{"id":276,"date":"2015-09-01T08:40:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T08:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2015\/09\/01\/linking-data-in-sydney\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:30:22","slug":"linking-data-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2015\/09\/01\/linking-data-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Linking Data in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41.media.tumblr.com\/c26970cb6dfad09c2bdb300fc9a4d57c\/tumblr_inline_ntqpqfkY801sst51o_540.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By Geoff Browell, Head of Archives Services<\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate to attend the biennial Linked Open Data,<br \/>\nLibraries, Archives, Museums summit in early July in Sydney, Australia. I<br \/>\nplayed a very small role in setting it up, as a member of the organising<br \/>\ncommittee. The conference is an opportunity for archivists, librarians, museum<br \/>\ncurators and information professionals and IT experts to meet and discuss the<br \/>\nlatest developments in Linked Data among higher education, heritage and<br \/>\n\u2018memory\u2019 institutions, worldwide. Delegates have the chance to hear about<br \/>\nsuccessful (and unsuccessful) projects and take part in targeted discussions on<br \/>\nthe future of the technology, and encourage new collaborations. The event<br \/>\nfeatures the \u2018Challenge\u2019 \u2013 an open competition for the best application of<br \/>\nLinked Data in a cultural setting. \u00a0The<br \/>\nsummit adopts the \u2018un-conference\u2019 format without pre-prepared papers, at which<br \/>\nrelevant issues can be aired and debated and sub-groups convened to address<br \/>\nspecific topics.<\/p>\n<p>View this graph of attendees: <a href=\"https:\/\/graphcommons.com\/graphs\/0f874303-97c2-4e53-abc6-83a13a1a2030\">https:\/\/graphcommons.com\/graphs\/0f874303-97c2-4e53-abc6-83a13a1a2030<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What is Linked Data?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Linked Data is a way of structuring online and other data to<br \/>\nimprove its accuracy, visibility and connectedness. The technology has been<br \/>\navailable for more than a decade and has mainly been used by commercial<br \/>\nentities such as publishing and media organisations including the BBC and<br \/>\nReuters. \u00a0For archives, libraries and<br \/>\nmuseums, Linked Data holds the prospect of providing a richer experience for<br \/>\nusers, better connectivity between pools of data, new ways of cataloguing<br \/>\ncollections, and improved access for researchers and the public.<\/p>\n<p>It could, for example, provide the means to unlock research<br \/>\ndata or mix it with other types of data such as maps, or to search digitised<br \/>\ncontent including books and image files and collection metadata. New, more<br \/>\nrobust, services are currently being developed by international initiatives<br \/>\nsuch as Europeana which should make its adoption by libraries and archives much<br \/>\neasier. There remain many challenges, however, and this conference provided the<br \/>\nopportunity to explore these.<\/p>\n<p>The conference comprised a mix of quick fire discussions,<br \/>\nparallel breakout sessions, 2-minute introductions to interesting projects, and<br \/>\nthe Challenge entries.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/40.media.tumblr.com\/9623a9efb3d0e1c6baeb17864fe118ae\/tumblr_inline_ntqpdvg55V1sst51o_540.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>[photo: Work in progress at the LODLAM summit]<\/p>\n<p><b>Quick fire points<br \/>\nfrom delegates<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Need for improved visualisation of data (current<br \/>\nvisualisations are not scalable or require too much IT input for archivists and<br \/>\nlibrarians to realistically use)<\/li>\n<li>Need to build Linked Data creation and editing<br \/>\ninto vendor systems (the Step change model which we pursued at King\u2019s Archives<br \/>\nin a Jisc-funded project)<\/li>\n<li>Exploring where text mining and Natural Language<br \/>\nProcessing overlap with LOD<\/li>\n<li>World War One Linked Data: what next? (less of a<br \/>\ntheme this time around as the anniversary has already started)<\/li>\n<li>LOD in archives: a particular challenge?<br \/>\n(archives are lagging libraries and galleries in their implementation of Linked<br \/>\nData)<\/li>\n<li>What is the next Getty vocabularies: a popular vocabulary<br \/>\nthat can encourage use of LOD?<\/li>\n<li>Fedora 8 and LOD in similar open source or<br \/>\nproprietary content management systems (how can Linked Data be used with these<br \/>\npopular platforms?)