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Ten years linked open data

This post is the English translation of my original article in Dutch, published in META (2016-3), the Flemish journal for information professionals. Ten years after the term “linked data” was introduced by Tim Berners-Lee it appears to be time to take stock of the impact of linked data […]

June 4, 2016February 13, 2020Data, Libraryheritage, libraries, linked data, linked open data

Maps, dictionaries and guidebooks

Interoperability in heterogeneous library data landscapes Libraries have to deal with a highly opaque landscape of heterogeneous data sources, data types, data formats, data flows, data transformations and data redundancies, which I have earlier characterized as a “data maze”. The level and magnitude of this opacity and heterogeneity […]

August 3, 2015February 3, 2020Datadata formats, data management, dictionaries, enterprise service bus, esb, esperanto, guidebooks, interoperability, libraries, library systems, lingua franca, linked data, linked open data, maps, open data, rdf, service oriented architecture, soa, translation

Library Linked Data Happening

On August 14 the IFLA 2014 Satellite Meeting ‘Linked Data in Libraries: Let’s make it happen!’ took place at the National Library of France in Paris. Rurik Greenall (who also wrote a very readable conference report) and I had the opportunity to present our paper ‘An unbroken chain: […]

August 26, 2014January 12, 2020Libraryconferences, libraries, linked data, linked open data, open data, system development, system maintenance

Linked data or die!

Struggling towards usable linked data services at SWIB13 Paraphrasing some of the challenges proposed by keynote speaker Dorothea Salo, the unofficial theme of the SWIB13 conference in Hamburg might be described as “No more ontologies, we want out of the box linked data tools!”. This sounds like we […]

December 1, 2013January 12, 2020Libraryconferences, formats, infrastructure, libraries, library systems, linked data, linked open data, metadata, open source, swib, swib13

The poor person’s linked open data workbench

Using discovery tools for presenting integrated information There has been a lot of discussion in recent years about library discovery tools. Basically, a library discovery tool provides a centrally maintained shared scholarly material metadata index, a system for searching and an option for adding a local metadata index. […]

November 11, 2013February 3, 2020Datadiscovery tools, libraries, linked data, linked open data, metadata, open data, scholarly information