Cataloguing and Indexing Group Scotland - 'Linked Data and the Semantic Web - what have libraries got to do with it?' National Library of Scotland, June 17, 2011 http://www.slainte.org.uk/events/EvntShow.cfm?uEventID=2671

1. Linking library and theatre data Lukas Koster Library Systems Coordinator Library of the University of Amsterdam http://www.uba.uva.nl @lukask Linked Data and the Semantic Web – CIGS June 17 2011, Edinburgh

2. Pilot project Linking library catalogue data to theatre performance data Dutch Digital Cultural Heritage Foundation DEN as instigator http://den.nl/ Library of the University of Amsterdam Theatre Institute of The Netherlands http://tin.nl/ http://www.uba.uva.nl/

4. Why, what, how, what not, results, problems, solutions?

5. Libraries are meant to be gateways to information

6. Helping customers find information

8. Services for customers Support finding information Give access to information WWW

9. Information is everywhere, elsewhere

10. People Objects Newspapers Museums Publishers Books Files Archives Libraries Digital Physical Images Text Memories Movies Music Sound Statistics Research Journals Data Maps Metadata Collections Buildings History Art Science Government Societies Stories Photos Reports Private Public Games Shows Education Nature Speech War Schools Love Theatre Poetry Location Fiction Facts Fantasy Animals

11. Different contexts Subject area Theatre Godot Personal context Library context Ad Aerts (@adaerts) Search No connection

12. Catalogue results

13. Catalogue results

14. Catalogue results Library catalogue = logistics and inventory system for storing and transporting physical items

15. Catalogue results Bibliographic metadata: description of physical attributes, location, availability

16. Nothing about the content

17. Library delivery

20. Theatre context http://theaterinstituut.adlibsoft.com/

21. Theatre context

22. Theatre context

23. Can we connect both contexts using linked data?

24. Two sides Publish Use

25. Publishing linked data URIs for all things Preferably persistent Return data in ‘machine readable format’ Triples/RDF/etc. Vocabulary/ontology

26. Using linked data 1. Construct URIs based on native metadata 2. Process returned RDF/Triples/etc. 3. Present results

27. A theatre play data model ‘ Play ’

31. What we made

33. How we did it - URIs < base-url >/person/Beckett, Samuel < base-url >/title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot JavaScript/JQuery HTML

34. How we did it – JavaScript/JQuery < base-url >/person/Beckett, Samuel < base-url >/title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot <base-url>/ production/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot/1988-11-22/6750 JavaScript/JQuery

36. Identifiers/URIs/String matching /title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot : a tragicomedy in two acts /title/Beckett, Samuel/En attendant Godot : pièce en deux actes /title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachten op Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting For Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachten op Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachtend op Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachten op Godot (De favorieten) /title/Beckett, Samuel/Wachten op Godot (eerste bedrijf) /title/Beckett, Samuel/En attendant Godot /title/Beckett, Samuel/Warten auf Godot

38. Links: FRBR, and more Waiting for Godot Wachten op Godot (NL) En attendant Godot (FR) Production 2009 Production 2010 Performance 1 Performance 2 Performance 3 Manifestation Item Work Expression 1st Edition 2007 2nd Edition 2010 Copy 1 Copy 2 Copy 3 Theatre Text/Publisher/Library FRBR Video registration Article Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Photo Library Catalogue

39. Ideally….

40. Current situation Implicit relations

42. ‘ 1st edition 1956, 1st print of this edition 1965’ ‘ Original title: En attendant Godot’ Links as text strings

43. MARC MARC record: - Identifiers to union catalogue records - Subfields with Autor name; Main title

44. JavaScript/JQuery HTML < base-url >/person/Beckett, Samuel < base-url >/title/Beckett, Samuel/Waiting for Godot < base-url >/person/068463928 < base-url >/title/841548528

45. $8 – Field link and sequence number Identifies linked fields and may also propose a sequence for the linked fields. Subfield $8 may be repeated to link a field to one or more other group of fields http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdcntf.html

48. Worldcat Identities Dutch Union Catalogue PICA - OCLC Digital Author Identifier

51. Dutch Union Catalogue PICA - OCLC

56. Cataloguing: linking FRBR Author Work RDA Author Work