<\/li>\n<li>Linked Data is an off-putting term implying a<br \/>\ndata-centric set of skills (perhaps Linked Open Knowledge as an alternative?)<\/li>\n<li>Building a directory of cultural heritage<br \/>\norganisation LOD: how do we find available data sets? (such as Linked Open<br \/>\nVocabularies)<\/li>\n<li>Implementing the European Data Model: next steps<br \/>\n(stressing the importance of Europeana in the Linked Data landscape)<\/li>\n<li>Can we connect different entities across<br \/>\ndifferent vocabularies to create new knowledge? (a lot of vocabularies have<br \/>\nbeen created, but how do they communicate?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Day One sessions<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>OASIS Deep Image<br \/>\nIndexing (<\/b><b><\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.synaptica.com\/oasis\/\">http:\/\/www.synaptica.com\/oasis\/<\/a><\/b><b>). <\/b><\/p>\n<p>This talk showcased a new product called OASIS from<br \/>\nSynaptica, aimed at art galleries, which facilitates the identification,<br \/>\nannotation and linking of parts of images. These elements can be linked<br \/>\nsemantically and described using externally-managed vocabularies such as the<br \/>\nGetty suite of vocabularies or classifications like Iconclass. This helps<br \/>\ncurators do their job. End users enjoy an enriched appreciation of paintings<br \/>\nand other art. It is the latest example of annotation services that overlay useful<br \/>\ninformation and utilise agreed international standards like the Open Annotation<br \/>\nData Model and the IIIF standard for image zoom.<\/p>\n<p>We were shown two examples: Botticelli\u2019s The Birth of Venus<br \/>\nand Holbein\u2019s The Ambassadors for impressive zooming of well-known paintings<br \/>\nand detailed descriptions of features. Future development will allow for<br \/>\ncrowdsourcing to identify key elements and utilising image recognition software<br \/>\nto find these elements on the Web (\u2018find all examples of images of dogs in 16<sup>th<\/sup><br \/>\ncentury public works of art embedded in the art but not indexed in available<br \/>\nmetadata\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>This product mirrors the implementation of IIIF by an<br \/>\ninternational consortium that includes leading US universities, the Bodleian,<br \/>\nBL, Wellcome and others. Two services have evolved which offer archives the<br \/>\nchance to provide deep zoom and interoperability for their images for their<br \/>\nusers: Mirador, and the Wellcome\u2019s Universal Viewer (<a href=\"http:\/\/showcase.iiif.io\/viewer\/mirador\/\">http:\/\/showcase.iiif.io\/viewer\/mirador\/<\/a>).<br \/>\nThese get around the problem of having to create differently sized derivatives<br \/>\nof images for different uses, and of having to publish very large images on the<br \/>\ninternet when download speeds might be slow.<\/p>\n<p><b>Digital New Zealand<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chris McDowall of Digital New Zealand explored how best to<br \/>\nmake LOD work for non-LOD people. Linked Open Data uses a lot of acronyms and<br \/>\nassumes a fairly high level of technical knowledge of systems which should not<br \/>\nbe assumed. This is a particular bugbear of mine, which is why this talk<br \/>\nresonated. Chris\u2019 advocacy of cross developer\/user meetups also chimed with my<br \/>\nown thinking: LOD will never be properly adopted if it is assumed to be the<br \/>\nprovince of \u2018techies\u2019. Developers often don\u2019t know what they are developing<br \/>\nbecause they don\u2019t understand the content or its purpose: they are not<br \/>\ncurators.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the importance of vocabulary cross-walks and the<br \/>\nneed for good communication in organisations to make services stable and<br \/>\nsustainable. Again, this chimed with my own thinking: much work needs to be<br \/>\ndone to \u2018sell\u2019 the benefits of Linked Data to sceptical senior management.<br \/>\nThese benefits might include context building around archive collections,<br \/>\ngamification of data to encourage re-use, and serendipity searches and prompts<br \/>\nwhich can aid researchers. Linked Data offers the kind of truly targeted<br \/>\nsearching in contrast to the \u2018faith based technology\u2019 of existing search<br \/>\nengines (a really memorable expression).