Open Data at The European Library

Alastair DunningProgramme Manager@alastairdunningalastair.dunning@kb.nl

TEL Annual MeetingAmsterdamSeptember 2013

“ The coolest thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else ”

Rufus Pollock, Jo Walsh(University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Free_software

The European Library

Central index of 119m bibliographic records

Remote access to a further c.80m

Currently using this data limited to catalogue search

and API

But what if TEL offered a dataset there was open for any type of re-use, even if

that use was

•commercial•not requiring attribution

•open to being remixed

=> Creating a Creative Commons 0 datasetfrom metadata aggregated by TEL

Inspirations

What can be achieved ?

Delivering datasets of commercial search

providers, helping drive traffic back to libraries

Allows research projects to create subsets of data

specific to their topic(e.g. Cendari project on

WW1 and medieval resources)

Allow other developers to enrich the data, helping with

semantic interpretation, entity recognition (people,

places), clustering of similar or identical records

Visualising bibliographic records according to place

and time of publication

Creating Linked Open Data that allows creates

relationships between library metadata and other

datasets … which can enrich others’ datasets in turn

Initial request for responses went out to member libraries in Summer

2013.

TEL now working with libraries on issues

Aim to have dataset released by end of year

Next Up:

Nuno Freire- Technical issues in creating

Linked Open Data

Julia Fallon – Legal context