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Establishing the Connection: Creating the Linked Open British National Bibliography Neil Wilson Head of Metadata Services Online Information Conference 30 November 2011 twitter.com/#!/BLMetadata

British Library Metadata Services Background ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

BL Metadata Services Stakeholder Relationships

Library Sector Relevance? Declining? Increasing? ,[object Object],[object Object]

Changing Expectations Putting Public Sector Data To Work ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Library Metadata The Promise of Linked Data ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

How Are We Meeting The Challenge? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What Have We Achieved? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Our Linked Data Journey… Why the British National Bibliography? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Our Linked Data Journey… Preliminaries ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Our Linked Data Journey… Additional Objectives ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Our Linked Data Journey… Migrating From a Flat Catalogue Card Model… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Our Linked Data Journey… To Something New…

Our Linked Data Journey… Selecting Sites To Link To (for mutual benefit) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Our Linked Data Journey… Matching & Generating Links ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Our Linked Data Journey… Embedding The Links

Our Linked Data Journey The MARC to RDF XML Conversion Workflow MARC to RDF XML Conversion Consists of multiple automated steps using a number of tools ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Where Did We Get To? Hosted on the Platform: bnb.data.bl.uk/sparql bnb.data.bl.uk/describe bnb.data.bl.uk/search . BNB Books 1950-2011 2.5 Million Records 80 Million Unique RDF Triples

Lessons Learned - Its a new way of thinking… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Lessons Learned – Data Issues ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Lessons Learned - Staff and Resource Issues ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Lessons Learned – Was It Worth It? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Our Linked Data Journey - Where Next? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Final Thoughts… ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

British Library Metadata Services Images from http:// twitter.com/#!/BLMetadata [email_address]

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