare books
records
How can we better
support research and
discovery of our
resources?
Why can’t I get our archives
metadata and photographic
database metadata into our
Discovery service and link people,
names, places and topics together
and make them cross searchable
and more easily discoverable and
connected together in context
Can we add value to our E-theses
service in the St Andrews Research
Repository. We add LCSH and LC
classification, could we use this
somehow?
Why does the
Discovery service not
offer any sort of
authority control on
names?
Why is the catalogue
data from the LMS
never up to date in
the Discovery service?

10. http://arts.st-
andrews.ac.uk/digitalhumanities/fedora/repository/digitalcollections%3Aroot
https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/
http://library.st-andrews.ac.uk/
https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/collections/archives/
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/photographic/imu.php?request=home

11. Find some use cases

15. Text mining. Reciprocal linking?
British Library and National Compound
Collection Initiative
c. 100 open access theses made available to
the RSC project in 2014 and compounds
deposited in ChemSpider
http://www.chemspider.com/
http://www.chemspider.com/Thesis.aspx?thesi
s_id=692
http://www.chemspider.com/Thesis.aspx?thesi
s_id=687

17. Three Library systems from the
SCURL Library Management Services Platforms Framework
• Linked data and Alma and Primo
http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/category/LinkedDataDiscussionPaper
• Linked data and OCLC https://www.oclc.org/en-UK/data.html
• Linked data and Innovative
https://www.iii.com/sites/default/files/InformationTodayMay2015LinkedDataforLib
raries.pdf
https://www.iii.com/sites/default/files/Innovative%20Linked%20Data%20FAQ.pdf
Linked (Open) Data Support within DSpace
Starting with DSpace 5.0, DSpace provides support for publishing stored contents in
form of Linked (Open) Data.
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/Linked+(Open)+Data

18. There are opportunities
• Build tools to create the linked data into our existing systems,
where we have our rich and well constructed data
• Let the data flow freely and be reused across interconnecting
systems
• Build the use cases into our existing requirements and get this
into our strategies and planning

19. Janet Aucock
Head of Metadata and Content
Acquisition
ja@st-andrews.ac.uk