<\/p>\n<p>He warned that the infrastructure demands of LOD should not<br \/>\nbe underestimated, particularly from researchers making a lot of simultaneous<br \/>\nqueries: he mooted a pared down type of LOD for wider adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Chris finished by highlighting a number of interesting use<br \/>\ncases of LOD in Libraries as part of the Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) project,<br \/>\na collaboration between Harvard, Cornell and Stanford (<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.duraspace.org\/pages\/viewpage.action?pageId=41354028\">https:\/\/wiki.duraspace.org\/pages\/viewpage.action?pageId=41354028<\/a>). See also<br \/>\nRichard Wallis\u2019 presentation on the benefit of LO for libraries: <a href=\"http:\/\/swib.org\/swib13\/slides\/wallis_swib13_108.pdf\">http:\/\/swib.org\/swib13\/slides\/wallis_swib13_108.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Schema.org<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Richard Wallis of OCLC explored the potential of Schema.org,<br \/>\na growing vocabulary of high level terms agreed by the main search engines to<br \/>\nmake content more searchable. Schema.org helps power search result boxes one<br \/>\nsees at the top of Google search return pages. Richard suggested the creation<br \/>\nof an extension relevant to archives to add to the one for bibliographic<br \/>\nmaterial. The advantage of schema.org is that it can easily be added to web<br \/>\npages, resulting in appreciable improvement in ranking and the possibility of<br \/>\ngenerating user-centred suggestions in search results. For an archive, this<br \/>\nmight mean a Google user searches for the papers of Winston Churchill and is<br \/>\noffered suggested other uses such as booking tickets to a talk about the<br \/>\npapers, or viewing Google maps information showing the opening times and<br \/>\nlocation of the archive.<\/p>\n<p>The group discussion centred on the potential elements (would<br \/>\nthe extension refer to thesis, research data, university systems that contain<br \/>\narchive data such as Finance and student information?), and on the need for use<br \/>\ncases and setting out potential benefits. I agreed to be part of an<br \/>\ninternational team through the W3C Consortium, to help set one up.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41.media.tumblr.com\/19fb57c83d0799f6a81e5140d2eb53d9\/tumblr_inline_ntqq0p8y1Q1sst51o_540.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>[photo: Shakespeare window at the State Library of New South Wales]<\/p>\n<p><b>Dork shorts\/Speedos \u2013<br \/>\nthese are impromptu lightning talks lasting a few minutes, which highlight a<br \/>\nproject, idea or proposal. View here: <\/b><b><\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/summit2015.lodlam.net\/about\/speedos\/\">http:\/\/summit2015.lodlam.net\/about\/speedos\/<\/a><\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Cultuurlink (<\/b><b><\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/cultuurlink.beeldengeluid.nl\/app\/#\/\">http:\/\/cultuurlink.beeldengeluid.nl\/app\/#\/<\/a><\/b><b>): Introduction by Johan Oomen<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This Dutch service facilitates the linking of different<br \/>\ncontrolled vocabularies and thesauri and helps address the problem faced by<br \/>\nmany cultural organisations \u2018which thesauri do I use?\u2019 and \u2018how do I avoid<br \/>\nreinventing the thesauri wheel?\u2019. The services allows users to upload a SKOS<br \/>\nvocabulary, link it with one of four supported vocabularies and visualise the<br \/>\nresults.<\/p>\n<p>The service helps different types of organisation to connect<br \/>\ntheir vocabularies, for example an audio-visual archive with a museum\u2019s<br \/>\ncollections. The approach also allows content from one repository to be<br \/>\nenhanced or deepened through contextual information from another. The example<br \/>\nof Vermeer\u2019s Milkmaid was cited: enhancing the discoverability of information<br \/>\non the painting held in the Rijksmuseum<br \/>\nin Amsterdam through connecting the collection data held on the local museum<br \/>\nmanagement system with DBPedia and with the Getty Art and Architecture<br \/>\nThesaurus. This sort of approach builds on the prototypes developed in the last<br \/>\nfew years to align vocabularies (and to \u2018Skosify\u2019 data \u2013 turn it into Linked<br \/>\nData) around shared Europeana initiatives (see <a href=\"http:\/\/semanticweb.cs.vu.nl\/amalgame\/\">http:\/\/semanticweb.cs.vu.nl\/amalgame\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><b>Research Data<br \/>\nServices project: Introduction by Ingrid Mason<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This is a pan-Australian research data management project<br \/>\nfocusing on the repackaging of cultural heritage data for academic re-use.