Links commonly used in presentations

I often have many links in presentations, and it must be very difficult audience members to try to write them down. I am putting them here to make it easier.

Library Linked Data Examples

Vocabularies

• Library of Congress Vocabularies
• FAST in RDF
  
• RDA Vocabularies and Elements
• Dewey Summaries
• Rameau subject headings
• Deutsche national Bibliothek subjects
  
• Karen's analysis of MARC as data elements (wiki)
• Some MARC codes (informal)

Library Standard Data Elements

• RDA Vocabularies and Elements
• FRBR (FRBRer)
• ISBD
• FRAD
• MADS in RDF

Library and Other Bibliographic Data Sets

• List of library datasets in linked data format at CKAN (CKAN is a UK non-profit dedicated to open knowledge. It makes its site available as a place to list open data sets of any type.)
• Bibliographic data sets at the Data Hub (includes BNB, LIBRIS, and others)

The Open Metadata Registry

The Open Metadata Registry is a site that allows you to create RDF data sets and vocabularies in a simple user interface. It is the home to the RDA elements in RDF, as well as a number of IFLA sets, such as FRBR and ISBD.

• Home page
• RDA Elements and Vocabularies
• Registry Sandbox

Bibliographic Metadata Elements (non-library)

There are a number of created element sets for bibliographic data. Most are coming from an academic research perspective and favor print materials, primarily journal articles.

• Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO)
• Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO) [part of SPAR]
• FRBR-Aligned Bibliographic Ontology (FABiO)
• Dublin Core Metadata Elements

Linked Data Organizations and Activities

• Semantic Web activity at the W3C
• W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group - Final Report
• Open Bibliographic Data Working Group
• JISC Open Bibliographic Data Guide
• LITA/ALCTS Linked Library Data Interest Group (Wiki)

Linked Data Examples

Databases

• Open Library
• Freebase

Sample Data

RDA use cases from DCMI/RDA Working Group pages. (Click on links like "Scenario/1" by each case's heading.)

Open Library

Author page
Author in RDF

Work page
Work in RDF

Edition (Manifestation) page
Edition in RDF

Open Research Online

Article page
Article metadata in RDF

VIAF

Name authority page
Name authority in RDF

DBPedia

Page for Herman Melville
Page for Moby Dick

Freebase

Jonathan Franzen in RDF
Book: Freedom in RDF

Linked Data - General

• Linked data cloud
• dbpedia
• DBPedia Ontology
• Friend of a Friend (FOAF)
• BIO (Biographical information)
  

Some Readings

Particularly for librarians

• Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata, by Karen Coyle. ALA Library Technology Reports, January, 2010
• RDA Vocabularies for a Twenty-first Century Data Environment, by Karen Coyle. ALA Library Technology Reports, February, 2010

More technical readings

Semantic web for the working ontologist by Dean Allemang, 2008, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers/Elsevier

If you are comfortable with general metadata concepts and perhaps some database management technologies, then this is a good first book on Semantic Web metadata concepts. It's not really for beginners, but I can't find anything that is truly for beginners. So expect to struggle a bit, but the information here is solid.

Semantic Web Programming, by John Hebeler, et al. Indianapolis, Ind., Wiley, 2009. ISBN:9780470418017

Although this is in the end a book for programmers, the first half talks about Semantic Web concepts and standards without requiring any programming expertise. So you can learn about RDF, OWL, and see examples of uses. If you program, then the book also gets you started with some of the current Semantic Web tools: Protege, Jena and Pellet.

Semantic Web for Dummies, by Jeffrey T. Pollock. Wiley, 2009

In this case, the "dummy" is a fairly seasoned programmer with good skills in relational databases and object-oriented programming. So if your tech skills are good, this book will give you a lot of practical information, relating it to things you already know. It also is aimed at the business world, where terms like "enterprise" are frequently used. Although that might be a bit strange for library folks, Pollock addresses issues relating to scalability, search optimization, and the types of technical skills that are essential in this new environment.

A Semantic Web primer by G. Antoniou 2008, MIT Press

Creating the semantic Web with RDF, by Johan Hjelm 2001, Wiley

The Semantic Web, by Michael C Daconta 2003, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.