opening up: bibliographic data sharing & interoperability
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Presentation given at CILIP multimedia and information technology group conference, April 2013TRANSCRIPT
Opening up: bibliograpic data sharing &
interoperabilityBethan Ruddock @bethanar
MmIT CloudBusting, April 2013
The problemYou have valuable data that you want to share…
… but it’s locked inside your systems
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Push discovery, help researchers find more
stuff, promote use of your collections,
enable cool things like data mining and
visualisations, combine with other data sets, make the most of your time and effort, store data in sustainable formats, allow others to enhance your data, embed in other sites and
catalogues, enable global access, back-up
valuable data, benchmark & collaborate
Why share your data with the cloud?
Set your data free
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What will a cloud service do with your data?
Store & protect
Combine multiple data sets
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What will a cloud service do with your data?
Store & protect
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Some cloud services are designed just for storage
Or for storage and client-side collaboration
What will a cloud service do with your data?
Store & combine multiple datasets
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For others, storage won’t be the main function
They’ll be designed to ‘do stuff’ with
the data: combine it with other
datasets; make it available in new
formats & interfaces
These services will usually be defined by what they do with the data.
You might not even think of them as cloud services…
The format your data needs to be in will depend which cloud service you’re sending it to, and what you want done with that data.
Storage & collaboration services:Native data format, or whatever you & your
collaborators need to work inTry to choose compact & sustainable formats
Combination services:Whatever format the service requires
This will usually be the same as the other data sets, or transformable/interoperable
Data format
Check what formats you can export data in.CSV? SQL text format? HTML? Plain text?
Consider:What format is most appropriate?
Archive catalogues – EAD?Library catalogues – MARC? MODS XML?Linked data – RDF? Dublin Core XML?
Is it interoperable? Consistent? Transformable?Will it enable the service to meet its aims?
How is it licensed?
Data format
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Are there barriers to sharing your data?Licensing & data ownership
Loss of controlLegal barriers to sharing
No time/resource to output dataWhat are the risks of sharing?
Lose access to serviceData compromised
What are the risks of not sharing?Data is isolated in a ‘silo’
Don’t meet sharing/outreach objectivesOnly have single, local copy of data
Barriers and risks
When choosing a cloud service:
Why do you want to open your data to the cloud?
Does this service meet your needs?
Does it meet your users needs?
Is your data in the right format?Or can you transform it to be?
Can you get your data out of the cloud service?
In an appropriate format?
Is the service interoperable?Is the service sustainable?
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Does the service put a certain licence on your data?
Who do they share it with?
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Pairs of resource descriptions, describing the same resource using different schemas.Does one of these schemas describe the resource better than another?What aspects of the resource have they described well? Have they missed aspects, or described them badly? How interoperable is each description? For humans? For computers?What would you need to do to this data to share it with others?What purpose do you think each schema would best be used for?
Hands-on
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