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Metadata is a plural noun Karen Coyle NETSL, 2009

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Metadata is a plural noun

Karen CoyleNETSL, 2009

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Metadata

data about data

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Metadata

constructed

constructive

actionable

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real plane

tlongitude and latitude

metadata

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“turn left at...” navigation

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red line, green line subway navigation

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the human genome

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metaDATA

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Actionable

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Interact(ionable)

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where you need it

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metadata are for use

with apologies to Ranganathan

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library metadata

John Willis Clare. The care of books. 1901

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typed, then printed From: OCLC../cataloging/cards/

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Machine-readable catalog.loc.gov

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online

catalog.loc.gov

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records in a database/catalog

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think outside the (catalog) box

think about our data as data,not as catalog entries.

think about our data interacting with other data on the web.

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WorldCat Identities

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WorldCat Identities

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Obtain

Select

Identify

FRBR user tasks

A man walks up to a library catalog….

Find

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http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/mellon/

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semantic web

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Web

links between documents

One meaning: “link”

link

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web pages

are mostly text

blah blah Moby Dick blah blahwhales blah blah blah Herman Melville blah blah blah New Bedford,Massachusetts blah blah blah

blah blah Moby Dick blah blahwhales blah blah blah Herman Melville blah blah blah New Bedford,Massachusetts blah blah blah

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web pages

are mostly text

blah blah Moby Dick blah blahwhales blah blah blah Herman Melville blah blah blah New Bedford,Massachusetts blah blah blah

blah blah Moby Dick blah blahwhales blah blah blah Herman Melville blah blah blah New Bedford,Massachusetts blah blah blah

book

topic

author

geo loc

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identify your entitiesgive them names, identifiers

Person: Herman Melville

Book: Moby Dick

link

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make links meaning

Person: Herman Melville

Book: Moby Dick

is author of

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connect on the web

Person: Herman Melville

Book: Moby Dick

is author of

Company:

Random House

BookBook

Book

is publisher of

is publisher of

Topic: Whales & Whaling

Book

Book

is about

is about

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meanwhile

linked open data

http://linkeddata.org

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Machine-readable catalog.loc.gov

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Library data as LOD

What could you do with it?

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882

family name

fore name

datebirth

datedeath

what important world events happened during his lifetime?who was writing on science at the

same time?

show me a map of important places in his life

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From library catalog to LOD

Find earliest publicationdate; feed to copyrightanalysis program

openlibrary.org

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what is the earliest publication date for a book with the title Moby Dick?

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=216efa8c3b04764ca77ad181b1cc66e4

tag: openlibrary

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what is the earliest publication date for a book with the title Moby Dick?

pipes.yahoo.com

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WikipediaVladimir Nabokov

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From library catalog to LOD

FRBR leads the way

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What can we do?

1. Make our data harvestable so that others can use it2. Identify our data structures and vocabularies for

use on the web

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vocabularies easy to ‘webify’

languages

places

resource types

roles

names

subjects

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MARC vocabularies id.loc.gov

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RDA vocabularies metadataregistry.org

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RDA vocabularies metadataregistry.org

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RDA vocabularies metadataregistry.org

<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:skos="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://RDVocab.info/termLIst/ groupsInstr"> <dc:title>RDA Groups of Instruments</dc:title> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#ConceptScheme"/> </rdf:Description> <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://RDVocab.info/termLIst/groupsInstr/1004"> <rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#Concept"/> <skos:inScheme rdf:resource="http://RDVocab.info/termLIst/ groupsInstr"/> <skos:prefLabel>Plucked instruments</skos:prefLabel> </rdf:Description> </rdf:RDF>

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registry of RDA data elements

rdaonline.org

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What can we do?

1. Make our data harvestable so that others can use it

2. Identify our data structures and vocabularies for

use on the web3.Make our data more ‘data-

like’4. Make our systems more ‘cloud-

like’

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metadata are a growing organism

with MORE apologies to Ranganathan

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Thank you

[email protected]://www.kcoyle.net