The LIBRIS Upgrade – Details, Links and Interfaces
Presenters: Niklas Lindström, Lina Westerling
About the presenters:
- Niklas Lindström – has worked with web, data and system technologies for 15 years, including consulting, open source projects and W3C standardization work (on RDFa 1.1 and JSON-LD). His experience ranges from user interface development to systems engineering and maintenance, via many kinds of data processing. He has an educational background in computer science, with a dash of philosophy and art.
- Lina Westerling – as a UX (user experience) designer, Lina is involved in the complete design process from gathering requirements to detailing the UI design. Prior to entering the world of libraries she consulted in enterprise search, a close relative to discovery systems. Her educational background is multi-disciplinary, with degrees in cognitive science and interaction design.
Intended audience: Cataloguing and Format Experts, Data Managers, System Developers and Owners
Abstract: Starting in earnest in 2012, The Swedish National Library (Kungliga Biblioteket – KB) begun the development of a new infrastructure and system, based at its core on Linked Data. It directly employs the linked entity description model represented by RDF, and has the capacity to mesh with other linked data on the web, through minimal engineering efforts.
While KB has been publishing linked library data since 2008, the internal system has continued to be based on MARC, used in everything from cataloguing to various internal and external data flows. We are now replacing this legacy fundament entirely with an RDF-based structure. The infrastructure is based on adaptable dataset management components, fully navigable as linked data through a graph store, and using customizable indexes for search (filtering, sorting and faceting). Everything is built on open source libraries and components, and the system itself is available as open source.
Upon this system, a modern, web based cataloguing tool has been developed, which is capable of editing data described using RDF-based vocabularies (such as Dublin Core, FOAF, BIBO, Schema.org and BibFrame), and integrating with collections of resource descriptions on the web, such as Library of Congress data (e.g. LCSH), The Open Metadata Registry, Dewey.info, GeoNames and DBPedia.
In this presentation, we will give you a walk-through of the features and capabilities of this system, showing the user interface and sharing the user stories which has driven its design. We will also look into the data fundament, and explain the mechanisms for mapping from MARC to RDF (including the benefits of JSON-LD as an instrument). We will show how this structure can be reverted into MARC, in order to support existing legacy systems. Finally, we will take a look at the new kinds of possibilities that a system of linked data enables, including federated integration with “wild” linked data on the (semantic) web (through means ranging from basic HTTP to SPARQL).
ELAG 2014 Lingering Gold 