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Promises and Pitfalls: Linked Data, Privacy, and Library Catalogs
This document discusses the promises and pitfalls of using linked data in library catalogs. It begins by explaining what linked data is and how it makes relationships between data explicit. Linked data initiatives like BIBFRAME aim to apply these concepts to library metadata. However, privacy is a major concern since linked data allows for more aggressive exploration of personal information. The document discusses libraries' role in protecting user privacy and explores solutions like privacy preference ontologies and standards from the W3C. Overall, while linked data holds benefits, ensuring user privacy will be an ongoing challenge for libraries to address.
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- 1. Promises and Pitfalls: LinkedData, Privacy, and Library Catalogs Emily Dust Nimsakont Cataloging Librarian, Nebraska Library Commission TSRT/IFRT Spring Meeting March 6, 2015
- 2. What is Linked Data? Photo credit:http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytudut/5197551003/
- 3. Wikipedia says… “Linked Datadescribes a method of publishing structured data, so that it can be interlinked and become more useful. It builds upon standard web technologies, such as HTTP and URIs - but rather than using them to serve web pages for human readers, it extends them to share information in a way that can be read automatically by computers.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data
- 4. resource resource resource resource resource links to linksto links to links to
- 5. data links to linksto links to links to data data data data data data data data data data data
- 6. HTML <h1>This is aheading.</h1> <p>This is a paragraph.</p>
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- 8. We are usedto connecting pieces of information based on their context. Title: A Christmas Carol Author: Charles Dickens Relationships are key. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brenda-starr/3509344100/
- 9. Linked Data makesthe relationships explicit (to computers!) subject object A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens has author predicate
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- 11. “Just as thetraditional document Web can be crawled by following hypertext links, the Web of Data can be crawled by following RDF links. Working on the crawled data, search engines can provide sophisticated query capabilities... Because the query results themselves are structured data, not just links to HTML pages, they can be immediately processed, thus enabling a new class of applications based on the Web of Data.” Chris Bizer, Richard Cyganiak, and Tom Heath How to Publish Linked Data on the Web http://linkeddata.org/docs/how-to-publish
- 16. Why should librarianscare about Linked Data? Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stovak/2378145902/
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- 21. Web Visibility “When mycommunity searches the web for something we have, we better show up as an option.” Chuck Gibson, Director & CEO Worthington Public Library “The Visible Library,” Library Journal Webcast, February 26, 2015 http://goo.gl/8NErmA
- 23. Privacy Concerns Relatedto Linked Data Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/robjewitt/5470928230/
- 24. There’s a lotmore information out there And it will be explored more aggressively Photo credits: https://www.flickr.com/photos/intersectionconsulting/7537238368/, https://www.flickr.com/photos/jennlynndesign/2588277527/, https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/10536998065/
- 25. Libraries and Privacy Photocredit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pong/2404940312/
- 26. “Librarians feel aprofessional responsibility to protect the right to search for information free from surveillance. Privacy has long been the cornerstone of library services in America. Why? Because the freedom to read and receive ideas anonymously is at the heart of individual liberty in a democracy. Librarians defend that freedom every day. Libraries are information hubs for their communities. They are also natural centers for learning and talking about information issues… including privacy.” http://chooseprivacyweek.org/our-story/why-libraries/
- 27. Libraries, Rights Management, andLinked Data Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/917press/2583620793/
- 28. “Libraries no longerown much of the content they provide to users; rather it is subscribed to from a variety of vendors. Not only does that mean that vendors will have to make their data available in linked data formats for improvements to federated search to happen, but a mix of licensed and free content in a linked data environment would be extremely difficult to manage.” Gillian Byrne and Lisa Goddard The Strongest Link: Libraries and Linked Data http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november10/byrne/11byrne.html
- 29. Privacy Solutions Photo credit:https://www.flickr.com/photos/memebinge/14471353850/
- 30. We are notalone. Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregloby/3515990945/
- 31. W3C Schema.org Bibliographic ExtensionCommunity Group https://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/
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- 33. W3C Library LinkedData Incubator Group http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/
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- 35. http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Draft_issues_page “Data related touser identity and the use of the library is protected by privacy policies and legislation.”
- 36. Privacy is acontinuum. Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/3880400014/
- 37. Privacy Preference Ontology Allowsusers to define “fine-grained privacy preferences for restricting (or granting) access” to their information Owen Sacco and Alexandre Passant A Privacy Preference Ontology (PPO) for Linked Data http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2011/papers/ldow2011-paper01-sacco.pdf
- 38. Ontology = Vocabulary “Vocabulariesare used to classify the terms that can be used in a particular application, characterize possible relationships, and define possible constraints on using those terms.” http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/ontology
- 39. Resources Matt Enis. “Endingthe Invisible Library: Linked Data.” http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2015/02/technology/ending-the-invisible-library- linked-data/ Gillian Byrne and Lisa Goddard. “The Strongest Link: Libraries and Linked Data.” http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november10/byrne/11byrne.html Virginia Schilling. “Transforming Library Metadata into Linked Library Data.” http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/org/cat/research/linked-data
- 40. Thank you! Emily DustNimsakont Cataloging Librarian Nebraska Library Commission 800-307-2665 emily.dust.nimsakont@nebraska.gov http://www.slideshare.net/enimsakont https://delicious.com/enimsakont/tsrt2015
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