Metadata is a plural noun Karen Coyle NETSL

Metadata is a plural noun Karen Coyle NETSL, 2009

Metadata about data

Metadata constructed constructive actionable

metadata real planet longitude and latitude

“turn left at. . . ” navigation

red line, green line subway navigation

the human genome

meta. DATA

Actionable

Interact(ionable)

where you need it

metadata are for use with apologies to Ranganathan

library metadata John Willis Clare. The care of books. 1901

typed, then printed From: OCLC. . /cataloging/cards/

Machine-readable catalog. loc. gov

online catalog. loc. gov

records in a database/catalog

think outside the (catalog) box think about our data as data, not as catalog entries. think about our data interacting with other data on the web.

World. Cat Identities

World. Cat Identities

FRBR user tasks A man walks up to a library catalog…. Obtain Select Identify Find

http: //www. lib. umn. edu/about/mellon/

semantic web

link Web links between documents One meaning: “link”

blah Moby Dick blah whales blah Herman Melville blah New Bedford, Massachusetts blah web pages are mostly text blah Moby Dick blah whales blah Herman Melville blah New Bedford, Massachusetts blah

blah Moby Dick blah whales blah Herman Melville blah New Bedford, Massachusetts blah web pages are mostly text topic author book blah Moby Dick blah whales blah Herman Melville blah New Bedford, Massachusetts blah geo loc

Person: Herman Melville link Book: Moby Dick identify your entities give them names, identifiers

Person: Herman Melville is author of Book: Moby Dick make links meaningful

Person: Herman Melville connect on the web is publisher of is author of Book: Moby Dick Company: is about Random House Book Topic: Whales & Whaling is publisher of Book is about Book

meanwhile linked open data http: //linkeddata. org

Machine-readable catalog. loc. gov

family name date birth Darwin, Charles, 1809 -1882 fore name date death Library data as LOD what important world events happened during his lifetime? What could you do with it? who was writing on science at the same time? show me a map of important places in his life

From library catalog to LOD openlibrary. org Find earliest publication date; feed to copyright analysis program

what is the earliest publication date for a book with the title Moby Dick? http: //pipes. yahoo. com/pipes/pipe. info? _id= 216 efa 8 c 3 b 04764 ca 77 ad 181 b 1 cc 66 e 4 tag: openlibrary

what is the earliest publication date for a book with the title Moby Dick? pipes. yahoo. com

Wikipedia Vladimir Nabokov

From library catalog to LOD FRBR leads the way

What can we do? 1. Make our data harvestable so that others can use it 2. Identify our data structures and vocabularies for use on the web

roles languages places resource types names subjects vocabularies easy to ‘webify’

MARC vocabularies id. loc. gov

RDA vocabularies metadataregistry. org

RDA vocabularies metadataregistry. org

RDA Groups of Instruments Plucked instruments RDA vocabularies metadataregistry. org

registry of RDA data elements rdaonline. org

What can we do? 1. Make our data harvestable so that others can use it 2. Identify our data structures and vocabularies for use on the web 3. Make our data more ‘data-like’ 1. 4. Make our systems more ‘cloud-like’

metadata are a growing organism with MORE apologies to Ranganathan

Thank you kcoyle@kcoyle. net http: //www. kcoyle. net