Library Linked Data: Where Are We Headed?

A co-presentation with Andrew Nagy, formerly of Serials Solutions, on the future of library discovery.

1. WHERE ARE WE HEADED? Ross Singer, Talis Interoperability and Open Standards Champion   Andrew Nagy, Serials Solutions Market Manager North America, Discovery Services

2. … I have no idea. Any Questions?

3. A brief intro both started as a software developer both worked in libraries for many years both established open source projects both moved into corporate positions

4. So where are we headed? Software as a Service and Cloud Computing Web-scale Discovery Linked Data

5. Software as a Service (SaaS) Vendor Hosted Scalable Infrastructure Blahty blahty blah Saves time and money No servers to buy and replace every few years No updates to load

6. Very Centralized Very Decentralized Even Mix More Centralized Very Centralized

7. Cloud Computing Infrastructure that grows with your needs   Amazon EC2 Google App Engine OCLC QuickStart

8. Library Resource Discovery Web Search (Google, Yahoo, Etc.) WorldCat Next Generation Catalog (Discovery Layers) VuFind / BlackLight AquaBrowser / Primo / Encore

9. Next Gen Catalog: Only Half the Solution

10. Web-scale Discovery

11. Simple, Easy, Fast We are not attracted to Google because of it’s name We use it because of its attributes

12. Linked Data  

13. Tim Berners-Lee 4 Rules Use URIs as names for things Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information, using the standards (RDF, SPARQL) Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.          http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html  

14. Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde in RDF

15. Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde

16. sameas.org Bob Dylan   Blonde on Blonde      

17. http://purl.org/NET/lccn/75624382#i

18. Also available as RDF

19. http://purl.org/NET/lccn/2007432731#i

20. http://purl.org/NET/lccn/2007379628#i

21.   Putting it together