Now Available: Slides from IFLA Semantic Web SIG Open Meeting
The second open meeting of the IFLA Semantic Web Special Interest Group (SWSIG) took place during the IFLA Annual Conference (WLIC 2012) in Helsinki during August.
The slide deck embedded below includes presentation slides or links to presentations/papers from:
+ Emmanuelle Bermes: Welcome and introduction to Semantic Web / Linked data
+ Gordon Dunsire: Application of IFLA Namespaces
+ Sally Mc Callum: Bibliographic Framework update
+ Marianne Clatin: Licensing issues within the Linked data project of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
+ Eetu Mäkelä: Practical linked library data applications created in the Semantic Computing Research Group of Aalto University in collaboration with libraries
+ Ricardo Santos Muñoz: News from datos.bne.es: Linked data at the national library of Spain
+ Christian Sifaqui: Web semantic at the Library of the National Congress of Chile
+ Lars Svensson: Linked data activities in the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
+ Richard Wallis: Linked Data developments in Worldcat and VIA
+ Neil Wilson: Linked Data developments in the British Library
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.