Unlocking doors: recent initiatives in open and linked data at National Library of Scotland
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The document details recent initiatives by the National Library of Scotland to enhance access to digital resources through open and linked data. Key efforts include leveraging social media for outreach, embracing open data principles, and developing linked open data strategies to improve metadata management. Challenges remain in vocabulary integration and resource mapping, but the library is committed to ongoing learning and collaboration to increase discoverability and user engagement.
Unlocking doors: recent initiatives in open and linked data at National Library of Scotland
- 1. unlocking doors recent initiatives in open and linked data at National Library of Scotland Gill Hamilton Digital Access Manager g.hamilton@nls.uk
- 2. agenda o "widening access to knowledge" o opening data to social media services o the move to open data o finding our way with linked open data
- 3. widening access to knowledge "we will make digital resources accessible through communications media which are effective in promoting the use and discovery of our collections."
- 4. widening access to knowledge "we will improve access to our collections by finding new ways for our users to interact with us and others."
- 5. social media services Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland • 2,500 images • 1,500 views per day • 1.8 million views in total • 10% have comments
- 6. social media services Flickr 52,000 views 114 favorited 20 comments "It is a Lee Enfield gun .." "I'm doing a presentation, may I use the image?" http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/3012796098/
- 7. social media services You Tube 102 videos 300,000 views 186 comments "Fab wee motor." "My parents had one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9l01vy7y3w of these"
- 8. social media services Licensing, copyright and rights • out of copyright and/or copyright owner • to gain benefits you must give away some or all control • Flickr The Commons
- 9. social media services Lessons learned.... • minimal investment for improved access • taster of the Library's collections • the world is full of knowledgeable people • to gain benefits you have to give something up • findability beyond the Library website • open ... but not open enough
- 10. open data is the concept that data is made available so others can use and re-use it without restrictions of copyright or control mechanisms
- 11. open data if you created the metadata then you can license it as you wish if you create or own the resource then you can license it as you wish
- 12. open data CC.0
- 13. open data The 5 easy steps to open data 1. licensed 2. structured 3. documented 4. published 5. publicised "Give us raw data and give it to us NOW!"
- 14. open data The 5 easy steps to open data • licensed CC.O • structured Solr XML, MARC21, Dublin Core • documented don't make assumptions • published thedatahub • publicised twitter, blog, conference
- 15. open data http://thedatahub.org/dataset/nls-forthbridge
- 16. linked open data What we don't have .... experience skills resources What we do have ... great data lots of enthusiasm friends to help
- 17. linked open data What we did until April 2012 stop ... start ... stop ... start ... stop ... start • went to school to learn RDF • tried mapping our data to DC Terms • tried to discover URIs • created RDF for a single resource • wondered what to do next • wondered if it was worth our while
- 18. linked open data And then we spoke to our friends: freeYourMetadata.org "you should use Google Refine to discover URIs" Open Knowledge Foundation "use theDataHub.org for publishing & use CC.0" Metadata Management Associates "let us help you model your data because we have a theory ..."
- 19. linked open data local & closed global & open X DOD S LOD in data L DC T structure tDescription.title tKeyword.keyword tWho.who
- 20. linked open data local global & open structure & closed tDescription.title tKeyword.keyword tWho.who DOD data DOD in LOD
- 21. linked open data local global & open & closed structure tDescription.title R ISBD tKeyword.keyword tWho.who D MARC DOD F data DOD in DC m LOD a EDM p
- 22. linked open data
- 23. linked open data
- 24. linked open data Challenges with vocabularies we use • Arts & Architecture Thesaurus • Thesaurus for Geographic Names • LC Subject Headings • LC Name Authority • Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
- 25. linked open data AAT label LCSH Dewey TGM Cantilever bridges sh85016866 624.219 not found Cantilever bridges Cantilever bridges skos:exactMatch skos:exactMatch Construction sh99005337 624 tgm002475 (assembling) construction Civil engineering construction skos:broadMatch skos:relatedMatch skos:broadMatch Railroad bridges Sh85110864 385.312 tgm008548 Railroad bridges The way Railroad bridges skos:exactMatch skos:closeMatch skos:exactMatch TGN label GeoNames Dewey Forth Bridge 6695705 388.132094134 Forth Bridge Bridges—Edinburgh skos:exactMatch skos:broadMatch Forth, Firth of 2649175 551.483094131 Firth of Forth Stirling etc skos:exactMatch skos:relatedMatch SKOS mapping properties http://www.w3.org.TR/2009/REC-skos-20090818/#mapping
- 26. linked open data Next (small) steps .... • keep learning .... keep asking! • publish structure and data to theDataHub.org o Forth Bridge o Haig photos o Everything! • think about NLS URIs • record vocabulary URIs at metadata creation • address licensing issues with vocabularies • hope someone uses it!
- 27. Thank you .... References Me • NLS at Flickr & YouTube Gill Hamilton o http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/ g.hamilton@nls.uk o http://www.youtube.com/user/NLofScotland • NLS at thedatahub o http://thedatahub.org/dataset/nls-forthbridge • NLS DOD at The Open Metadata Registry o http://metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/list/schema_id/64.html • Open Knowledge Foundation o http://okfn.org/ • Metadata Management Associates o http://managemetadata.com/ • freeyourmetadata.org • thedatahub.org