Info Org Book Club:Talk

Feel free to use this space to discuss readings, prepare for book club meetings, ask questions, propose topics for upcoming meetings, etc.

Brief glossary of some common linked data-related terms

• BIBFRAME – Bibliographic Framework Initiative – data model for bibliographic description – meant to be linked data-compatible
• FOAF – Friend of a Friend – a vocabulary (technically an ontology) to describe people and their relationships to other people
• HTTP – Hypertext Transfer Protocol – main standard for transferring hypertext (structured text with links) on the internet
• LOD – Linked Open Data – information (data!) represented in a way that shows its relationships and connections with other data, made openly available on the web
• OWL – Web Ontology Language – an ontology standard for creating vocabularies to represent entities and relationships
• RDF – Resource Description Framework – a data modeling standard – one of the most common ways of packaging linked data
• SKOS – Simple Knowledge Organization System – standard for developing structured vocabularies/linked data
• SPARQL – SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language – database query language designed to retrieve information stored in RDF format
• URI – Uniform Resource Identifier – set of characters used to represent a resource – should be stable & persistent
• URL – Uniform Resource Locator – a form of URI that automatically navigates to the resource’s location on a network
• W3C – World Wide Web Consortium – an international community that develops and maintains web-related standards

Projects and/or tools mentioned at the August 13th meeting (Linked Data 1)

• Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue
• Material Evidence in Incunabula
• The Atlas of Early Printing
• NYPL Archives Beta Tools - especially "Collection as Network"
• Six Degrees of Francis Bacon (beta)
• BIBFRAME
• VIAF

Possible topics for future sessions

Please feel free to add to this list, or indicate enthusiasm or disinterest.

• MARC history (how the catalog became the catalog)
• Catalog data manipulation (MARCEdit, OpenRefine, etc)
• Big data - uses, misuses, methodology and more
• Wiki systems and history
• Markup languages (HTML, XML, Wiki markup, TEI, etc etc) & their purposes
• Copyright & licensing issues
• Digital archiving (Archive-It, Internet Archive, database management?)