Breaking Out of the Walled Garden: Lessons Learned in Moving Library Linked Data from Research to Production
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The document discusses the challenges and lessons learned in transitioning library data to linked data formats, highlighting both the benefits and obstacles faced. Key issues include the complexity of implementing linked data systems, the requirement for community consensus on data meaning, and the ongoing relevance of traditional formats like MARC. It emphasizes that while linked data has great potential, practical implementation is hindered by economic, political, and technical barriers.
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Breaking Out of the Walled Garden: Lessons Learned in Moving Library Linked Data from Research to Production
- 1. Minitex Technical Services Symposium, St. Paul Minnesota. 6 December 2017 Breaking Out of the Walled Garden: Lessons Learned in Moving Library Linked Data from Research to Production Jean Godby Senior Research Scientist OCLC Membership and Research
- 6. Image source: Wikipedia The Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
- 9. THE PROMISE OF LINKED DATA
- 10. “When MARC was created, the Beatles were a hot new group and those of us alive at the time wore really embarrassing clothes and hairstyles.… “ “Although age by itself is not necessarily a sign of technological obsolescence…, when it comes to computer standards, it is generally not a good thing.”
- 12. Data is easier to manage. Data is broadly understandable. The cost of description can be shared. Data is easier to integrate. Conformance to linked data principles Benefits for data publishersPerceivedvalue
- 13. Albert Einstein Person Relativity: The Special and General Theory Work Physics Concept author about Entities and relationships
- 14. Source: Richard Wallis, “Web-Driven Revolution for Library Data.” Washington, DC. April 2015
- 15. “Linked Data is about communities agreeing on the meaning of their data and sharing it in a massively networked information space….” “In this form, our data can be linked with that of other professions…boosting the visibility of libraries while conferring the library’s authority on the work of others.”
- 17. OCLC’s linked data resources WorldCat Catalog WorldCat Works FAST http://www.ocl c.org/researc h/themes/dat a- science/linked data.html VIAF ISNI
- 18. A REALITY CHECK
- 20. • Steep learning curve • Inconsistent legacy data • Challenges with: – selecting appropriate ontologies to model data – establishing links • Little documentation or advice on how to build systems Barriers to publishing linked data Source: Karen Smith-Yoshimura
- 21. “Walk Before You Run: Prerequisites to Linked Data” – Kenning Arlitsch, 2015
- 22. Source: Rob Sanderson 2017: “Myth of Inference” Source: Tim Cole. “What I learned (the hard way) from the Web Annotation Working Group”
- 25. [BIBFRAME] Discussion: Feb. 2017 “There are no there are no technical obstacles for the success of BIBFRAME, only economic and political ones.” “In my view, those obstacles are insurmountable, and that's precisely why I posited that ‘BIBFRAME will fail’”. “BIBFRAME is a very complex thing to develop.…Cataloging librarians are very meticulous…and hard to please. BiBFRAME has to become perfect through use and continuous effort. It will never work in a vacuum like now. Someone has to start using it. There is no way turning back at this point.” “…too conceptual” “No killer app”
- 26. WHAT’S NEXT?
- 27. …“Understanding the challenges” • Producing linked data requires more than simply converting records. • Putting library linked data on the web is important, but it is not a panacea. • One standard does not fit all. “While we believe that linked data representations will eventually become the de facto standard, we also believe that MARC will continue to be used by the library community for many years to come. “ https://wiki.dnb.de/display/EBW/Documents+and+Results
- 28. This is now: Semantic Web tools assessment Technical proof of concept Data publishing at scale A more ambitious scope? That was then:
- 29. Technical development in a richer context
- 30. “Same As” Name Authority File 2 Albert Einstein Name Authority File 1 A. Einstein Web resource 1 Einstein Web resource 2 On the Critical Path: Entity Reconciliation Albert Einstein ? Эйнштейн, Альберт. …(14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German- born theoretical physicist. Einstein developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). Source: Wikipedia …
- 31. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85387872 … What does this URI refer to? “...entity named in the 1xx field” The person? The concept? The heading? “Trump, Donald, 1946- ”
- 32. Cultural factors in data publishing
- 33. “This webinar will identify strategies for coping with the challenges of NACO workflows today and explore proposals to shift authority work in the future from a traditional MARC-based footing to a new identity management orientation….”
- 35. Original cataloging Copy cataloging Library authority control Entity description Link management Vocabularies from many sources Today Tomorrow Changing Resource Description Workflows
- 36. LD4PE: Linked Data for Professional Educators
- 40. Thank you! Jean Godby Senior Research Scientist godby@oclc,org