This document provides instructions for exploring digital libraries. It asks the reader to search for definitions of digital libraries, explore some large digital libraries like the Digital Public Library of America, and evaluate the design, usability, and contents of a smaller, specialized digital library. The reader is directed to analyze aspects like the mission, available items, search functionality, social media connections, potential improvements, and target audiences for the smaller digital library they investigate.
Free Primary Sources: dp.la, european.eu, and the Magic of Metadata Harvesters Nicholas Schiller
Linked open data is making huge strides in providing access to primary source materials. The digital holdings of a massive number of galleries, archives, libraries, and museums are now freely accessible. Expensive subscriptions or access to research-level collections are not needed to access a wealth of digital items unavailable just a few years ago.
This presentation will demonstrate the amazing things available through metadata harvesters such as europeana.eu and dp.la, provide navigation tips for finding primary source materials, and describe the core metadata protocol and technology that makes the magic possible.
Extending DBpedia with Wikipedia List PagesHeiko Paulheim
Thanks to its wide coverage and general-purpose ontology, DBpedia is a prominent dataset in the Linked Open Data cloud. DBpedia's content is harvested from Wikipedia's infoboxes, based on manually created mappings. In this paper, we explore the use of a promising source of knowledge for extending DBpedia, i.e., Wikipedia's list pages. We discuss how a combination of frequent pattern mining and natural language processing (NLP) methods can be leveraged in order to extend both the DBpedia ontology, as well as the instance information in DBpedia. We provide an illustrative example to show the potential impact of our approach and discuss its main challenges.
Free Primary Sources: dp.la, european.eu, and the Magic of Metadata Harvesters Nicholas Schiller
Linked open data is making huge strides in providing access to primary source materials. The digital holdings of a massive number of galleries, archives, libraries, and museums are now freely accessible. Expensive subscriptions or access to research-level collections are not needed to access a wealth of digital items unavailable just a few years ago.
This presentation will demonstrate the amazing things available through metadata harvesters such as europeana.eu and dp.la, provide navigation tips for finding primary source materials, and describe the core metadata protocol and technology that makes the magic possible.
Extending DBpedia with Wikipedia List PagesHeiko Paulheim
Thanks to its wide coverage and general-purpose ontology, DBpedia is a prominent dataset in the Linked Open Data cloud. DBpedia's content is harvested from Wikipedia's infoboxes, based on manually created mappings. In this paper, we explore the use of a promising source of knowledge for extending DBpedia, i.e., Wikipedia's list pages. We discuss how a combination of frequent pattern mining and natural language processing (NLP) methods can be leveraged in order to extend both the DBpedia ontology, as well as the instance information in DBpedia. We provide an illustrative example to show the potential impact of our approach and discuss its main challenges.
The Power of Sharing Linked Data: Giving the Web What It WantsNASIG
The Web is changing. Search engines are placing more emphasis on identified entities and the relationships between them - so called Semantic Search. Google, Bing, Yahoo! and others are at different stages in the implementation of Knowledge Graph functionality. Wikidata is applying structured data techniques to organizing the world's information.
Against that background, the library community can capitalize on these developments to ensure that our resources are visible in the emerging Web of Data, significantly enhancing their discoverability. To achieve this there needs to be fundamental changes in the way libraries, and their systems, share information about what they hold and what they license. No longer can we expect library data to be treated as a special case. No longer can we expect our users to find our library discovery interface as a prerequisite to discovering our library's resources. If we want our resources to appear in the daily search workflow of our users, we need to be represented in the tools they use for everything else.
Using linked data principles to share information from individual libraries, using general-purpose vocabularies such as Schema.org, will mean that the search engines will be aware of what we have to offer and where to guide users to access it. By giving the Web what it wants in the way that it wants it, libraries will be able to use the Web to inform their users, relieving them of the need to use a library specific interface to discover library resources.
Richard will explore early examples of these techniques and what libraries and system suppliers will need to consider to take advantage of these trends in the future.
He will then lead an open discussion on the many concerns, issues, challenges, opportunities and benefits that naturally emerge from proposing fundamental changes such as these.
Presenter:
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist, OCLC
The Power of Sharing Linked Data: Giving the Web What It WantsNASIG
The Web is changing. Search engines are placing more emphasis on identified entities and the relationships between them - so called Semantic Search. Google, Bing, Yahoo! and others are at different stages in the implementation of Knowledge Graph functionality. Wikidata is applying structured data techniques to organizing the world's information.
Against that background, the library community can capitalize on these developments to ensure that our resources are visible in the emerging Web of Data, significantly enhancing their discoverability. To achieve this there needs to be fundamental changes in the way libraries, and their systems, share information about what they hold and what they license. No longer can we expect library data to be treated as a special case. No longer can we expect our users to find our library discovery interface as a prerequisite to discovering our library's resources. If we want our resources to appear in the daily search workflow of our users, we need to be represented in the tools they use for everything else.
Using linked data principles to share information from individual libraries, using general-purpose vocabularies such as Schema.org, will mean that the search engines will be aware of what we have to offer and where to guide users to access it. By giving the Web what it wants in the way that it wants it, libraries will be able to use the Web to inform their users, relieving them of the need to use a library specific interface to discover library resources.
Richard will explore early examples of these techniques and what libraries and system suppliers will need to consider to take advantage of these trends in the future.
He will then lead an open discussion on the many concerns, issues, challenges, opportunities and benefits that naturally emerge from proposing fundamental changes such as these.
Presenter:
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist, OCLC
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
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Objective:
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The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
1. Digital Libraries
Name: Number:
Exploring
Before you explore a digital library, look up online the definition of digital library on
Wikipedia and write it below:
Now search for another definition for digital libraries and write it below followed by the
website you found it on:
In class be prepared to discuss the best definition of a digital library.
Go to either Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la ), Europeana
(http://www.europeana.eu/portal/) or HathiTrust (https://www.hathitrust.org). Take some
time to explore the Home page and About page.
What is the mission for this digital library?
What kinds of items do they offer?
Now explore the site by browsing exhibits or searching.
What interesting things did you find?
How easy is it to search for things?
Who would find this digital library useful?
Evaluating
2. Digital Libraries
Now find an interesting smaller digital library (DL). Most universities have them. Some
interesting ones include:
Ming-Qing Women’s Writing
http://hcl.harvard.edu/collections/digital_collections/ming_qing.cfm
WWII War Posters
https://images.northwestern.edu/catalog?f[institutional_collection_title_facet][]=World+
War+II+Poster+Collection+at+Northwestern+University+Library
Chopin Early Editions
http://chopin.lib.uchicago.edu
This Pinterest board has many more: https://www.pinterest.com/amlibraries/featured-
digital-libraries/
Spend 20 – 40 minutes carefully going through the DL so you can complete the tasks
below. Use a separate sheet of paper.
1. Name and URL of the DL:
2. What is its mission and who operates it?
3. How well designed is the home page?
4. How easy is the DL to use?
5. Do a search and explain how easy it is to search and how satisfied you were with
the results?
6. Are there any ways to connect to social media?
7. What would you add to this DL?
8. What would you get rid of on this DL?
9. Who could benefit from using this DL?