Authority Control and Semantic Interoperability
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The document discusses authority control and semantic interoperability within library systems, emphasizing the importance of authority data related to entities like people and places. It highlights the use of the GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei) in the German-speaking world as a model for organizing authority data and enabling entity-centric discovery. The paper points to opportunities for libraries to enhance navigation and access to information through the integration of authority data with search tools and semantic networks.
![In the DNB linked data service, we use
GNDO to build authority representations
<gnd:DifferentiatedPerson rdf:about="http://d-nb.info/gnd/118508288">
<gnd:publication>Grand Concerto pour le Piano forte. - s.a.</gnd:publication>
<gnd:variantNameEntityForThePerson rdf:parseType="Resource">
<gnd:forename>...</gnd:forename>
<gnd:surname>Beethofen</gnd:surname>
</gnd:variantNameEntityForThePerson>
<gnd:professionOrOccupation rdf:resource="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4032009-1"/>
<gnd:placeOfActivity rdf:resource="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4007666-0"/>
<gnd:publication>Werke. - s. a. abgeschlossen 1865</gnd:publication>
<gnd:geographicAreaCode rdf:resource="http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/geographic-area<gnd:oldAuthorityNumber>(DE-101c)127037454</gnd:oldAuthorityNumber>
<gnd:variantNameEntityForThePerson rdf:parseType="Resource">
<gnd:prefix>van</gnd:prefix>
<gnd:forename>Ludovicus</gnd:forename>
<gnd:surname>Beethoven</gnd:surname>
</gnd:variantNameEntityForThePerson>
<gnd:variantNameEntityForThePerson rdf:parseType="Resource">
<gnd:prefix>van</gnd:prefix>
<gnd:forename>Ludwig</gnd:forename>
<gnd:surname>Bethoven</gnd:surname>
</gnd:variantNameEntityForThePerson>
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Authority Control and Semantic Interoperability
- 1. Lars G. Svensson Authority control and semantic interoperability in cooperative library systems 1 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 2. The World Wide Web is transforming from strings to things 2 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 3. Picture by DonkeyHotey (CC BY): http://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey/6143808815/ The authority data librarians curate are about things (people, places, …) 3 | 23 Photo by Shannon Kringen (CC BY-SA): http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonkringen/6190281544/ Collage by Fiona Henderson (CC BY): http://www.flickr.com/photos/fifikins/3372920140/
- 4. A discovery system revolving around authorities is one way of achieving this 4 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 5. 5 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helene_Paris_David.jpg Photo by J. Stephen Conn (CC-BY-NC): http://www.flickr.com/photos/jstephenconn/4224322884/sizes/m/in/photostream/ Photo by karlnorling (CC-BY): http://www.flickr.com/photos/karlnorling/4206727580/sizes/m/in/photostream/ Instead, they could give information on documents about things
- 6. A discovery system revolving around authorities is one way of achieving this Filter to literature about: Paris (France) Paris (Texas) Paris (Prince of Troy) 6 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 7. In the German speaking world, all authorities are collected in the GND GND PND 7 | 23 SWD GKD | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013 EST
- 8. The GND uses an entity-based model • • Conference or Event • Subject Heading • Work • Place or Geographic Name • Family • 8 | 23 Corporate Body Person | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 9. 9 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013 Graphic by Adrian Pohl: https://wiki1.hbz-nrw.de/display/SEM/2013/05/23/The+GND+ontology%27s+class+hierarchy+-+an+overview The GND Ontology is a formalisation of that entity-based model in OWL
- 10. In the DNB linked data service, we use GNDO to build authority representations <gnd:DifferentiatedPerson rdf:about="http://d-nb.info/gnd/118508288"> <gnd:publication>Grand Concerto pour le Piano forte. - s.a.</gnd:publication> <gnd:variantNameEntityForThePerson rdf:parseType="Resource"> <gnd:forename>...</gnd:forename> <gnd:surname>Beethofen</gnd:surname> </gnd:variantNameEntityForThePerson> <gnd:professionOrOccupation rdf:resource="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4032009-1"/> <gnd:placeOfActivity rdf:resource="http://d-nb.info/gnd/4007666-0"/> <gnd:publication>Werke. - s. a. abgeschlossen 1865</gnd:publication> <gnd:geographicAreaCode rdf:resource="http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/geographic-area<gnd:oldAuthorityNumber>(DE-101c)127037454</gnd:oldAuthorityNumber> <gnd:variantNameEntityForThePerson rdf:parseType="Resource"> <gnd:prefix>van</gnd:prefix> <gnd:forename>Ludovicus</gnd:forename> <gnd:surname>Beethoven</gnd:surname> </gnd:variantNameEntityForThePerson> <gnd:variantNameEntityForThePerson rdf:parseType="Resource"> <gnd:prefix>van</gnd:prefix> <gnd:forename>Ludwig</gnd:forename> <gnd:surname>Bethoven</gnd:surname> </gnd:variantNameEntityForThePerson> […] 10 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 11. 11 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013 Projekt „Multimediale Bibliotheksplattform“, Hochschule Darmstadt, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek TU Darmstadt, media transfer AG, Software AG, nterra GmbH, House of IT. Gefördert durch das Land Hessen (LOEWE) The RDF/OWL model has triggered interesting re-use
- 12. http://personendatenbank.germania-sacra.de/index/browse Germania Sacra builds links to GND via SRU queries 12 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 13. http://zbw.eu/beta/econ-ws/examples/suggest2.html ZBW employs data from the GND in a lookup service for persons 13 | 23
- 14. http://www.museum-digital.de/thue/index.php?t=objekt&oges=477 museum-digital uses GND data to provide contextual information 14 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 15. Libraries can leverage those structures to build entity-centric discovery 15 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 16. Topical search can revolve around subject headings 16 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 17. We can also explore networks of persons 17 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 18. Through vocabulary interlinking we can achieve (almost) true multilinguality 18 | 23
- 19. 19 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013 Photo by Nico Kaiser (CC-BY): http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicokaiser/4667377944/sizes/z/in/photostream/ So is the use of semantic networks a cure-all for navigation in libraries?
- 20. We often focus too much on books and forget the authorities (people, places, …) 20 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 21. I see some far-reaching opportunities! 21 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013 Photo by Ian T. Edwards (CC BY-NC-SA): http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanuman/239311523/a A discovery system revolving around authorities can add new perspectives
- 22. Search engine integration of authorities linked to bibliographic information can drive traffic to libraries 22 | 23 | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013
- 23. 23 | 23 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Tim_Berners-Lee_CP_2_head_crop.jpg Photo by Mary Harrsch (CC BY-NC-SA) http://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/2522112120/ The Giant Global Graph: Where Callimachus meets Tim Berners-Lee | Authority control and semantic interoperability | November 18, 2013