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Tag: Semantic Web

July 3, 2012 by Gary Price

OCLC: Linked Data Now Included in WorldCat Facebook App

via the OCLC Developer Network: The availability of Linked Data in WorldCat.org has everyone here very excited. We had been anxiously awaiting the chance to make use of this new feature in our own applications, and are now beginning to try it out. You may have already seen the bookmarklet developed by OCLC Developer Network […]

June 20, 2012 by Gary Price

OCLC Adds Linked Data to WorldCat.org Pages, Largest Set of Linked Bibliographic Data on Web

Today’s announcement about WorldCat and linked data follows Monday’s news that DDC 23 (Dewey Decimal Classification had been released as linked data. Now, today’s news. From OCLC: OCLC is taking the first step toward adding linked data to WorldCat by appending Schema.org descriptive mark-up to WorldCat.org pages. WorldCat.org now offers the largest set of linked […]

June 19, 2012 by Gary Price

New: DDC 23 (Dewey Decimal Classification) Released as Linked Data at Dewey.info

From a 025.431: The Dewey Blog (OCLC Dewey Team) Post by Michael Panzer: As announced on Monday at the seminar “Global Interoperability and Linked Data in Libraries” in beautiful Florence, an exciting new set of linked data has been added to dewey.info. All assignable classes from DDC 23, the current full edition of the Dewey […]

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Metadata: Preliminary Program for DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) 2012 Now Available

June 14, 2012 by Gary Price

The DCMI Annual Conference and two days of pre-con tutorials about semantic metadata are scheduled to take place in Kuching, Malaysia from 3 through 7 September 2012. Karen Coyle and Dan Bickley are two of the invited speakers at the conference. Coyle will present a tutorial titled, “Metadata for the Semantic Web” and will also […]

Linked Data: The Library of Congress Announces Modeling Initiative, Will Work With Zepheira

May 23, 2012 by Gary Price

From an LC Announcement: The Library of Congress is pleased to announce that it has contracted with Zepheira to help accelerate the launch of the Bibliographic Framework Initiative.  A major focus of the project is to translate the MARC 21 format to a Linked Data (LD) model while retaining as much as possible the robust […]

Semantic Web: W3C Launches Linked Data Platform Working Group

May 9, 2012 by Gary Price

From a W3C Announcement: Today W3C launched the new Linked Data Platform (LDP) Working Group to promote the use of linked data on the Web. Per its charter, the group will explain how to use a core set of services and technologies to build powerful applications capable of integrating public data, secured enterprise data, and […]

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Semantic Web/Linked Data Expert Richard Wallis Joins OCLC as Technology Evangelist

April 18, 2012 by Gary Price

From an OCLC Announcement: Richard Wallis, a consultant and distinguished thought leader in Semantic Web and Linked Data technology, has joined the OCLC staff as Technology Evangelist. He will be based in Birmingham, United Kingdom. [Clip] He will collaborate with members and facilitate projects with OCLC teams as libraries and the cooperative continue their efforts […]

Asking Complex Questions: "New Search Tool to Unlock Wikipedia"

March 28, 2012 by Gary Price

A new plug-in for use with Wikipedia data named “Swipe” will be demonstrated at the WWW conference next month. Until then, here’s some reading and viewing material about the technology. You have to wonder if Wolfram|Alpha is working on something similar utilizing their database? From New Scientist: Called Swipe – loosely short for “searching Wikipedia […]

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Semantic Web: ISBD Namespaces Published

February 8, 2012 by Gary Price

From IFLA: Namespaces for the consolidated edition of the International Standard Bibliographic Description (ISBD) have been published in Resource Description Framework (RDF), the basis of the Semantic Web. The namespaces can be accessed at http://iflastandards.info/ns/isbd/. The ISBD element set vocabulary includes RDF classes and properties corresponding to ISBD elements. Six concept vocabularies give the controlled […]

New: Issue 16 of the The Code4Lib Journal is Now Online

February 3, 2012 by Gary Price

Direct to The Code4Lib Journal (Issue 16) Table-of-Contents Includes abstracts for all article. Articles Include: Creating a Seamless Cross-Platform Online Experience for Mobile Users by Katherine Lynch HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org by Jason Ronallo Using VuFind, XAMPP, and Flash Drives to Build an Offline Library Catalog for Use in a Liberal Arts in Prison Program […]

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