2012 Linkfest Preconference

Description

We've had talks and sessions galore about Linked Data at code4lib in past years. Let's focus on linking. Bring data you want to publish and link to or link from and your ideas about new ways we can push data linking into being part of our regular approach to how we put our libraries' content and services on the web. At the start of the session we'll run a quick poll to see who wants to link to what and how, and we'll pair or group up and get to work from there. May a kajillion links bloom!

If you need an "intro to linked data" we can prep a good list of readings/talks to review before you come. But please come ready to link! Organizer type person: Dan Chudnov, GWU Libraries, @dchud or dchud at gwu edu

Potential projects

• charper - working with tagasauris
• tim shearer - reconciling against geonames
• edsu - unglue.it
• dchud - personal bibliographic wotsit
• helrond - reconciling lists of names from EAD to amplify existing description (Daily Worker - Communist Party of USA photos - finding aid is big; be patient...)
• declan
• jpstroop - linking data, adding URIs etc to EAD
• jaron (@ronallo) Jason Ronallo - making microdata more like linked data

Success stories (or at least interesting stories)

• jobs.code4lib.org use of Freebase Suggest enables a view like all Ruby jobs
• Chronicling America use of sitemaps and delivery of OCR data, for example take a look at the source code of this newspaper page resource
• Facebook Graph API JSON representations of resources w/ typed links to other JSON representations of Linked Data = Linked Data

Resources

• W3C RDF Tools page
• DLIB article; see section on Linking Authorities if that interests you: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november10/byrne/11byrne.html
• DLF Fall Forum 2011 Linked Data Hands-on How-to includes tutorials and sample data sets
• Free Your Metadata
• Tagasaurius