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Connections: Piloting linked data to connect library and
archive resources to the new world of data, and staff to new skills
Laura AkermanMetadata Librarian
Robert W. Woodruff LibraryEmory University
Zheng (John) WangAUL, Digital Access, Resources, and ITHesburgh Library
Notre Dame University
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Who has presented most frequently at CNI?
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Current Model: Search and Discover
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Metadata Published as Documents
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Require Human to Decipher
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Linked Data Model: Find
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Semantic Graph Model
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Machine Understands Semantics
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RDF Triple
Subject ObjectPredicate
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RDF Triple
Laura ConnectionsLecture
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RDF Triples
Laura ConnectionsLecture
CNI
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John
Kno
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Year
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Reuse, Authority Control, Knowledging Linking...
Relevant to What We Do
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Connections Pilot
To Interlink EAD, Catalog, and Other External Resources
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Connections: Context
Little Time to Learn Additional New Things
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Hands-on learning
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Ingredients• Leader/teacher/evangelist• Learning group – open to all
o 2 "classes" a month, 5 months. • Pilot: 3 months
o Brainstorming a pilot projecto Start small o Team: programmer, subject liaison, metadata
specialists, archivist, digital curator, fellow. o 1-3 hrs/week for all but leadero A sandbox running Linux
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The Pilot:Grand Ambitions
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Maps
Our Own Triplestore
RDF from EAD
RDF from TEI
RDF from MARCXML (and MARC)
Data from other archives CW150
Other data
Timelines
User interface Navigation
DBPedia
id.loc.gov
Integrate linked data into discovery layer (catalog)?
SPARQL
Civil War
Redesign metadata creation as RDF
Faculty project
National Park Service Data
Rosters
Crowdsourcing
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3 months later...
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Sampling little bites of the meal:
Visualization – Simile Welkin
EAD (starting from ArchiveHub stylesheet
Sesame triplestore
MARCXML (starting from LC DC stylesheet)
id.loc.gov URIs for LC subjects and names (scripted)
DBPedia/subjects (by hand)
Make some RDF metadata
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HTTP:OurResourceURL
HasSubject"Mobley, Thomas"
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HTTP:OurResourceURL
HasSubject rdfs:resource HTTP://OurPersonMobleyT1rdfs:label""Mobley, Thomas"
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hasSubject
HTTP:OurPersonMobleyT1
memberOf
Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 48th
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hasSubject
HTTP:Our Mobley Tom1
memberOf
48th Georgia Infantry http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99264720
hasSubject
sameAs
DBPedia:http://dbpedia.org/page/48th_Georgia_Volunteer_Infantry
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Confederate miscellany collection, 1860-1865
isPartOf
heldBy
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We learned:
Selecting material that will “link up” without SPARQL, is too hard!
Even when items are in a unified “discovery layer”, the types of search are limited.
Get it into triples, then find out!
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We learned:
There are many ways of modeling data
• No one model to follow has emerged. We have to think about this ourselves.
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ArchivesHub handles subjects:<associatedWith><!--About the Concept (Person)--><skos:Concept xmlns:skos="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#" rdf:about="http://duchamp.library.emory.edu/resource/id/concept/person/lcnaf/gearyjohnwhite1819-1873">
<rdfs:label xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xml:lang="en">Geary, John White, 1819-1873.</rdfs:label>
<skos:inScheme> <skos:ConceptScheme rdf:about="http://duchamp.library.emory.edu/resource/id/conceptscheme/lcnaf"> <rdfs:label xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xml:lang="en">lcnaf</rdfs:label> </skos:ConceptScheme> </skos:inScheme> <foaf:focus xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"><!--About the Person--><foaf:Person rdf:about="http://duchamp.library.emory.edu/resource/id/person/lcnaf/gearyjohnwhite1819-1873"> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Agent"/> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/terms/Agent"/> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://erlangen-crm.org/current/E21_Person"/> <rdfs:label xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xml:lang="en">Geary, John White, 1819-1873.</rdfs:label> </foaf:Person> </foaf:focus> </skos:Concept> </associatedWith>
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LC's MARCXML to RDF/Dublin Core:
dc:subject "Geary, John White, 1819-1873."
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Simile MARC to MODS to RDF:<modsrdf:subject rdf:resource= "http://simile.mit.edu/2006/01/Entity#Geary_John_White_18191873"/> <rdf:Description rdf:about= "http://simile.mit.edu/2006/01/Entity#Geary_John_White_18191873"> <rdf:type rdf:resource= "http://simile.mit.edu/2006/01/ontologies/mods3#Person"/> <modsrdf:fullName>Geary, John White </modsrdf:fullName> <modsrdf:dates>1819-1873</modsrdf:dates </rdf:Description>
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Linked data is HUGE It’s coming at us FASTIt’s not “cooked” yet
We learned:
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More learnings
• We learned more by doing than by "class".
• Making DBPedia mappings or links by hand is very time consuming! We need better tools.
• We need to spend a lot more time learning about OWL, and linked data modeling.
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Challenges
• Easily available tools are not ideal!• Skills we needed more of: HTML5, CSS,
Javascript• Time! • Visualization/killer app not there yet.• Can't do things without the data! No timeline
if no dates!
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What we got out of it
Test triplestore for training and more development
Better ideas on what to pilot nextConvinced some doubters"Gut knowledge“ about triples, SPARQL, scaleBeginning to realize how this can be so much more than a better way to provide "search"
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Outside our reach for now
Transform ILS system to use triple store instead of MARC
Create hub of all data our researchers might wantMake a bank of shared transformations for EAD,
MARC, etc. Shared vocabulary mappings Social/networking aspect (e.g. Vivo, OpenSocial...)
- need a culture shift?
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Next? Maybe...
Build user navigation?More Civil War triples including other local institutions’ stuff?Publishing plan?Integrate ILS with DBPedia links?Suite of “portal tools” for scholars?Use linked data for crowdsourcing metadata?More classes?Connect with others at Emory around linked data
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Recommendation: Individual Institutions
• Focus on unique digital content• Publish unique triples• Reuse existing linked data
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Recommendation: Community
• Create standards or best practices
• Grow our skills• Test and evaluate tools• Develop tools
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Recommendation: Librarians’ Role?
• Interdisciplinary linking? • Metadata librarians - Linking association and
normalization
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Acknowledgements
Connections group sponsors: Lars Meyer, John EllingerConnections Pilot team: Laura Akerman (leader), Tim
Bryson, Kim Durante, Kyle Fenton, Bernardo Gomez, Elizabeth Roke, John Wang
Fellows who joined us: Jong Hwan Lee, Bethany NashOur website:
https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/connections/ Laura Akerman, [email protected] Wang, [email protected]
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Thanks
Q&A