Authority Files and Web 2.0Wikipedia and the PND. An Example

Patrick Danowski

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Web 2.0

Web 2.0

Web 2.0

Term created for a O‘Reilly Conference 2005

Technics where already there:

Wikis

Blogs

Social Tagging

not only linking information / linking people

describe new ways of thinking services

Web 2.0Principles

Interactive

User contribution & feedback

Open services

Reuse / Remix Culture

Web 2.0Principles

Interactive

User contribution & feedback

Open services

Reuse / Remix Culture

Wikipedia

free encyclopedia

not free as beer, free as speech

about 650.000 Article in German-lang. Wikipedia

aprox. 175.000 about Persons (25 %)

Metadata for Persons

created in 2005

for the German Wikipedia DVD Project of Directmedia

done by the community with a half automatic tool

in between in 8 languages

WIKIPEDIA-METADATA

NAME=Müller, Gerd

ALTERNATIVNAMEN=eigentl. Gerhard Müller

KURZBESCHREIBUNG=deutscher Fußballspieler

GEBURTSDATUM=[[3. November]] [[1945]]

GEBURTSORT=[[Nördlingen]], [[Bayern]]

STERBEDATUM=

STERBEORT=

Metadata

PND-DATARECORD

IDN 118737465

005 Tp

011 /s/f

012 /svw

014 1250:01-07-88

021 4102290-7

100 Müller, Gerd

101 |a|Sport-B.

200 Müller, Gerhard

300 |a|1945-

310 |j|Dt. Fußballspieler

810 34.3p

WIKIPEDIA-METADATA

NAME=Müller, Gerd

ALTERNATIVNAMEN=eigentl. Gerhard Müller

KURZBESCHREIBUNG=deutscher Fußballspieler

GEBURTSDATUM=[[3. November]] [[1945]]

GEBURTSORT=[[Nördlingen]], [[Bayern]]

STERBEDATUM=

STERBEORT=

Metadata

Online-Catalogof Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

Wikipedia-Persondata-Tool

WikipediaPerson-article

Way of the Cooperation

Online-Catalogof Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

Wikipedia-Persondata-Tool

WikipediaPerson-article

Search after Persons

Way of the Cooperation

Online-Catalogof Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

Wikipedia-Persondata-Tool

WikipediaPerson-article

Search after Persons

full PND-Data

Way of the Cooperation

Online-Catalogof Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

Wikipedia-Persondata-Tool

WikipediaPerson-article

Search after Persons

full PND-Data

Way of the Cooperation

Online-Catalogof Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

Wikipedia-Persondata-Tool

WikipediaPerson-article

Search after Persons

full PND-Data

Entry of the PND-Number

Way of the Cooperation

Online-Catalogof Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

Wikipedia-Persondata-Tool

WikipediaPerson-article

Search after Persons

full PND-Data

Entry of the PND-Number

Link

Way of the Cooperation

Technical Realization

Technical Realization

Article Source

Article

Results of the Cooperation

Over 38.000 link articles

A lot correction wishes for the PND

Wikipedia a good starting point for a search

Wikipedia users can very easy become library users

Prototyp eines Linkresolvers

http://wikimeta.de/pnd/?pnd=118578537

Other Authority Files and Wikipedia

Other Authority Files and Wikipedia

GKD: Institutions

100 links

finding the ID is very hard / no retrieval webservice

Complicated structure

Other Authority Files and Wikipedia

SWD: Keywords

Already over 250 links

finding the ID is very hard / no retrieval webservice

Czech Names Authority Files

about 800 Links

Social Tagging

What is a Tag?

What is a Tag?

• Screenshots 2 del.icio.us

• Screenshots 2 del.icio.us

• Screenshots 2 del.icio.us

Social Literature Management

bibsonomy, citeUlike, Connotea

Social Literature Management

bibsonomy, citeUlike, Connotea

Social Literature Management

bibsonomy, citeUlike, Connotea

Social Literature Management

bibsonomy, citeUlike, Connotea

Social Tagging and Authority Files

Wikipedia: An Authority File for the net?

very often linked

One theme - one article eg. Wiki

every wikipedia-link index an document with a theme

article in every language has a persistent URL

open for use in every context

Conclusions

Authority files can have a role in the web 2.0

Conclusions

Authority files can have a role in the web 2.0

there must be an open interface/ service for retrieval

Conclusions

Authority files can have a role in the web 2.0

there must be an open interface/ service for retrieval

everything that is indexed on the net with authority files can be easy integrated in a federated search

Conclusions

Authority files can have a role in the web 2.0

there must be an open interface/ service for retrieval

everything that is indexed on the net with authority files can be easy integrated in a federated search

O‘Reilly: You have to found ways that your data get more important that more it will be used

And Now?

And Now?

Let‘s get open!

And Now?

Let‘s get open!

Enable people to use your data and it will get more important!

And Now?

Let‘s get open!

Enable people to use your data and it will get more important!

Contact:Patrick Danowskipatrick.danowski@sbb.spk-berlin.de

And Now?

Let‘s get open!

Enable people to use your data and it will get more important!

Contact:Patrick Danowskipatrick.danowski@sbb.spk-berlin.de

Tel +49 30 266 3536