Report on the International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives & Museums Summit

Adrian StevensonLOD LAM Summit Steering Committee

UKOLN, University of Bath, UK

Linked Data and Libraries 2011British Library, London

14th July 2011

LOD LAM Summit

• Summit held June 2-3rd in San Francisco

• 100 People from around the world

• Organiser: Jon Voss + organising committee

• Application process to attend• Generous funding• http://lod-lam.net/summit/

Organisations• Over 85 organisations represented• Libraries:

– Library of Congress, French & German National Libraries, British Library, NYPL

• Archives:– National Archives of the US and UK,

Archives Hub, California Digital Library• Museums:

– The Met, SFMOMA, Powerhouse, Smithsonian, UK Science Museum, Culture24

• Lots of LOD LAM activity already• http://lod-lam.net/summit/participants/

LOD LAM Summit Aims

• “catalyze practical, actionable approaches to publishing Linked Open Data”:– Identify the tools and techniques for publishing

and working with Linked Open Data– Draft precedents and policy for licensing and

copyright considerations regarding publishing of LAM metadata

– Publish definitions and promote use cases to give LAM staff the tools to advocate Linked Open Data in their institutions

How the Summit was organised

• Open Space Technology meeting format

• Initial session where collaboratively create agenda

• Then breakout sessions• Second day: focus on

actions, documentation, & collaboration over next year

Sessions: LOD ABC

• How to explain to non-techies

• How do you assess cost of LOD?

• What kind of training needed?

• How to sell the idea?– LOD FAQ for Librarians,

Archivists

Sessions: The Business Case for LOD

Sessions: Provenance/Scalability

• Same issue with attribution• Solutions: Named graphs? Quads? • Best Practice

Session: Rights and Open Data

• Proposed a ‘4-star classification-scheme for linked open cultural metadata’– ★★★★ Public Domain (CC0 / ODC PDDL / Public Domain

Mark)– ★★★ Attribution License (CC-BY / ODC-BY) when the

licensor considers linkbacks to meet the attribution requirement

– ★★ Attribution License (CC-BY / ODC-BY) with another form of attribution

– ★ Attribution Share-Alike License (CC-BY-SA/ODC-ODbL)• More on Summit blog at http://bit.ly/qpbZ50

Session: Crowdsourcing LOD

• Importance of quality interface• Ecosystem of interfaces to deal with problems - e.g.

correct errors• Issues of provenance - expert, authoritative

crowdsourced content vs general public contributions

• What can crowdsourcing help with?– Start simple, then build on emergent behaviours?

• Guidance needed on structured names for people and places

Session: Preservation of RDF, Vocabulary Maintenance

• LOCKSS (Lots of copies keep stuff safe) for vocabularies?• Vocabulary management toolkit:

– Metadata Registry.http://metadataregistry.org/– Drupal module. http://neologism.deri.ie/– http://vocab.org/– HIVE - Helping with Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering.

http://hive.nescent.org:9090/home.html• Best practices for vocabulary alignment

– When to use owl:sameAs, SKOS matches (skos:exactMatch, skos:closeMatch), rdfs:seeAlso

• Workshop on this at DC2011

Session: Users and Uses

• What user tools exist that we can build on?– BBC, Freebase, VIVO, Open Library, Zotero

• Need open-ended tools - some things that people might want to do:– Corrections– Timelines, maps, views– Mashups– re-expose info– filter, sort– Visualize– Share– …

More Sessions …• Lots more sessions…– Schema.org– RDFa and ePub session– Utilising existing vocabs

for modeling archives– Getting structured linked

data out of LAMS– …..

• More on the LOD LAM Pirate pad

• http://bit.ly/lodlamnotes

What next?• Connections made

and activities kick-started

• Many more LOD LAM events planned– Tag: #lodlam

• #lodlam #london– First meet yesterday– Bigger event planned

for November– http://bit.ly/oJ6qsl

CC Licence

• Sections of this presentation adapted from materials created by other LOD LAM Summit attendees

• This presentation available under creative commons Non Commercial-Share Alike:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/