MORE 'SEMANTIC-WEB' POSTS
From a Gigom Article: The BBC’s R&D department unveiled an interesting take on the traditional electronic programming guide (EPG) this week that allows viewers to search for people, places and things across tens of thousands of movies and TV show episodes. Channelography is based on captions of close to 170,000 pieces of programming shown across […]
This latest issue of Panlibus (May 2011) includes a number of articles of possible interest. Here are titles of few of them. The full text of Panlibus is free. (32 pages; PDF) 1. “Do libraries have a future?” (page 8) by Alan Gibbons 2. “Kindles as carriers for academic library materials” (page 11) by Jolanta […]
Presentation Slides: "Intro to Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives & Museums"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News
|Here’s an EXCELLENT intro presentation about linked data by Jon Voss, founder of LookBackMaps, that’s also full of links to explore. Voss delivered the presentation on April 29, 2011 at the LODLAM (Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives and Museums) Bootcamp prior to the opening of the Great Lakes THAT Camp taking place in East […]
Metadata/linked data and semantic web expert, Karen Coyle (she’s also an award winning author), has published an informative item on her blog for anyone wanting to learn more about linked data. The post comes a few weeks before Coyle participates in the RDA and the future of library metadata webinar. Three part series (one session […]
"New Linked Data for Libraries"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Publishing
|From a SemanticWeb.com Posting: A new blog post discusses some “big news for folks interested in Library Linked Data: CrossRef has made the metadata for 46 million Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) available as Linked Data. DOIs are heavily used in the publishing space to uniquely identify electronic documents (largely scholarly journal articles). CrossRef is a […]
Conference Presentation: Dr. Thomas C. Rindflesch from NLM Discusses "Semantic MEDLINE An Advanced Information Management Application for Biomedicine:
Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Resources
|Dr. Rindflesch is an Information Research Specialist at the National Library of Medicine. He spoke at the 2011 NFAIS (National Federation of Advanced Information Services) annual conference at the end of February in Philadelphia, PA. Title: “Semantic MEDLINE: An Advanced Information Management Application for Biomedicine“ Direct to 23 PowerPoint Slides See Also: Direct to Semantic […]
An HTML version of the book is free online. PDF and hard copy copy versions are also available for a fee. By: Tom Heath, Talis and Christian Bizer , Freie Universität Berlin Published by: Morgan & Claypool From the Abstract: The World Wide Web has enabled the creation of a global information space comprising linked […]
From a Semanticweb.com Blog Post The BBC has published a new ontology which they are calling, simply, the Sport Ontology: “The Sport Ontology is a simple lightweight ontology for publishing data about competitive sports events.” The ontology should allow data to be published about the structure of sports tournaments, competition, disciplines that an event involves, […]
This glossary (free) and list of materials (free) are part of the new Taxonomy Guide (fee-based) from the iSchool Institute at the University of Toronto. From SemanticWeb.com The iSchool Institute goes on to explain that The Taxonomy Guide is both a reference resource and a learning tool “designed to help you master the concepts, relationships […]