The document discusses linked data as a framework for connecting information within the World Wide Web, emphasizing the importance of consistent and persistent identifiers for data integration. It outlines how standardization can both stabilize and limit innovation, proposing that a shared data space allows for the mixing and matching of resources. The document highlights various external data resources that can enhance library catalogs and facilitate broader access to information.

1. Linked data:
what it means,
why it matters
Karen Coyle
April, 2014

2. linked data
connecting information

3. WHAT

4. World Wide Web Consortium
Standard
Uses the web as a home for data
Data framework

5. Content standards
Library standards are:
• Top-down
• Control output
• Enforce uniformity
• Discourage innovation

6. Standards hold some things stable so
that the rest can change

7. linked data
A tool

8. Our future standards

9. PROBLEM STATEMENT

10. Separate data
stores

11. Shared data
space

12. Anyone can make
connections
Re-use, mix’n’match

13. WHY?

14.  Manguel, Alberto,
1948-

18. BUT, HOW?
We need to make connections

19. FACTS
 Place
 Date & time
 People
 Events
 … Identifiers, mainly identifiers for things

20. Identifiers
 Persistent (life of the thing)
 Consistent (do not change)
 Language neutral (the web is global)
 Web-enabled (http://…)

21. Smith, John, 1936-
Smith, John
Smith, John, 1967-
2010

22. http://viaf.org/viaf/17220427

23. Things
Identifiers for

24. text

26. VIAF
LC/BnF/DNB

27. Enhancing the catalog with data
Making use of
resources
outside of the
library.
 LIBRIS – Swedish
National Library
 OpenAGRIS - FAO

28. LIBRIS – National Library of
Sweden
• DBPedia
• id.loc.gov
• MusicBrainz
• VIAF
• …

29. OpenAGRIS
• DBPedia
• Global Biodiversity Information
Facility (GBIF)
• FAO GeopoliticalOntology
• AGRIS serials dataset
• Global capture production -
FAO Fishery Statistical Collections
• World Bank

30. WEB
Acq;
patron;
inventory
Public interface
Library

31. http://kcoyle.net/presentations/links
.html
http://kcoyle.net/metadata/
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