MORE 'LINKED-DATA' POSTS
From ArtDaily.com: The British Museum has released “a Semantic Web version of the database complementing the Collection Online search facility. The Museum is the first UK arts organisation to instigate a Semantic Web version of its collection data. The new service brings the British Museum into the ‘linked data’ world and will allow software developers […]
New Article: "Exhibit 3.0 Part 1 – An Open Source Software Platform for Publishing Linked Data"
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|The following article was co-authored by MacKenzie Smith, Research Director at MIT Libraries and Eric Miller, Founder and President of Zepheira. It’s Part I of a two-part series published on SemanticWeb.com. Part II will be published later this month. It includes a couple of screenshots of Exhibit in action at LC. Title: “Exhibit 3.0 Part 1 […]
From SemanticWeb.com A recent article reports, “The Leibniz Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam has made all Dutch legislation available as CEN MetaLex and Linked Open Data through the MetaLex Document Server portal (MDS). [Clip] All metadata is published as RDF Linked Data, is linked to the original legislative sources, and uses standard […]
A superb “not to technical intro” that is absolutely worthy or your time and also worth sharing. Direct to Full Text Column: “Linked Data: A Way Out of the Information Chaos and Toward the Semantic Web” by: Michael A. Keller Source: EDUCAUSE Review (42.4; July/August 2011) A new approach to reducing the chaos of the […]
Conference Paper: "Linking to LCSH and LCC: Controlled Subject Headings and Classification Systems through the Web"
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Resources
|This paper will be presented at on August 16, 2011, at the World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly in San Juan. Title: “Linking to LCSH and LCC: Controlled Subject Headings and Classification Systems through the Web” (28 pages; PDF) Authors: Barbara Tillett, Libby Dechman, and Loche McLean (Library of […]
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus in SKOS/RDF Format
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News
|From LAC: Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce a new downloadable version of the Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus in SKOS/RDF format. The Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus is a bilingual thesaurus consisting of terminology that represents all the fields covered in the information resources of the Government of Canada. Library […]
"4 Stars for Metadata: an Open Ranking System for Library, Archive, and Museum Collection Metadata"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources
|From a Post on the Open Bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data Blog (Cross-Posted on Open Knowledge Foundation Blog and the Creative Commons Blog) This post was written by participants of the LOD-LAM Summit which was held on June 2nd/3rd in San Francisco and is crossposted on the Creative Commons blog and the OKFN blog. The […]
"OCLC to Release 1 Million Bib Records"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Interviews, Libraries, News, Profiles, Reports
|On The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory Blog, David Weinberger reports on Roy Tennant’s announcement about the one million bibliographic records during the LODLAM (Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives and Museums) conference earlier today. UPDATE: Dr. Weinberger has posted a six interview talk with Tennant.
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 […]
Conf. Slides: "Stories, That Persuade With Data. What’s Inside Scientific Papers, and Should it be Reengineered?"
Data Files, Elsevier, Journal Articles, Publishing, Resources
|Excellent slides from an extremely interesting presentation by Anita de Waard, Disruptive Technologies Director, Elsevier Labs. Topics include: + Linked Data + Fact Creation Through Citation + Data Driven Papers + Is the Research Paper Going Away? Direct to Slides: “Stories,That Persuade With Data. What’s Inside Scientific Papers, and Should it be Reengineered?”(via Slideshare) The […]