<br \/>\nLinked Data will be used to describe a \u2018meta-collection\u2019 of the country\u2019s<br \/>\ncultural data, one that brings together academic users of data and curators. It<br \/>\nwill utilise the Australia-wide research data nodes for high speed retrieval (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rds.edu.au\/project-overview\">https:\/\/www.rds.edu.au\/project-overview<\/a><br \/>\nand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intersect.org.au\/\">http:\/\/www.intersect.org.au\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><b>Tim Sherratt on<br \/>\nhistorians using LOD<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This fascinating short explained how historians have been<br \/>\ncreating LOD for years \u2013 and haven\u2019t even known they were doing it \u2013<br \/>\nidentifying links and narratives in text as part of the painstaking historical<br \/>\nprocess. How can Linked Data be used to mimic and speed up this historical<br \/>\nresearch process? Tim showed a working example and a step by step guide is<br \/>\navailable: <a href=\"http:\/\/discontents.com.au\/stories-for-machines-data-for-humans\/\">http:\/\/discontents.com.au\/stories-for-machines-data-for-humans\/<\/a><br \/>\nand listen to the talk: <a href=\"http:\/\/summit2015.lodlam.net\/2015\/07\/10\/lod-book\/\">http:\/\/summit2015.lodlam.net\/2015\/07\/10\/lod-book\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Jon Voss on<br \/>\nhistorypin<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Jon explained how the popular historical mapping service,<br \/>\nhistorypin, is dealing with the problem of \u2018roundtripping\u2019 where heritage data<br \/>\nis enhanced or augmented through crowdsourcing and returned to its source. This<br \/>\nis of particular interest to Europeana, whose data might pass through many<br \/>\nhands. It highlights a potential difficulty of LOD: validating the authenticity<br \/>\nand quality of data that has been distributed and enriched.<\/p>\n<p><b>Chris McDowall of<br \/>\nDigital New Zealand <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Chris explained how to search across different types of data<br \/>\nsource in New Zealand, for example to match and search for people using<br \/>\nphonetic algorithms to generate sound alike suggestions and fuzzy name<br \/>\nmatching: <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalnz.github.io\/supplejack\/\">http:\/\/digitalnz.github.io\/supplejack\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Axes Project (<\/b><b><\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.axes-project.eu\/\">http:\/\/www.axes-project.eu\/<\/a><\/b><b>): Introduction from <\/b><b>Martijn Kleppe <\/b><\/p>\n<p>This 6 million Euro EU-funded project aims to make<br \/>\naudio-visual material more accessible and has been trialled with thousands of<br \/>\nhours of video footage, and expert users, from the BBC. Its purpose is to help users<br \/>\nmine vast quantities of audio-visual material in the public domain as<br \/>\naccurately and quickly as possible. The team have developed tools using open<br \/>\nsource frameworks that allow users to detect people, places, events and other<br \/>\nentities in speech and images and to annotate and refine these results. This<br \/>\nsophisticated tool set utilises face, speech and place recognition to zero-in<br \/>\non precise fragments without the need for accompanying (longhand) metadata. The<br \/>\nresults are undeniably impressive \u2013 with a speedy, clear, interface locating<br \/>\nthe parts of each video with filtering and similarity options. The main use for<br \/>\nthe toolset to date is with film studies and journalism students but it<br \/>\nunquestionably has wider application.<\/p>\n<p>The Axes website also highlights a number of interesting<br \/>\nprojects in this field. Two stand out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.axes-project.eu\/?page_id=25\">http:\/\/www.axes-project.eu\/?page_id=25<\/a>,<br \/>\nnotably Cubrik (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cubrikproject.eu\/\">http:\/\/www.cubrikproject.eu\/<\/a>),<br \/>\nanother FP 7 multinational project which mixes crowd and machine analysis to<br \/>\nrefine and improving searching of multimedia assets; and the PATHS prototype (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paths-project.eu\/\">http:\/\/www.paths-project.eu\/<\/a>) \u00a0\u2018an interactive personalised tour guide through<br \/>\nexisting digital library collections. The system will offer suggestions about<br \/>\nitems to look at and assist in their interpretation. Navigation will be based<br \/>\naround the metaphor of a path through the collection.\u2019 The project created an<br \/>\nAPI, User Interface and launched a tested exemplar with Europeana to<br \/>\ndemonstrate the potential of new discovery journeys to open access to<br \/>\nalready-digitised collections.