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Infrastructure for heritage institutions – Open and Linked Data

In my June 2020 post in this series, “Infrastructure for heritage institutions – change of course ” , I said: “The results of both Data Licences and the Data Quality projects (Object PID’s, Controlled Vocabularies, Metadata Set) will go into the new Data Publication project, which will be undertaken […]

June 1, 2021October 23, 2023Data, Infrastructure, Libraryapi's, ARK, authority files, Catmandu, collections, content negotiation, DC, EDM, ETL, heritage, infrastructure, interoperability, LAM, library systems, licensing, linked data, marc, metadata, OAI, open data, persistent identifiers, rdf, Triply

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

Local library data in the new global framework

2011 has in a sense been the year of library linked data. Not that libraries of all kinds are now publishing and consuming linked data in great numbers. No. But we have witnessed the publication of the final report of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group, the […]

January 5, 2012February 14, 2020Libraryauthority files, bibligraphic framework, bibliographic formats, catalog, frbr, innovation, integration, libraries, library systems, linked data, metadata, rdf, semantic web

Missing links

The challenges of generating linked data from legacy databases Some time ago I wrote a blog post about the linked data proof of concept project I am involved in, connecting bibliographic metadata from the OPAC of the Library of the University of Amsterdam with the theatre performances […]

March 28, 2011January 12, 2020Librarycultural heritage, foaf, frbr, libraries, linked data, marc, metadata, rdf, theatre, tin, uba, uri

Do we need mobile library services? Not really

Mobile services have to fulfill information needs here and now Like many other libraries, the Library of the University of Amsterdam released a mobile web app this year. For background information about why and how we did it, have a look at the slideshow my colleague Roxana Popistasu […]

December 21, 2010February 14, 2020Libraryapps, augmented reality, catalog, library, library systems, linked data, location aware, location based, mobile, open data, rdf

Dutch Culture Link

Linking library and cultural heritage data “Interested to publishing a test collection as linked open data to help @StichtingDEN with practical guide for heritage institutions?” That’s what my former colleague at the Library of the University of Amsterdam, now project manager at DEN (Digital Heritage Foundation The Netherlands), […]

October 7, 2010January 12, 2020Librarycultural heritage, den, foaf, frbr, heritage, json, libraries, linked data, ontologies, rdf, skos, theater, tin, uba, uri, vocabularies

Linked Data for Libraries

Linked Data and bibliographic metadata models Some time after I wrote “UMR – Unified Metadata Resources“, I came across Chris Keene’s post “Linked data & RDF : draft notes for comment“, “just a list of links and notes” about Linked Data, RDF and the Semantic Web, put […]