Metadata for over 20 Million Cultural Objects released into the Public Domain by Europeana
Adrian Pohl - September 12, 2012 in Data, Europeana, lod-lam

Adrian Pohl - September 12, 2012 in Data, Europeana, lod-lam
Adrian Pohl - June 23, 2012 in Data, lod-lam
1: @prefix library: <http://purl.org/library/> .
2: @prefix madsrdf: <http://www.loc.gov/mads/rdf/v1#> .
3: @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
4: @prefix schema: <http://schema.org/> .
5: @prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
6: <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/707877350> a schema:Book;
7: library:holdingsCount "1"@en;
8: library:oclcnum "707877350"@en;
9: library:placeOfPublication [ a schema:Place;
10: schema:name "San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) :"@en ];
11: schema:about [ a skos:Concept;
12: schema:name "Web site development."@en;
13: madsrdf:isIdentifiedByAuthority <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98004795> ],
14: [ a skos:Concept;
15: schema:name "Semantic Web."@en;
16: madsrdf:isIdentifiedByAuthority <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002000569> ],
17: <http://dewey.info/class/025/e22/>,
18: <http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1112076>,
19: <http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1173243>;
20: schema:author <http://viaf.org/viaf/38278185>;
21: schema:bookFormat schema:EBook;
22: schema:contributor <http://viaf.org/viaf/171087834>;
23: schema:copyrightYear "2011"@en;
24: schema:description "1. Introduction -- The data deluge -- The rationale for linked data -- Structure enables sophisticated processing -- Hyperlinks connect distributed data -- From data islands to a global data space -- Introducing Big Lynx productions --"@en,
25: "The World Wide Web has enabled the creation of a global information space comprising linked documents. As the Web becomes ever more enmeshed with our daily lives, there is a growing desire for direct access to raw data not currently available on the Web or bound up in hypertext documents. Linked Data provides a publishing paradigm in which not only documents, but also data, can be a first class citizen of the Web, thereby enabling the extension of the Web with a global data space based on open standards - the Web of Data. In this Synthesis lecture we provide readers with a detailed technical introduction to Linked Data. We begin by outlining the basic principles of Linked Data, including coverage of relevant aspects of Web architecture. The remainder of the text is based around two main themes - the publication and consumption of Linked Data. Drawing on a practical Linked Data scenario, we provide guidance and best practices on: architectural approaches to publishing Linked Data; choosing URIs and vocabularies to identify and describe resources; deciding what data to return in a description of a resource on the Web; methods and frameworks for automated linking of data sets; and testing and debugging approaches for Linked Data deployments. We give an overview of existing Linked Data applications and then examine the architectures that are used to consume Linked Data from the Web, alongside existing tools and frameworks that enable these. Readers can expect to gain a rich technical understanding of Linked Data fundamentals, as the basis for application development, research or further study."@en;
26: schema:inLanguage "en"@en;
27: schema:isbn "1608454312"@en,
28: "9781608454310"@en;
29: schema:name "Linked data evolving the web into a global data space"@en;
30: schema:publisher [ a schema:Organization;
31: schema:name "Morgan & Claypool"@en ];
32: owl:sameAs <http://dx.doi.org/10.2200/S00334ED1V01Y201102WBE001> .
Naomi Lillie - June 14, 2012 in BibServer, Data, event, Events, JISC OpenBib, jiscopenbib2, licensing, lod-lam, minutes, OKFN Openbiblio, Talks, wp1, wp2, wp3, wp4, wp5, wp6, wp7, wp8, wp9
Mark MacGillivray - May 8, 2012 in BibServer, Data, JISC OpenBib, jiscopenbib2, lod-lam, News, OKFN Openbiblio, wp2, wp3, wp5, wp6, wp7, wp8
Naomi Lillie - April 24, 2012 in event, JISC OpenBib, jiscopenbib2, lod-lam, News, OKFN Openbiblio, wp3, wp4, wp5
Adrian Pohl discussed Nature’s release of 450,000 articles under a CC0 licence and followed up with this more in-depth article
Todd Robbins circulated Jim Pitman’s detailed article on author identity, which explores the issue of citations in relation to a non-existent publication (!) and includes recommendations for opening your own data
Antoine Isaac notified us of Europeana’s ‘Connecting Society to Culture Programme’, as part of the Hack4Europe! 2012 road show, including 3 hackathons in 3 different countries; it turns out that one in Berlin starts on the day our own Hackathon finishes – speaking of which…
Hackathon ‘show of hands’ request sent out! Contact naomi.lillie [@] okfn.org if you’d like to add your name to the list of interested people. This Hackathon is being run by Open Biblio with Open GLAM and DevCSI, on the 12th-14th June, in East London – more details to follow
Following the last Working Group meeting, Adrian Pohl expounded upon the role and goals of the Working Group, which is now given at http://openbiblio.net/about and http://openbiblio.net/get-involved
David Weinberger announced that Harvard has opened 12 million bibliographic records to the public domain under a CC0 licence – see his blog post to read more about it and for links to further information
Finally, Adrian announced the next Working Group meeting on 7th May, where Mark MacGillivray will be updating the community on project developments
As always, thanks to our amazing community for promoting and leading open bibliographic data in all its manifestations. To become part of the group and get your voice heard, sign up to the List here.
Antoine Isaac - March 19, 2012 in Data, Guest post, lod-lam, Semantic Web
Naomi Lillie - March 1, 2012 in Data, jiscopenbib2, lod-lam, News, wp5
Adrian Pohl - February 2, 2012 in Data, Guest post, lod-lam, national library, Semantic Web
Adrian Pohl - December 8, 2011 in Data, lod-lam
Adrian Pohl - October 4, 2011 in Data, licensing, lod-lam