{"id":1087,"date":"2010-10-29T12:40:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T11:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2010-10-29T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T11:40:14","slug":"dutch-culture-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2010\/10\/dutch-culture-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Culture Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px} span.Apple-tab-span {white-space:pre} -->This session by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lukask\">Lukas Koster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Works for Library of the University of Amsterdam was &#8216;system librarian&#8217;, then Head of Library Systems Department, now Library Systems Coordinator &#8211; means responsible for MetaLib, SFX &#8230; and new innovative stuff &#8211; including mobile web and the Dutch Culture Link project &#8211; which is what he is going to talk about today.<\/p>\n<p>Lukas is a &#8216;shambrarian&#8217; &#8211; someone who pretends they know stuff!<\/p>\n<p>Blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/commonplace.net\">http:\/\/commonplace.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lukas described situation in Netherlands regarding libraries, technology and innovation. How much leeway to get involved in innovation and mashups &#8211; depends very much on individual institutions and local situation. Large Library 2.0 community &#8211; but much more in public libraries &#8211; especially user facing widgets and UI stuff &#8211; via a Ning network. Have &#8216;Happe.Nings&#8217; &#8211; but more looking at social media etc. rather than data mashups. Lukas blogged the last one at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukaskoster.net\/2010\/06\/happe-ning-in-haarlem\">http:\/\/www.lukaskoster.net\/2010\/06\/happe-ning-in-haarlem<\/a>. Next Happe.Ning about streaming music services<\/p>\n<p>Lukas talking about Linked Open Data project &#8211; partners are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DEN &#8211; Digital Heriatage Foundation of the Netherlands &#8211; digital standards for heritage institutions, promoting linked open data &#8211; museums etc. &#8211; simple guidelines how to publish linked open data<\/li>\n<li>UBA &#8211; library of the University of Amsterdam<\/li>\n<li>TIN &#8211; Theater Institute of the Netherlands<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Objectives of project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set example<\/li>\n<li>Proof of concept<\/li>\n<li>Pilot<\/li>\n<li>Convince heritage institutions<\/li>\n<li>Convince TIN, UBA management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Project called &#8220;Dutch Culture Link&#8221; &#8211; aim to link cultural data and institutions through semantic web<\/p>\n<p>Linked data projects &#8211; 2 viewpoints &#8211; publishing and use &#8211; no point publishing without use.\u00a0Lukas keen that project includes examples of how the data can be used.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; the initial idea is that the UBA (Aleph) OPAC will be used to get data published from the TIN collection and enhance OPAC<\/p>\n<p>TIN use AdLib library system (AdLib also used for museums, archives etc.) &#8211; TIN contains objects and audio-visual material as well as bibliographic items<\/p>\n<p>Started by modelling TIN collection data model &#8211; entities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Person<\/li>\n<li>Part (person plays part in play)<\/li>\n<li>Appearance<\/li>\n<li>Production<\/li>\n<li>Performance<\/li>\n<li>Location<\/li>\n<li>Play<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Images, text files, a-v material related to these entities &#8211; e.g. Images from a performance<\/p>\n<p>Lukas talking about FRBR &#8211; &#8220;a library inward vision&#8221; &#8211; deals with bibliographic materials &#8211; but can perhaps be mapped to plays&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work = Play<\/li>\n<li>Expression = Production?<\/li>\n<li>Manifestation = Production?<\/li>\n<li>Item = Performance (one time event)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FRBR interesting model, but needs to be extended to the real world! (not just inward looking for library materials)<\/p>\n<p>Questions that arise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which vocabulary\/ontology to use?<\/li>\n<li>How to implement RDF?<\/li>\n<li>How to format URIs?<\/li>\n<li>Which tool, techniques, languages?<\/li>\n<li>How to find\/get published linked data?<\/li>\n<li>How to process retrieved linked data?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Needed training &#8211; but no money! Luckily were able to attend free DANS Linked Open Data workshop<\/p>\n<p>Decided to start with a\u00a0quick and dirty approach:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Produced URIs for data entities in TIN data &#8211; expressed data as JSON (not RDF)<\/li>\n<li>At the OPAC end:<\/li>\n<li>Javascript: construct TIN URI<\/li>\n<li>Process JSON<\/li>\n<li>Present data in record<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>URI:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&lt;base-url&gt;\/person\/&lt;personname&gt;<\/li>\n<li>&lt;base-url&gt;\/play\/&lt;personname&gt;\/&lt;title&gt;<\/li>\n<li>&lt;base-url&gt;\/production\/&lt;personname&gt;\/&lt;title&gt;\/&lt;opening&gt;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>e.g. URI &lt;base-url&gt;\/person\/Beckett, Samuel returns JSON record<\/p>\n<p>So, in OPAC, find the author name &#8211; form URI from information in MARC record &#8211; but strip out any extraneous information. Get JSON and parser with javascript, and display into OPAC.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8211; this not Linked Data yet &#8211; not using formal Ontology, not using RDF. But this is the approach &#8211; quick and dirty, tangible results<\/p>\n<p>Next steps: at &#8216;Publishing&#8217; end<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vocabulary for Production\/Performance subject area<\/li>\n<li>Vocabulary for Person (FOAF?), Subject (SKOS?)<\/li>\n<li>RDF in JSON (internal relationships)<\/li>\n<li>Publish RDF\/XML<\/li>\n<li>More URIs &#8211; form performances etc<\/li>\n<li>External links<\/li>\n<li>Content negotiation<\/li>\n<li>Links to a-v objects etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At &#8216;use&#8217; end:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More &#8216;search&#8217; fields (e.g. Title)<\/li>\n<li>Extend presentation<\/li>\n<li>Include relations<\/li>\n<li>Clickable<\/li>\n<li>More information &#8211; e.g. could list multiple productions of same play from script in library catalogue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Need to use generic, really unique URIs<\/li>\n<li>Person: ids (VIAF?)<\/li>\n<li>Plays: ids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This session by Lukas Koster. 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