<\/p>\n<p><b>Loom project (<\/b><b><\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/dxlab.sl.nsw.gov.au\/making-loom\/\">http:\/\/dxlab.sl.nsw.gov.au\/making-loom\/<\/a><\/b><b>): Introduction from Paula Bray of State Library of New South Wales<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The NSW State Library sought to find new ways of visualising<br \/>\ntheir collections by date and geography through their DX Labs, an experimental<br \/>\ndata laboratory similar to BL Labs, which I have worked with in the UK. One<br \/>\nvisually arresting visualisation shows the proportions of collections relevant<br \/>\nto particular geographical locations in the city of Sydney. Accompanied by<br \/>\napproving gasps from the audience, this showed an iceberg graphic superimposed<br \/>\nonto a map showing the proportion of collections about a place that had been<br \/>\ndigitised and yet to be digitised \u2013 a striking way of communicating the<br \/>\nfragility of some collections and the work still to be done to make them<br \/>\naccessible to the public.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41.media.tumblr.com\/d473aaec74f7b1efe3569b3c400c02a1\/tumblr_inline_ntqpoyON5V1sst51o_540.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><b>LODLAM challenge<\/b><\/p>\n<p>19 entries were received: <a href=\"http:\/\/summit2015.lodlam.net\/challenge\/challenge-entries\/\">http:\/\/summit2015.lodlam.net\/challenge\/challenge-entries\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Open Memory Project<\/b>. This Italian entry<br \/>\nwon the main prize. It uses Linked Data to re-connect victims of the Holocaust<br \/>\nin wartime Italy. The project was thought provoking and moving and has the<br \/>\npotential to capture the public imagination.<\/li>\n<li><b>Polimedia<\/b> is a service designed to<br \/>\nanswer questions from the media and journalists by querying multi-media<br \/>\nlibraries, identifying fragments of speech. It won second prize for its<br \/>\ninnovative solution to the challenge of searching video archives.<\/li>\n<li><b>LodView goes LAM<\/b> is a new Italian<br \/>\nsoftware designed to make it easier for novices to publish data as Linked Data.<br \/>\nA visually beautiful and engaging interface makes this a joy to look at.<\/li>\n<li><b>EEXCESS<\/b> is a European project to<br \/>\naugment books and other research and teaching materials with contextual<br \/>\ninformation, and to develop sophisticated tools to measure usage. This is an<br \/>\nexciting, ambitious, project to assemble different sources using Linked Data to<br \/>\nenable a new kind of publication made up of a portfolio of assets.<\/li>\n<li><b>Preservation Planning Ontology<\/b> is a<br \/>\nproposal for using Linked Data in the planning of digital preservation by<br \/>\narchives. It has been developed by Artefactual Systems, the Canadian company<br \/>\nbehind ATOM and Archivematica software. This made the shortlist as it is a good<br \/>\nexample of a \u2018behind the scenes\u2019 management use of Linked data to make<br \/>\npreservation workflows easier.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>A selection of other<br \/>\nentries:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Public Domain City<\/b><br \/>\nextracts curious images from digitised content. This is similar to BL Labs\u2019<br \/>\nMechanical Curator, a way of mining digitised books for interesting images and<br \/>\nmaking them available to social media to improve the profile and use of a<br \/>\ncollection.<\/p>\n<p><b>Project Mosul <\/b>uses<br \/>\nLinked Data to digitally recreate damaged archaeological heritage from Iraq. A<br \/>\ngood example of using this technology to protect and recreate heritage damaged<br \/>\nin conflict and disaster.<\/p>\n<p><b>The Muninn Project<\/b><br \/>\ncombines 3D visualisations and printing using Linked Data taken from First<br \/>\nWorld War source material.<\/p>\n<p><b>LOD Stories<\/b> is a<br \/>\nway of creating story maps between different pots of data about art and<br \/>\nvisualising the results. The project is a good example of the need to make<br \/>\nLinked Data more appealing and useful, in this case by building \u2018family trees\u2019<br \/>\nof information about subjects to create picture narratives.<\/p>\n<p><b>Get your coins out of<br \/>\nyour pocket<\/b> is a Linked Data engine about Roman coinage and the stories it<br \/>\nhas to tell \u2013 geographically and temporally. The project uses nodegoat as an<br \/>\nengine for volunteers to map useful information: <a href=\"http:\/\/nodegoat.net\/\">http:\/\/nodegoat.net\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Graphity <\/b>is a<br \/>\nDanish project to improve access to historical Danish digitised newspapers and<br \/>\nenhancing with maps and other content using Linked Data.