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** [http://directory.talis.com/ui/ Talis Directory]
 
** [http://directory.talis.com/ui/ Talis Directory]
 
** [http://www.librarything.com/local LibraryThing Local]
 
** [http://www.librarything.com/local LibraryThing Local]
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** [http://irspy.indexdata.com/ IRSpy]: Indexdata Z39.50 Target Directory
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** [http://www.ockham.org/registry.php OCKHAM Digital Library Services Registry]
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** [http://archives.eprints.org Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)]
 
* Germany
 
* Germany
 
** [http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=1.2/ ISIL- und Sigelverzeichnis]: German ISIL registry
 
** [http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=1.2/ ISIL- und Sigelverzeichnis]: German ISIL registry
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** [http://www.bock-net.de/joeb/ Jahrbuch der Öffentlichen Bibliotheken]: Another German printed registry
 
** [http://www.bock-net.de/joeb/ Jahrbuch der Öffentlichen Bibliotheken]: Another German printed registry
 
** [http://webis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ WEBIS]: special collections of the distributed German National Library
 
** [http://webis.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ WEBIS]: special collections of the distributed German National Library
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Other related projects:
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* [http://www.gils.net/ Global Information Locator Service (GILS)]
  
 
== Other linked data sources with library information ==
 
== Other linked data sources with library information ==
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** [http://www.w3.org/2008/05/skos SKOS]
 
** [http://www.w3.org/2008/05/skos SKOS]
 
** [http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard vCard]
 
** [http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard vCard]
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** [http://www.talis.com/tdn/platform/reference/schemas/address Talis Address Schema]
 
 
** [http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/ Basic Geo (WGS84 lat/long) Vocabulary]
 
** [http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/ Basic Geo (WGS84 lat/long) Vocabulary]
 
** [http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core FRBR]
 
** [http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core FRBR]
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** [http://schemas.talis.com/2005/library/schema Talis Library Schema]
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** [http://www.talis.com/tdn/platform/reference/schemas/address Talis Address Schema]
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** [http://schemas.talis.com/2005/dir/schema Talis Directory Schema]
 
** [http://bibliontology.com/ Bibliographic Ontology (Bibo)]: OWL Ontology
 
** [http://bibliontology.com/ Bibliographic Ontology (Bibo)]: OWL Ontology
 
** [http://www.cidoc-crm.org/ CIDOC-CRM]
 
** [http://www.cidoc-crm.org/ CIDOC-CRM]
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** [http://purl.org/goodrelations/ GoodRelations]: includes for instance OpeningHoursSpecification and [http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/smguide/gr.html recognizable to Yahoo!'s SearchMonkey]
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** [http://vocab.org/aiiso/schema Academic Institution Internal Structure Ontology (AIISO)]: Includes foaf:Organization subclasses
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** [http://purl.org/NET/book/vocab RDF Book Vocabulary]
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** ...
 
** ...
 
* Other formats
 
* Other formats
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** [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=library OpenStreemap library tags]
 
** [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=library OpenStreemap library tags]
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Library Wikipedia library template]: Base of DBPedia, different in each language edition
 
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Library Wikipedia library template]: Base of DBPedia, different in each language edition
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** [http://www.niso.org/workrooms/i2 I2 (Institutional Identifiers)]: NISO working group
 
** ...
 
** ...

Revision as of 12:58, 9 December 2009

Library Ontology Draft

Editor: Jakob Voß (but everybody feel free to modify this page, it's a wiki!)

The Library Ontology is a proposed RDFS/OWL ontology to describe information about libraries in RDF. Up to now it is drafted in an open planning phase. There are many formats and some ontologies for bibliographic data, addresses, and places which could be reused (instead of reinventing the wheel). Information about libraries is collected in several library registries which could be mapped to the Library Ontology.

No background needed but fluent in RDF/Turtle syntax? Then goto Library Ontology Concepts!

Purpose

The purpose of the Library Ontology can best be described by examples and use cases. For example how do you state and express (in RDF) ...

  • that something is a library?
  • that some library building belongs to a given library institution?
  • opening times in RDF?
  • the URL of the OPAC of a library?
  • that a given collection is held by one library?
  • that a given collection is owned by someone?
  • the type of a library (if "type" is a usefull concept at all)?
  • ...

please add more use-cases when you stumble upon!

Some information can be expressed by existing Ontologies like vCard, but surely there are concepts and relationships which only make sense in context of libraries. The Library Ontology should define this RDFS/OWL classes and properties and collect existing classes and properties to be used for the description of libraries.

Concepts

The basic concepts of the Library Ontology are collected at the page Library Ontology Concepts.

Existing library registries

The International ISIL Agency maintains a registry of library registries which act as local ISIL authorities.

Other related projects:

Other linked data sources with library information

  • libris.kb.se
  • dbpedia
  • ...

Relevant formats and models

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