opening new doors: recent initiatives in open data at national library of scotland
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Presentation given at IFLA 2012 (Helsinki) on National Library of Scotland's low cost initiatives and developments with open data and linked open data. Includes loading of data and resources to Flickr and Youtube. Work with Open Knowledge Foundation on how to publish open data. Licensing open data as CC.0. Work with freeyourmetadata.org to learn how to use Google Refine for URI resolution. Work with Metadata Management Asssociates to model structure of the Library's Digital Object Database as RDF.TRANSCRIPT
opening new doors recent initiatives in open data at
National Library of Scotland
Gill Hamilton
Systems Librarian
agenda
o "widening access to knowledge"
o opening data to social media services
o the move to open data
o finding our way with linked open data
widening access to knowledge
"we will make
digital resources accessible
through
communications media
which are effective in
promoting the use and discovery
of our collections."
widening access to knowledge
"we will improve
access to our collections
by finding
new ways
for our users to
interact with us
and
others."
social media services
Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland
• 2,500 images
• 1,500 views per day
• 1.8 million views in total
• 10% have comments
social media services
Flickr 52,000 views
114 favorited
20 comments
"It is a Lee Enfield gun .."
"I'm doing a presentation,
may I use the image?"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/3012796098/
social media services
You 102 videos
300,000 views
186 comments
"Fab wee motor."
"My parents had one
of these"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9l01vy7y3w
Tube
social media services
Licensing, copyright and rights
• out of copyright and/or copyright owner
• to gain benefits you must give away
some or all control
• Flickr The Commons
social media services
Lessons learned....
• minimal investment for improved access
• taster of the Library's collections
• the world is full of knowledgeable people
• to gain benefits you have to give something up
• findability beyond the Library website
• open ... but not open enough
open data
is the concept that data
is made available
so others can use
and re-use it
without restrictions
of copyright
or control mechanisms
open data
if you created the metadata
then you can license it as you wish
if you create or own the resource
then you can license it as you wish
open data
CC.0
open data
The 5 easy steps to open data
1. licensed
2. structured
3. documented
4. published
5. publicised
"Give us raw data and give it to us NOW!"
open data
The 5 easy steps to open data
• licensed CC.O
• structured Solr XML, MARC21, Dublin Core
• documented don't make assumptions
• published thedatahub
• publicised twitter, blog, conference
open data
http://thedatahub.org/dataset/nls-forthbridge
linked open data
What we don't have .... experience
skills
resources
What we do have ... great data
lots of enthusiasm
friends to help
linked open data
What we did until April 2012
stop ... start ... stop ... start ... stop ... start
• went to school to learn RDF
• tried mapping our data to DC Terms
• tried to discover URIs
• created RDF for a single resource
• wondered what to do next
• wondered if it was worth our while
linked open data
And then we spoke to our friends:
freeYourMetadata.org
"you should use Google Refine to discover URIs"
Open Knowledge Foundation
"use theDataHub.org for publishing & use CC.0"
Metadata Management Associates
"let us help you model your data because we
have a theory ..."
linked open data
DOD data
structure DOD.title DOD.keyword DOD.who
local & closed global & open
X
S
L
T
LOD in DC
linked open data
DOD data
local & closed
global & open
DOD in LOD
structure DOD.title DOD.keyword DOD.who
linked open data
DOD data
local & closed
global & open
DOD in LOD
structure DOD.title DOD.keyword DOD.who
R
D
F
m
a
p
MARC
ISBD
DC
BBC
linked open data
linked open data
linked open data
Next steps ....
• keep learning .... keep asking!
• publish structure and data to theDataHub
o Forth Bridge
o Haig photos
o Everything!
• record URIs at metadata creation
• address licensing issues with vocabularies
• hope someone uses it!
Thank you ....
References • NLS at Flickr & YouTube
o http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlscotland/
o http://www.youtube.com/user/NLofScotland
• NLS at thedatahub o http://freeyourmetadata.org/
• NLS DOD at The Open Metadata Registry o http://metadataregistry.org/schemaprop/list/schema_id/64.html
• Open Knowledge Foundation o http://okfn.org/
• Metadata Management Associates o http://managemetadata.com/
• freeyourmetadata.org
• thedatahub.org
Me Gill Hamilton