NTNU University Library uses linked data to leverage its digitized collections of historical manuscripts. This was presented at ELAG2011 in Prague.

1. ACTION linked data
Rurik Thomas Greenall & Lene Elisabeth Bertheussen

2. ACTION
linked data

3. we gratefully acknowledge
Torstein Erbos Gavefond & ABM-utvikling
for their support of portions of the work described here

4. who, what, how?
Whaaaaat (http://www.flickr.com/photos/netzanette/3823786784/in/photostream/lightbox/) / Anette K (http://www.flickr.com/photos/netzanette/) / CC BY-NC 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)

5. they
have
a pro
blem

6. can linked data solve this?

7. we’v
e got
the r
eme
dy

8. we’v
e got
the r
eme
dy
YAY!

9. toolbox
Toolbox full of tools (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrhode/4632887921/) / Jason Rhode (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrhode/) / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

11. Missing video & more available at
http://folk.ntnu.no/greenall/streaming/
linkeddatainaction.mp4

12. • processing in the data store
• adapt metadata to use
• lightweight interface
• lots of data to load
• http is slow
• optimization
• caching

13. • few hardware/software requirements
• easy programming
• overcomable
• road ahead: C(++) — g-wan/monarch

14. choose your battles
Dog Fight? (http://www.flickr.com/photos/duodehale/17486491/lightbox/) / Lucas Hale (http://www.flickr.com/photos/duodehale/) / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

15. the stuff consultants say
horse's ass (http://www.flickr.com/photos/freeparking/3452830131/lightbox/) / freeparking (http://www.flickr.com/photos/freeparking/) / CC BY-NC 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)

16. cataloguing

17. the library
Snail (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7147684@N03/1037533775/lightbox/) / Jason Hollinger (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7147684@N03/) / CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)

18. take-aways I
• speed
• dedicated server
• work with RDF/SPARQL a lot
Curry sauce (http://www.flickr.com/photos/21031300@N02/4283243133/lightbox/) / Ray Flickrmember! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/21031300@N02/) / CC BY-NC 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)

19. take-aways II
• it is entirely possible
• institutional barriers > technological barriers
• speed
Fish & Chips (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukmari/155769241/lightbox/) / ukmari (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukmari/) / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

20. ntnu:greeting
“thanks”@en,
“takk”@no,
“tack”@sv,
“diolch”@cy,
“danke”@de,
“kiitos”@fi,
lene.bertheussen@ub.ntnu.no
“díky”@cs,
rurik.greenall@ub.ntnu.no
“grazie”@it,
“gracias”@es,
“dzięki”@pl,
“danke”@nl,
“merci”@fr .