Resetting the Web's Information Landscape - Growing Library Visibility with Linked Data
- 1. Resetting the Web’s Information Landscape Growing Library Visibility with Linked Data Public Library Association April 7, 2016 Eric Miller em@zepheira.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/erimille @erimille Coming PLA 2016 Library.Link Growing Library Visibility Together The A Zepheira Collaboration Network The Library.Link NetworkGrowing Library Visibility Together A Zepheira Collaboration
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- 3. Zepheira’s Perspectives on Leadership and Practice Libraries, Web, Data & Technology Standards Data and Tech Strategies Vocabularies Projects Activities Large Scale Projects
- 4. 23,000,000 = Salt Lake County Library Annual Catalog Search Traffic 2014 Annual Report or = 9.58 minutes on Google
- 6. The Web is better when libraries participate “We just don’t see it”
- 7. The Web Values • Geography / Location • Personalization • Scarcity / Uniqueness
- 8. Title: The geographic distribution of United States public libraries : An analysis of locations and service areas Author: Francis P. Donnelly Journal: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JOLIS) Year: 2014, Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 110-129 ISSN: 0961-0006 DOI: 10.1177/0961000612470276 Publisher: Sage Spoiler alert: Libraries have the opportunity to change the Web and the way users learn but we have to show up to the party
- 9. A Talk in 3 Parts
- 10. Act 1 Linked Data Essentials
- 11. Most of the Web is… • Pages and links • Designed for direct human consumption • Simple linking (“points at”) • Data is hidden
- 12. A significant gap between what browsers and humans see 12
- 13. • Human readable • Machine readable 13
- 14. The Web is moving from a web of documents to a Web of data
- 17. Begins with Linked Data 17 “a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data NOTE: This applies both externally on the Web and internally within systems.
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- 19. Linked Data becomes useful when we have Common Accessible Actionable
- 20. How is this evolving the Web?
- 21. Emerging Web focuses on ANSWERS using Data, Resources,Vocabulary and Links
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- 28. Next Generation Search is rooted in Questions, Geography, Personalization and Relationships 28
- 32. How does the Web “see” Libraries? 32
- 33. Libraries = Community Businesses Location, photos, hours, reviews, social, events 33 And this is a ‘best case’ scenario
- 34. Imagine an information landscape that has learned about Libraries, their content, and services 34
- 35. I’m looking for some good new mysteries I can pick up before I head out for my trip later this week? Let me check on some options, but first - Who are some of your favorite authors?
- 36. What would it take for Libraries to be part of the conversation? 36 Geographic Content Readers Advisory Availability Personalization Access Control
- 37. Act 2 Libraries, Linked Data and the Web
- 38. Library Description and Capacity Systems and Services Content and Collections A library’s story is multifaceted and serves many audiences
- 39. Libraries aren’t “speaking” in a way the Web understands We have a wealth of content and resources locked behind legacy, closed technology systems and niche vocabularies
- 40. MARC as “things” not “strings”
- 41. Libraries have a rich tradition of Descriptive Vocabularies and Authorities
- 42. “BIBFRAME is the resource for defining web accessible bibliographic data for more effective sharing, navigation and collaboration. It is a simple, replicable linked data pattern.”
- 43. 43 BIBFRAME Baseline “Resources” Instance Agent Concept CopyrightEvent Family Form Meeting Organization Temporal ProviderEvent Works Persons Collection Place Topic Series Just the beginning. BIBFRAME is inherently extensible and is moving beyond MARC & catalogs.
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- 45. Act 3 Putting it all together Seeding the Web with Library Data
- 46. Exploring Together • Strategic connection & importance • Community engagement • Libraries are more than a catalog • Linked Data = linking first • Speak for understanding & action • Stop waiting, learn by iterating
- 48. 48 Catalog Export of approximately 445,000 MARC Records Instance (445,007) Agent (54,232) Concept (199,657) CopyrightEvent (1,029) Family (291) Form (1,493) Meeting (203) Organization (21,287) Temporal (1,268) ProviderEvent (116,587) Works (369,239) Persons (184,688) Collection (33,954) Place (17,951) Topic (32,698) Series (38,913)
- 49. 49 Libraries Publish Linked Data through Local Link Graphs Each “Resource” is published and linked in the Library’s Local Link Graph pages. The data is designed to to bring together disparate resources, surface relationships and provide entry paths for the Web into what’s available in the library.
- 50. Transformed Library Data Can Teach the Web 50
- 51. 51 Instance (445,007) Meeting (203) Series (38,913) Agent (54,232) Concept (199,657) CopyrightEvent (1,029) Family (291) Form (1,493) Organization (21,287) Temporal (1,268) ProviderEvent (116,587) Works (369,239) Persons (184,688) Collection (33,954) Place (17,951) Topic (32,698) 445,007 Catalog “Records” become millions of Link Graph Data Resources
- 52. 52 Instance (445,007) Meeting (203) Series (38,913) Agent (54,232) Concept (199,657) CopyrightEvent (1,029) Family (291) Form (1,493) Organization (21,287) Temporal (1,268) ProviderEvent (116,587) Works (369,239) Persons (184,688) Collection (33,954) Place (17,951) Topic (32,698) 445,007 Catalog “Records” become millions of Link Graph Data Resources
- 54. 54 A Person Resource doesn’t yet have a Catalog “page”, but look at what your data can teach the Web… 677,443Works (369,239) Persons (184,688) Collection (33,954) Place (17,951) Topic (32,698) Series (38,913)
- 55. 55 Contributor of Creator of Focus of Gaimen, Neil | Handbooks | Characters … Conservator of Narrator of Writer of Introduction of +24 more +100 more All connections link to library resources
- 56. Early visibility success • Surfacing Catalog Resources • Special Collection Connections • Densely Connected Local Link Graph pages • Mobile Search • Engagement with Web and Library partners • Statewide and Geo-specific pilot projects
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- 59. 59 “our genealogy librarians just had a call from New York to request a particular chapter of a book that we had that she had found on Google!” - Dallas Public Library
- 60. The Library.Link NetworkGrowing Library Visibility Together A Zepheira Collaboration Each library has a Local Link Graph domain activated
- 61. 61 All Local Link Graphs: 1. Consistent Vocabulary 2. Current Content 3. Local identity and story The Library.Link NetworkGrowing Library Visibility Together A Zepheira Collaboration
- 62. 62 The Library.Link Network is: • Large-scale • Inclusive • Locally focused • Globally deployed • Designed for high volume harvesting The Library.Link NetworkGrowing Library Visibility Together A Zepheira Collaboration
- 63. Learning Together & Impact Through Action • Over 1000 Library Locations – Community connections & Geo-density matter • Millions of Items Made Visible – Typical catalogs transform & publish in less than an hour • Billions of – Resources described – Connections created – Opportunities to reach new and current users re- enforcing relevance
- 64. Telling the whole story requires Collaboration Local System Special Collections & Archives Libraries & Location Information Transformation & Publishing Managed Infrastructure Enterprise Architecture Enriched Content Engagement Events
- 65. Weaving the best of libraries and the Web together • This isn’t about gaming a system • It’s not about optimizing to any one service • It’s about speaking as an industry in a way the Web understands • Leveraging the power of our community • And benefiting from what all this enables
- 66. "I believe everyone benefits from the visibility of libraries and their content on the Web." Eric Miller em@zepheira.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/erimille @erimille Coming PLA 2016 Library.Link Growing Library Visibility Together The A Zepheira Collaboration Network The Library.Link NetworkGrowing Library Visibility Together A Zepheira Collaboration Thank you