<\/p>\n<p><b>Dutch Ships and<br \/>\nSailors<\/b> brings together multiple historical data sources and uses Linked<br \/>\nData to make them searchable.<\/p>\n<p><b>Corbicula<\/b> is a way<br \/>\nof automating the extraction of data from collection management systems and<br \/>\npublishing it as Linked Data.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41.media.tumblr.com\/9457c1091d7879a73ca7b846e3d92f3d\/tumblr_inline_ntqpymVGRM1sst51o_540.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>[photo: delegates at the summit]<\/p>\n<p><b>Day two sessions<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Day two sessions focused on the future. A key session led by<br \/>\nRichard Wallis explained how Google is moving from a page ranking approach to a<br \/>\ntriple confidence assertion approach to generating search results. The way in<br \/>\nwhich Google generates its results will therefore move closer to the LOD method<br \/>\nof attributing significance to results.<\/p>\n<p><b>Highlights<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Need for a vendor manifesto to encourage systems<br \/>\nvendors such as Ex Libris, to build LOD into their systems (Corey Harper of New<br \/>\nYork University proposed this and is working closely with Ex Libris to bring<br \/>\nthis about)<\/li>\n<li>Depositing APIs\/documentation for maximum re-use<br \/>\n(APIs are often a weak link \u2013 adoption of LOD won\u2019t happen if services break or<br \/>\nare unreliable)<\/li>\n<li>Uses identified (mining digitised newspaper<br \/>\narchives was cited)<\/li>\n<li>Potential piggy-backing from Big Pharma<br \/>\ninvestment in Big Data (massive investment by drugs companies to crunch huge<br \/>\nquantities of data \u2013 how far can the heritage sector utilise even a fraction of<br \/>\nthat?)<\/li>\n<li>Need to validate LOD: the quality issue \u2013 need<br \/>\nfor an assertion testing service (LOD won\u2019t be used if its quality is<br \/>\nquestionable. Do curators (traditional guardians of quality) manage this?)<\/li>\n<li>Training in Linked Data needs to be addressed<\/li>\n<li>Need to encourage fundraising and make LO<br \/>\nsustainable: what are we going to do with LOD in the next ten years? (Will the<br \/>\ntest of the success of Linked Open Data be if the term drops out of use when we<br \/>\nare all doing it without noticing? Will 5 Star Linked Data be realised? <a href=\"http:\/\/5stardata.info\/\">http:\/\/5stardata.info\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b> Summary<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There were several key learning points from this conference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The divide between technical experts and policy<br \/>\nand decision makers remains significant: more work is needed to provide use<br \/>\ncases and examples of improved efficiencies or innovative public engagement<br \/>\nopportunities that the technology provides<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The re-use and publication of Linked Data is<br \/>\nbecoming important and this brings challenges in terms of IPR, reliability of<br \/>\nAPIs and quality of data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy to use tools and widgets will help spread<br \/>\nits use; avoiding complicated and unsustainable technical solutions that depend<br \/>\non project funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Working with vendors to incorporate Linked Data<br \/>\ntools in library and archive systems will speed its adoption<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Linked Data community ought to work towards<br \/>\nthe day Linked Data is business as usual and the terms goes out of use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Geoff Browell, Head of Archives Services I was fortunate to attend the biennial Linked Open Data, Libraries, Archives, Museums summit in early July in Sydney, Australia. I played a very small role in setting it up, as a member of the organising committee. The conference is an opportunity for archivists, librarians, museum curators &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2015\/09\/01\/linking-data-in-sydney\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linking Data in Sydney&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,238,237],"tags":[7,243,158,155,156,242,157],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes","category-kclca","category-lhcma","tag-archives","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-libraries","tag-linked-data","tag-lodlam","tag-professional","tag-sydney","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}