The Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland is delighted to announce the draft programme for the 3^rd CIGS LOD event: Linked Open Data: current practice in libraries and archives. 

This all day seminar will describe the practicalities of creating and using linked data in library and archival applications.  The seminar will be of interest to professionals involved in cataloguing, metadata, resource discovery, and data interoperability, and those with an interest in creating, publishing and using linked data and open data, and the development of the semantic web. 

Seminar details

Title           Linked Open Data: current practice in libraries and archives

Date           Monday 18^th November 2013

Time           10am-4pm
Venue        Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (please note new address)
                     High School Yards, Edinburgh, EH1 1LT

                      (http://edinburghcentre.org/contact-form.html)

Cost            £55 + 20% vat (£45 + 20% vat for CIG/CIGS members) 

Organiser   Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland

Draft Programme

10.00-10.30         Registration and coffee

10.30-10.40         Welcome and introductions: Graeme Forbes (CIGS  Chair)

10.40-11.15         Publishing the British National Bibliography as Linked Open Data / Corine Deliot, British Library

The presentation describes the development of a linked data instance of the British National Bibliography (BNB) by the British Library. The focus is on the development of an RDF data model and the technical process to convert MARC 21 Bibliographic Data to Linked Data using existing resources. BNB was launched as linked open data in 2011 on a Talis platform. In 2013 it was migrated to a new platform, hosted by TSO. The presentation discusses issues arising from the development, implementation and running of a linked data service. It also looks ahead to plans for future developments.

11.15- 11:50        SENESCHAL: Semantic ENrichment Enabling Sustainability of arCHAeological Links / Peter McKeague, RCAHMS, on behalf of the SENESCHAL Project team

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) along with its sister organisation in Wales (RCAHMW) and English Heritage are each responsible for a series of heritage thesauri and vocabularies. In Scotland, RCAHMS maintains the Scottish Monuments Thesaurus, and thesauri for archaeological objects and maritime craft. Although these key thesauri are available online for reference until now they have lacked the persistent Linked Open Data (LOD) URIs needed to allow them to act as vocabulary hubs for the Web of Data.  This presentation will explore the drivers for Linked Data for cultural heritage and the historic environment and the creation of thesauri as Linked Data, published through http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/ before discussing the practicalities of implementing Linked Data products in a working environment.  

11.50-12.25         How to publish local metadata as linked data / Gordon Dunsire, Chair, IFLA Namespaces Technical Group

This presentation will discuss methods for publishing local metadata records as linked data, using the National Library of Scotland’s database of metadata records for digital and digitised resources as a case study. Topics covered include developing database structures as element sets, extracting data and creating linked data triples, and creating links from local data to the global Semantic Web. The presentation will also include a demonstration system for a primitive linked data OPAC.

12.25-13.45         Buffet lunch

13:45-14:25         Can documents be Linked Data? / Kate Byrne, Edinburgh University School of Informatics

Plenty of great work is being done on extracting RDF from existing databases to create Linked Data that can be part of the semantic web. But there is a vast amount of information that is not in structured databases. Most of the information we use every day and curate in archives and libraries is in free text form: documents, books, web pages and so forth. This talk will describe research into extracting structured data - that can be turned into Linked Data - from natural language text. I will look at some of the issues likely to face anyone attempting this task, and also consider how to go about building connections between datasets, to make them full members of the Web of Data

14:25-15:00         LO(d) and Behold!: extending to the Giant Global Graph / Gill Hamilton, National Library of Scotland

Gill Hamilton, Digital Access Manager at National Library of Scotland will outline issues, tools, tips and techniques on how local library linked data can be linked to other linked data sets such as dbPedia (RDF representation of Wikipedia), Library of Congress Subject Headings and GeoNames.  The presentation will cover machine matching, crowdsourcing and brute force methods, and re-using other peoples’ efforts.  The presentation will be non-technical and will use examples from the National Library of Scotland.

 

15:25-16:00         Web tour and Q/A

                               

The seminar will end with an online tour of linked open data tools and datasets, followed by a question and answer session.

How to register

To register for this event, please contact Paul Cunnea, CIGS Secretary, at [log in to unmask].  Please indicate whether you are a CIG/CIGS member, and whether you wish to be invoiced or will pay on the day; include invoicing details as appropriate. Please note that delegates will be invoiced after the conference. Any queries regarding purchase orders or invoicing please contact CIGS Treasurer Ann Cameron at [log in to unmask]

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