Linked Open Data Libraries Archives Museums. This presentation is a basic overview of what LOD is and what technologies are needed to ensure the metadata around your collections is machine readable.

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4. The current web is a web of documents intended for h uman interpretation

5. Data is locked in closed silos

6. The linked data vision is to...

8. Making it possible for applications to look up (meta)data ...

9. ...about things books concepts people places by looking up their names http://dbpedia.org/resource/The_Metamorphosis on the web web web web web

10. But, to allow applications to look up metadata in your database, we need some technology

15. DBPedia... The main objective of DBpedia is to extract structured information from Wikipedia, convert it into RDF, and make it freely available on the Web. In a nutshell, DBpedia is the Semantic Web mirror of Wikipedia.

16. In a nutshell, the basics of LINKED OPEN DATA LINKED OPEN DATA LINKED OPEN DATA

17. Make your stuff available on the web (whatever format) under an open license

18. Make your data available as structured data (ex. CSV table instead of an image scan of a table)

19. Use non-proprietary formats (CSV instead of Excel)

20. Use URIs to identify things , so that people can point at your stuff

21. Link your data to other data to provide context

22. Linked data is essential to connect the semantic web

23. By linking up data, we gain access to many more databases & discover new connections