Keynote at Online Information 2009, delivered on 3rd December. I discuss hype and reality and focus on linked data as the dominant design for publishing data on the web.
ISWC2009 Tutorial on Legal and Social Frameworks for Sharing Data on the Web http://www.opendatacommons.org/events/iswc-2009-legal-social-sharing-data-web/
While the complete history of the Internet could easily fill a few books, this article should familiarize you with key milestones and events related to the growth and evolution of the Internet between 1969 to 2009.
This paper describes the crisis of identity facing the World Wide Web and, in particular, the RDF community. It shows how that crisis is rooted in a lack of clarity about the nature of "resources" and how concepts developed during the XML Topic Maps effort can provide a solution that works not only for Topic Maps, but also for RDF and semantic web technologies in general.
Google Wave is the kind of open-source online collaboration tool that should drive scientists to wire their research and publications into an interactive data web, says Cameron Neylon.
Kim Cameron's Identityblog contributes to the discussion of Identity and Privacy issues and technology. If focuses on the user-centric identity metasystem, a technical architecture for building the Internet's missing identity area. It includes selections and comments on other related blogs, and related whitepapers, download and resources.
"I think we've gotten to the point in these discussions where we have to
define our terms. In the same way that "MARC" means both a structure and
data elements and a content standard, the terms FRBR and RDA are now
taking on multiple meanings."
"Without such a formal domain model, you're just creating 'text', not 'data'. Which is indeed what we used to do, when the text was destined for printed cards or pages. But now we need data."
It has been a couple of years since I posted statistics from WorldCat, so here is a new spreadsheet based on an October 1, 2009 snapshot (see the earlier post for an explanation of the table). WorldCat has changed dramatically...
* Alternative to OCLC cataloging already in some libraries
* Fewer records, emphasis on quality
* Copy cataloging record search and notification included
An ambitious project to create an online catalogue of every book in every language ever published is under way. Public goodwill is not in doubt, but some libraries remain to be convinced.
When I think about the library "catalog" I think that it will contain more than just metadata about library materials but also the materials themeselves. Think mostly books, journal articles, encyclopedia articles, definitions, images, data sets, etc. Moreover, the library "catalog" will enable people to do things with the items in the collection. It is more than just find and get.
A brief introduction to metadata which encompasses both the larger context of metadata (the web) and library catalogs. Includes a brief example of crosswalking metadata into MARC.
* Google has access to WorldCat metadata
* Google says bad metadata comes from external providers
* No restrictions on which WorldCat metadata fields can be used
Usually, historians are hard-pressed to find any original source material about those who have shaped our civilization. In the Internet era, scholars of science might have too much.
Are research libraries imperiled? Is the Internet driving a stake into their hearts? Maybe. Google, Science Direct, Factiva, and PubMed all “eliminate the middleman,” meaning us librarians. The richer the database, and the better the search interface, the less our customers need us. This is not a bad thing! This is a good thing! We want to be disintermediated! Almost every responsibility that we assume today, and every task we assume tomorrow, should be undertaken in the hope that one day our work will be done, or that we will be superseded by new, user-friendly systems of self-help. So. Is the Library dead? Yes. And then again, No.
In practice, it is assumed that most URNs will refer to on-line resources, and that a mechanism will exist which takes a URN and returns a list of URLs[20]. Another, intriguing, possibility is that URNs may be linked to other URNs rather than directly to URLs. This raises the prospect of their being used to establish a semantic network of pointers to resources - a true virtual library!
C. Concordia, S. Gradmann, и S. Siebinga. (June 2009)Paper for the Meeting: 193. Information Technology
at the "World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Council 23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy
http://www.ifla.org/annual-conference/ifla75/index.htm
Date submitted: 03/06/2009.
S. Thorin. (August 2003)Presented at e-Workshops on Scholarly Communication in the Digital Era, August 11-24, 2003. Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan..