Automatic publication of library and museum data into the LOD cloud

Ádám HorváthMuseum of Fine Arts, Budapest

SWIB14 : Semantic Web in Libraries Conference Bonn, 2 - 3 December, 2014

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Contents

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• Introduction• What is ALIADA• ALIADA features• ALIADA components• ALIADA project

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Introduction

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• ELAG 2010– Lightning talk• 1 library: the Hungarian National Library

– Entire catalogue, authority data, thesaurus

• SWIB10– Invited speaker• About the same topic

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Introduction

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• SWIB14 - Lightning talk– All libraries and all museums in the world• Bibliographic• Museum• Authority data

– Automatic publication into the LOD cloud• The only thing they have to able to provide is

their data in– MARC– LIDO– DC

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With the help of ALIADA

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• What is ALIADA?

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ALIADA is

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• Open source tool– Published under GPLv3 license

• Written in Java– JEE Web Application and application client modules

• Uses open source frameworks– Apache Struts – Apache Camel– Apache Velocity – Silk– Freelib-MARC4j

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ALIADA features

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• ALIADA ontology– FRBROO– SKOS-XL– FOAF–WGS84– OWL-Time

• Virtuoso RDF store– SPARQL endpoint

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ALIADA features

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• External link creation– SILK

• DBpedia• GeoNames• FreeBase• British National Bibliography• Spanish National Library• Europeana• Hungarian National Library• MARC Code List• Library of Congress Subject Headings• Lobid• VIAF• Open Library

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ALIADA features

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• Automatic registration– datahub.io

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ALIADA main components

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• User Interface

• RDFizer

• Links Discovery

• Linked Data Server

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RDFizer

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• REST interface• Handles conversion templates• Based on internal DSL– Easy to adapt another ontology or

change/improve the current mapping

• Entity detection–Works, Expressions, Manifestation– Persons, Organizations, Groups– Themes

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User Interface

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• Easy to use– Libarians or curators are able to use it

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ALIADA on Github

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• The first prototype is available– The earlier you start to use it, the more

chance to influence the end result

• https://github.com/ALIADA/aliada-tool/– https://github.com/ALIADA/aliada-tool/wiki– https://github.com/ALIADA/aliada-tool/issues

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ALIADA is also a project

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• ALIADA: Automatic publication under LInked DAta Paradigm of library Data

• Project supported by the European Commission under the 7th frame program.

• From November 2013 up to October 2015 (24 months)

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ALIADA is also a project

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• 5 partners – 3 different countries ( Spain, Italy, Hungary)

• 2 IT companies– SCANBIT (Spain)– @CULT (Italy)

• 2 art museums– ARTIUM (Spain)– Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Hungary)

• 1 research body with high skills in semantic technology– TECNALIA (Spain)

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