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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Libraries and linked data #6: Why publish library catalogues as open linked data?
This is the sixth and final paper introducing the concepts of RDF and linked data, and explaining how these Semantic Web technologies can be used to publish library catalogue data. The previous papers in this series, which serve as technical … Continue reading →
Libraries and linked data #5: Using the SPAR ontologies to publish bibliographic records
The SPAR (Semantic Publishing and Referencing) Ontologies are a suite of complementary and orthogonal ontologies written in the latest version of the Web Ontology Language OWL 2 DL, that have been specially created to permit information relating to bibliographic entities … Continue reading →
Posted in Linked data, Metadata, Ontologies, Semantic Publishing
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Tagged bibliographic records, biro, c4o, citation data, cito, DoCO, fabio, Journal articles, library catalogue, linked data, machine-readable metadata, ontologies, PRO, PSO, PWO, RDF, semantic publishing, spar, standards
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Libraries and linked data #4: A Comparison of RDF and XML
(Note: Understanding of this paper will be enhanced by prior reading of the earlier papers in this series: Libraries and linked data #1: What are linked data? Libraries and linked data #2: A rough guide to Turtle. Libraries and linked … Continue reading →
Posted in Linked data, Metadata, Ontologies, Semantic Publishing
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Tagged Document markup, linked data, machine-readable metadata, ontologies, RDF, semantic publishing, standards, XML
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Libraries and linked data #3: Encoding bibliographic records in RDF
Bibliographic index card records Although the majority of library catalogues are now digitized, under the hood most continue to use an index card paradigm similar to the one shown below for my CiTO paper [1], which uses PubMed tag-value pairs … Continue reading →
Libraries and linked data #2: A rough guide to Turtle
The purpose of this post is to provide a simple guide to help the uninitiated understand RDF documents written in Turtle. [Note 1: An introduction to the purpose of RDF in creating linked data has already been given the previous … Continue reading →
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Tagged linked data, machine-readable metadata, ontologies, RDF, semantic publishing, standards
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Libraries and linked data #1: What are linked data?
[Note: An introduction to this and the following five blog posts, all under the general title Libraries and linked data, is given in the previous post.] Linked data and RDF ‘Linked data’ are data encoded and published on the Web … Continue reading →
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Tagged linked data, machine-readable metadata, ontologies, RDF, semantic publishing, standards
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Linked Data 101
During a discussion with librarians towards the end of last year, I was asked why they should bother to publish their catalogues as open linked data, and how that might be done. For those of us already part of the … Continue reading →