[open-bibliography] Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) project
Karen Coyle
kcoyle at kcoyle.net
Mon Feb 3 21:26:00 UTC 2014
There is a short update on the EBSCO/Ex Libris/Proquest stuff:
http://thoughts.care-affiliates.com/2014/02/one-content-silo-removed-at-recent-ala.html
kc
On 2/3/14, 12:32 PM, Adrian Pohl wrote:
> Thank you all for your responses.
>
> I had previously heard about Cornell's project to provide unified
> discovery via a blacklight (open source) interface and wondered whether
> the LD4L project would address the whole range of the data underlying
> discovery tools or just the catalog metadata. I hoped that libraries
> would move one step further with addressing free reuse/open licensing of
> metadata in contract negotiations with content providers. (See also the
> openbiblio blog post in reaction to the EBSCO and Ex Libris slap fight:
> http://openbiblio.net/2013/06/23/discovery-silos-vs-the-open-web/.)
>
> David, please let us know if there is any chance if the project might
> also address this issue. Someone will have to make a start...
>
> - Adrian
>
>
>
> On 3 February 2014 20:50, David Weinberger <self at evident.com
> <mailto:self at evident.com>> wrote:
>
> Since the aim is to demonstrate library Linked Data's practical
> value for scholarly/educational communities, we'll do as much
> reconciliation/linking as we can, which will inevitably be less than
> we'd like.
>
> We're pretty much at Day #2 of this project. There will be more
> details as we work through the issues, preferably with the advice
> and help of the entire community, including you.
>
> David W.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Ian Ibbotson <ian.ibbotson at k-int.com
> <mailto:ian.ibbotson at k-int.com>> wrote:
>
> (apologies if I'm just re-posting info already seen)
>
> I think @azaroth42 [twitter] might be a good man to ask for
> details on this.. Some responses to the "and we're off" posting,
> asking about license etc here:
> http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2014/02/01/linked-data-for-libraries-and-were-off/
> ....
>
> ..Yes, we are aiming at public domain. The following is from
> page 3 of the proposal:
>
> “While Linked Data can be used internally within an institution
> or across a collaborative group, it becomes much more valuable
> when it is Linked Open Data, and is publicly shared using an
> open license such as the Creative Commons CC-BY[1] or CC0[2]
> licenses, or the United Kingdom’s Open Government License[3].
> For our Linked Data for Libraries project, our intention is that
> all SRSIS instances will share Linked Open Data with the world.”
>
> Dean Krafft adds: Since we’re publishing our own metadata, and
> we don’t actually have a lot of metadata for journal articles,
> there won’t be a lot of that in the mix. But what we do have
> should definitely be open.
>
>
> Ian Ibbotson
> Director
> Knowledge Integration Ltd
> 35 Paradise Street, Sheffield. S3 8PZ
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> M: 07968 794 630
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>
>
> On 3 February 2014 19:07, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com
> <mailto:tfmorris at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Adrian. Does anyone have any information on what
> they're actually doing? Is this going to result in yet
> another mega dump of unreconciled/unlinked bibliographic RDF
> data or are they actually going to make an attempting at
> linking things in a useful fashion?
>
> Stanford was actually involved in a linked data experiment
> back in 2010 when a good chunk of their catalog was loaded
> into Freebase and matched up with Freebase topics. You can
> see a list of the book editions here:
> https://www.freebase.com/authority/stanford/control?links&lang=en&sort=timestamp
> If you look at an edition, you'll see that they're each
> linked back to the Stanford OPAC system. For example, these
> two editions:
> https://www.freebase.com/m/075ngj1
> https://www.freebase.com/m/0c60n0m
> are linked both their original catalog entries and to this work:
> https://www.freebase.com/m/075nhtg
> and the topic for the authorDonn Byrne
> <https://www.freebase.com/m/02x79g1> which is further linked
> to Wikipedia, OpenLibrary, VIAF, IMDB, and LC NAF.
>
> That's all a long-winded way of saying that Stanford
> University Library has a pretty good start on producing
> Linked Data today.
>
> Cornell has some linked data for their OPAC too, although I
> don't think its as extensive as the Stanford data. I think
> it's mostly derived from the metadata associated with Google
> Books scans. If you look at this edition
> <https://www.freebase.com/m/04w0sxn> of Flatland
> <https://www.freebase.com/m/0j_mj> you can see that it's
> linked to both Cornell's OPAC as well as the LC and
> OpenLibrary records for that edition, while the work entry
> is linked to Wikipedia and ISFDB
> <http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1933>. (It should
> be linked to the OpenLibrary work page too, but OpenLibrary
> didn't yet have works when the original Freebase linking was
> done, so that's a gap in the linkage.
>
> Tom
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Adrian Pohl
> <adrian.pohl at okfn.org <mailto:adrian.pohl at okfn.org>> wrote:
>
> The Mellon-funded Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L)
> project at Cornell,
> Harvard and Stanford might bring things forward
> regarding the
> availability of open bibliographic data on the web. See
> the recent
> blog post on the project by David Weinberger.[1]
>
> In the December announcement[2] of the project from
> Harvard it reads:
> "Ultimately, the goal of the project is to create a
> system that pulls
> information out of its existing silos—like library
> catalogs, finding
> aids, reading lists and more—into a common format that
> people can use
> to find and understand information. This new system
> would apply to
> all scholarly and creative disciplines, including the
> sciences, the
> arts and the humanities."
>
> The question is whether the project's goal is linked
> _open_ data, i.e.
> publishing large amounts of bibliographic data for
> journal articles
> etc. under an open license. Or whether the goal is to
> have the data on
> the web as linked data but without open licensing...
>
> Can anybody on this list provide some more information
> on this project
> regarding openbiblio data?
>
> - Adrian
>
>
> [1]
> http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2014/02/01/linked-data-for-libraries-and-were-off/
> [2]
> http://library.harvard.edu/12162013-1308/harvard-cornell-stanford-libraries-project-receives-grant
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