Abstract
This article intends to review the underlying concepts and technologies of the Semantic Web and the potential they provide for metadata management covering bibliographic resources. To get closer to a semantic web data space, different libraries are adhering to the initiatives making their traditional Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) operational on the web through SKOS techniques, as well as releasing bibliographic data under open licenses (open bibliographic data) and publishing it with Linked Data (LD) mechanisms. LD meaningful semantic connections create the Web of Data, a global database representing the first practical step to the Semantic Web. Here interoperable data can be processed independently of application, platform or domain, providing rich retrieval results produced by powerful query languages. From a library perspective, a problem statement is a global promotion within the Library community of understanding and of adoption of Linked Open Data (LOD), of LODe-BD recommendations, as well as releasing bibliographic data as Linked Library Data (LLD). In this way, different bibliographic datasets could become full members of the Semantic Web making interoperable different knowledge datasets of heterogeneous web communities.
Highlights
This article intends to review the underlying concepts and technologies of the Semantic Web and the potential they provide for metadata management covering bibliographic resources
The first step towards a web, that contains bibliographic data whose semantics is interpretable by machines, is surely to adopt an open standard format such as RDF that can be used to collect and categorize information scattered in the digital environment
163 IFLA (Namespace Technical Group reposting to Committe on Standards); JSC for Development of RDA (DCMI/ RDA Task Group, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative); DCMI Bibliographic Metadata Task Group (DCMI Vocabulary Management Community)
Summary
Trust, And Security by T.Welsh, Editor, Web Services Strategies, available from Cutter Consortium’s bookstore, 23 Sept. 2003, . To show how data could be linked by means of common ontologies, here will be worth mentioning a cross-institutional project called “ResearchSpace”105 carried out by the British Museum This project aims at harmonizing data provided by different cultural organizations, using RDF to set up mechanisms for the semantic search106. Knowledge Information Systems Group, Austria, EPrints 3.2.0 ; In this new, and certainly not exhaustive, scenario of semantic exposure of bibliographic data on the web, it is important that more and more information providers (included cultural, scientific and administrative bodies) make their data available in formats adaptable to the Semantic Web, replicating current experiences and proposing new projects, tools and use cases. As a first step enabling BD to move towards LOD, the Recommendations offer the descriptive guide about necessary properties of bibliographic metadata, arranging them in nine groups (Table I)
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