Data. The final frontier.
In my June 2020 post in this series, “Infrastructure for heritage institutions โ change of course ” , I said: “The results of both Data Licences and the Data Quality projects (Object PIDโs, Controlled Vocabularies, Metadata Set) will go into the new Data Publication project, which will be undertaken […]
Read moreIn my work at the Library of the University of Amsterdam I am currently taking a step forward by actually taking a step back from a number of forefront activities in discovery, linked open data and integrated research information towards a more hidden, but also more fundamental enterprise […]
Read moreIFLA 2014 Annual World Library and Information Congress Lyon – Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge After attending the IFLA 2014 Library Linked Data Satellite Meeting in Paris I travelled to Lyon for the first three days (August 17-19) of the IFLA 2014 Annual World Library and Information […]
Read moreStruggling towards usable linked data services at SWIB13 Paraphrasing some of the challenges proposed by keynote speaker Dorothea Salo, the unofficial theme of the SWIB13 conference in Hamburg might be described as โNo more ontologies, we want out of the box linked data tools!โ. This sounds like we […]
Read moreUsing discovery tools for presenting integrated information There has been a lot of discussion in recent years about library discovery tools. Basically, a library discovery tool provides a centrally maintained shared scholarly material metadata index, a system for searching and an option for adding a local metadata index. […]
Read moreConnecting real books, metadata and people I spent one day in the stacks of the off-site central storage facility of the Library of the University of Amsterdam as one of the volunteers helping the library perform a huge stock control operation which will take years. Goal of this […]
Read moreThe future of the academic library as a data services hub Is there a future for libraries, or more specifically: is there a future for academic libraries? This has been the topic of lots of articles, blog posts, books and conferences. See for instance Aaron Tayโs recent post […]
Read more2011 has in a sense been the year of library linked data. Not that libraries of all kinds are now publishing and consuming linked data in great numbers. No. But we have witnessed the publication of the final report of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group, the […]
Read moreShifting focus from information carriers back to information This blog post is based on a presentation I did at Datasalon 6 in Brussels, January 21, 2011. ย Library catalogues have traditionally been used to describe and register books and journals and other physical objects that together constitute the […]
Read moreThe challenges of generating linked data from legacy databases ย Some time ago I wrote a blog post about the linked data proof of concept project I am involved in, connecting bibliographic metadata from the OPAC of the Library of the University of Amsterdam with the theatre performances […]
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