Presentation to the ALCTS session "International Developments in Library Linked Data: Think Globally" at the American Library Association Conference in Las Vegas - June 2014

1. Richard Wallis
Linked Data: from
Library Entities to
the Web of Data
Technology Evangelist
@rjw

4. edition
author location
holding
date of publication
classification
publisher
title
source
ISBN
author location
holding
classification
publisher
person place
object concept
organization work
library data:
stored as records
title

5. authorperson place
object concept
organization work
subjectitem
availability
library data stored as entities

6. person place
object concept
organization work
library data stored as entities
library knowledge graph
A graph of relationships

7. What’s Happening on The Web:
schema.org

8. What’s Happening for Libraries:
SchemaBibExtend
• W3C Activity
• Schema.org Based
http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/

9. WorldCat Entities
Works
• 197+ million Work descriptions and URIs
• Schema.org
• RDF Data formats – RDF/XML, Turtle, Triples, JSON-LD
• Links to WorldCat manifestations
• Links to Dewey, LCSH, LCNAF, VIAF, FAST
• Open Data license
• Released April 2014

13. Part of the Web of Data

14. • A Technology
• Standard on the Web – RDF, URIs, Vocabularies
• Identifying and Linking resources on the Web
• Important powerful enabling technology
• But only a technology…
for the systems folks to worry about
• Real benefits flow from:
Entity Based Data Architecture
Powered by Linked Data

15. Entity Based Data
on the Web

16. … beneficial effects for libraries
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newsitem/5350
“… more than 80 per cent of these
visitors coming from search engines …”

20. Bibliographic Entities in the Web of Data
Cataloging
Integration with the web
Cascading updates More options
Intuitive searching

21. OCLC Entity Based Data Strategy
 VIAF, ISNI, FAST Publish Linked Data
 WorldCat.org Linked Data Release – using Schema.org
 Internal agreement on data strategy
 Evangelism
 Research & Design with Data Architecture Group
 Data mining of WorldCat resources
 WorldCat Works Released
2012
2014
Application Integration
 WorldCat Discovery
 Analytics
 Discovery API
 Cataloging
2015
More Entities Released
 Person
 Organization
 Event
 Concept
New Products
Continuing Evangelism
New Services
Continuing Innovation
2013
2016

22. Yeah – but what can I
do?• Your resources in the Web of Data
- Contribute to WorldCat
• Start linking your resources
- WorldCat Work URIs in your data
• Register institution on the web
- Schema.org – Organization/Library
- WorldCat Registry
- Schema.org across your Website(s)
• Talk to system providers / projects
- Not just a Linked Data feature
- Exposing Entities in global context

23. Explore. Share. Magnify.
Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist
Richard.wallis@oclc.org
@rjw
Linked Data: from Library
Entities to the Web of Data