Linking Collections Through Linked Open Data
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A bridge across Europe: linking collections at international level RLUK workshop Birmingham, October 2014
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Linking Collections Through Linked Open Data
Nuno Freire
A bridge across Europe: linking collections at international levelBirmingham, October 2014
Presentation Outline
Context• The trend in research practices supported by
semantic web technology
Why collection descriptions as Linked Data
Ongoing and future work at The European Library
Linked Data and Research
Research is becoming highly data-centred and supported by large-scale research data infrastructures
Research infrastructures are deploying Semantic Web technology to support the precise information needs of researchers for research data• This trend can be observed in several research
disciplines
Ontologies in Research Infrastructures
Data integration activities within Research Infrastructures and Virtual Research Environments often employ ontologies
Work in this area is also in progress in the CENDARI Virtual Research Environment
Ontology building addressing the scientific areas of CENDARI:• An ontology for the First World War • …and another for Medieval Manuscripts
Ontologies in Research Infrastructures
Linkage of researchers, research outputs, organisations, funders…
Research social networks Standard Name Identifiers Current Research Information Systems
Impact of linked data on the researcher’s information needs
Linked data will support new ways to gather the relevant resources for particular research problems:• No longer by searching using names and
keywords …• … but by querying and browsing based on
specific entities and concepts
To ensure optimal discoverability, collection descriptions should be made available in a form that will exploit the capabilities of research infrastructures on linked data• Linked to ontologies for best data integration• Linked to entities via standard identifiers
Impact of linked data on the discoverability of collections
The ongoing work at The European Library
From textual descriptions into structured data
The future work at The European Library
From structured data into Linked Data
