Moving from MARC: How BIBFRAME moves the Linked Data in Libraries conversation to large-scale action

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Moving from MARC: How BIBFRAME moves the Linked Data in Libraries conversation to large-scale action SWIB 2014 Semantic Web in Libraries December, 3, 2014 Bonn, Germany Eric Miller [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/erimille @erimille

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I believe that everyone benefits from the visibility of libraries and their content on the Web.

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Extremely encouraged • Tom Grahame - value proposition of “one page per thing” • Lessons learned from Europeana - “quantity has a quality all its own” • D-SWARM: middleware designed to empower domain experts (librarians) • Aliada - accelerate the publication of Library data in the Linked Open Data • Dan Scott - speak in the way the web understands • Richard Wallis - things not strings • #swib14

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A talk in 3 acts

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Act 1 : Context

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Minimum Viable Product,   Incremental Value, and Continuous Learning

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RDF 7

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hasInstance creator subject publisher publishedAt format Work Instance Authority Authority Authority Authority Authority

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BIBFRAME Vocabulary 9

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Linked Data "a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data 10

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General Technology Hype Cycle

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Phases of Linked Data / BIBFRAME Adoption Experimenters Early Implementers Data Publishers  & Connectors Mainstream Workflow Back Office Systems • Clarify Space • Determine the Need • Define a Foundation • Draft Specifications • Test the Assumptions • Draft Standards • Evaluate Data, Processes, & Gaps • Begin to work at scale • Use other’s data • Participate – Publish, Share, Connect • “Final” Standards & Best Practices • New businesses and models • “There’s Linked Data in there!?”

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Phases of Linked Data / BIBFRAME Adoption

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Act 2 : Tools - Transformation

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MARC as “Things not Strings”

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MARC as “Things not Strings”

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MARC as “Things not Strings”

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MARC as “Things not Strings”

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MARC as “Things not Strings”

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hasInstance creator subject publisher publishedAt format Work Instance Authority Authority Authority Authority Authority BIBFRAME Core model for deﬁning Web control points of bibliographic data for more effective sharing, navigation and collaboration Simple, replicable linked data patterns

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And we can replicate these simple patterns to deﬁne as many control points we need creator subject provider mediaCategory Work Instance Authority Agent Category Category agent place Agent Place carrierCategory Category contentCategory Language language Event

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A link is worth a 1000 words

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In Summary • Highly connected graph of data • Completely dark to the Web

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Act 2.5 : Tools - creation

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Opportunity

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BIBFRAME Proﬁles 35

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Small is Beautiful • BIBFRAME common model - flexible, designed to accommodate the needs of our community. • Recognize creative tension between past and future • Recognize creative tension of being useful across communities, but also community specific • Profiles are a simple, small, subset to of the model to support a specific community or entity description but sharable in a global context 36

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{ "Profile": { "id": "bfp:Monograph:Book", "title": "Monograph -- Book", "description": "An example profile reflecting the cataloging practices of example public library", "date": "2013-05-01", "contact": "Example Public Library cataloging help desk, [email protected]", "resourceTemplate": [ { "id": "bfp:Work:Book", "resourceLabel": "Book", "resourceURI": "http://bibframe.org/vocab/Book", "propertyTemplate": [ { "propertyURI": "http://bibframe.org/vocab/titleStatement", "propertyLabel": "Title" "type": "literal" }, { "propertyURI": "http://bibframe.org/vocab/subject", "propertyLabel": "Subject" "type": "resource", "valueConstraint": { "valueTemplateRef": [ "bfp:Agent:Person", "bfp:Agent:Organization", "bfp:Authority:Place", "bfp:Authority:ClassificationEntity", "bfp:Authority:Topic" ] } }, …..

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In Summary • Proof of concept extremely encouraging • Enormous potential for increased connectivity • No other community does authorities like we do • Control points for more effective discovery • Were making it extremely difﬁcult to connect • Lower costs to linking is critical to improved visibility

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Act 3 : Visibility

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Expectations of Library Web Visibility “When my community searches the Web for something we have, we better show up as an option.” - Chuck Gibson, Director & CEO   Worthington Public Library

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Can’t ignore the problem…

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Start with Agreement and Purpose “Everyone benefits from the visibility of libraries and their content on the Web.”

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Learning though action together

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Practical Practitioners Community http://zepheira.com/training

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Moving from web pages to “a web of data” 

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But we aren’t speaking in a way the Web understands We have a wealth of content and resources locked behind legacy, closed technology systems and niche vocabularies

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The traditional, Visible Web focuses on   Harvesting and Links to Pages

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The emerging Invisible Web focuses on   Data, Resources, Vocabulary, and Connections

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New Vocabularies and Characteristics  Retail – items, reviews, geo, descriptions, inventory, hours, social, events

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New Vocabularies and Characteristics  Movies – Geo, reviews, ratings, images, previews, times, tickets

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New Vocabularies and Characteristics  Restaurants – locations, reviews, hours, reservations, menus

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How does the Web see Libraries?

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Libraries = Community Businesses  Location, photos, hours, reviews, social, events

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If at all….

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External Perspectives • Are websites and systems harvestable? • Is there a uniﬁed and accessible industry vocabulary? • Are there strong connections and relationships? • What is the consistency and reliability of the user experience and available data?

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60+ Pages later.... still not even one entry that had anything to do with Libraries This is the now

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Hardcover This is what a search engine harvester sees. Unconnected data results in poor page rank.

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Hardcover isHeldBy isHeldBy isHeldBy isHeldBy isHeldBy Good

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Hardcover holds holds holds holds holds Better

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Hardcover holds holds holds holds holds holds holds holds Best! And Linked Data is a key

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A link is worth a 1000 words

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And this pattern is already happening in many localized markets as we speak

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But we’re very close • MARC To BIBFRAME (social) • Frustration with consolidation in marketplace (economic) • Web is increasingly actionable / semantic e.g. schema.org (technical)

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BIBFRAME Purpose and Promise • Purpose: Replacing MARC • Promise: So much more • Purpose: Serving Libraries • Promise: Related memory organizations and the users they serve • Purpose: Leverage existing Web standards to speak with a consistent voice • Promise: Visibility, Discovery and Effectiveness

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} Description Discovery Web Friendly

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“One Page Per Thing”

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Moving the Needle and Transforming the Web • NO NEED TO WAIT • Build on existing investments • Use BIBFRAME to reﬂect content in the Web • Leverage the Web’s cooperative infrastructure • Link between shared & Web assets to test impact on results • Help the Web understand library vocabularies • Connect into legacy systems

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Incremental Steps 1. Make it extremely easy to project Library data to Linked Data (BIBFRAME) 2. Start with Visibility – publish to the Web in a way the Web understands 3. Links! 4. RDFa (schema.org, BIBFRAME) 5. Increase discoverability 6. Accelerate linking among / across assets 7. Learn! Inform! Educate! Iterate!

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I We believe that everyone benefits from the visibility of libraries and their content on the Web. http://zepheira.com/linkeddatatraining-201501a/ http://libhub.org

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Getting Involved Learn more @ http://zepheira.com/solutions/library/ Code @ http://github.org/zepheira/pybibframe http://github.org/zepheira/bibframe-scribe

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Thank you Eric Miller [email protected]