Article
Digital Version
Dewey linked data : Making connections with old friends and new acquaintances
177-200 p.
- This paper explores the history, uses cases, and future plans associated with availability of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system as linked data. Parts of DDC system have been available as linked data since 2009. Initial efforts included the DDC Summaries in eleven languages exposed as linked data in dewey.info. In 2010, the content of dewey.info was further extended by the addition of assignable numbers and captions from the Abridged Edition 14 data files in English, Italian, and Vietnamese. During 2012, we will add assignable numbers and captions from the latest full edition database, DDC 23.
- In addition to the "old friends" of different Dewey language versions, institutions such as the British Library and Deutsche Nationalbibliothek have made use of Dewey linked data in bibliographic records and authority files, and AGROVOC has linked to our data at a general level. We expect to extend our linked data network shortly to "new acquaintances" such as GeoNames, ISO 639-3 language codes, and Mathematics Subject Classification. In particular, the paper examines the linking process to GeoNames as an example of cross-domain vocabulary alignment. In addition to linking plans, the paper reports on use cases that facilitate machine-assisted categorization and support discovery in the semantic web environment. [Publisher's Text].
-
Information
DOI: 10.4403/jlis.it-5467
ISSN: 2038-1026
KEYWORDS
- DDC, Dewey linked data, Dewey Decimal Classification
-
In this issue
- Opening and welcome
- Global interoperability and linked data in libraries : ICCU international committment
- Introduction to the Seminar Global interoperability and linked data in libraries
- Beyond the Pillars of Hercules : Linked data and cultural heritage
- Linked Data : an Evolution
- Designing data for the open world of the web.
- Linked data : a new alphabet for the semantic web.
- Linked (open) data at web scale : research, social and engineering challenges in the digital humanities
- FRBR Review Group initiatives and the world of linked data
- ISBD adaptation to semantic web of bibliographic data in linked data
- RDA and the Semantic Web, Linked Data Environment
- Linked and open data : RDA and bibliographic control
- LC Classification as linked data
- Dewey linked data : Making connections with old friends and new acquaintances
- Linked Heritage Experience in Linking Heritage Information
- The Nuovo soggettario as a service for the linked data world
- Annotation schema for legal doctrine : a case study on DoGi database
- Semantic technologies and linked data for the Italian PA : the case of data :cnr :it.
- OpLiDaF : Open Linked Data Framework : una piattaforma per la creazione e la pubblicazione di linked data
- Commercial and cultural sectors : potential for data collaboration?
- Bibliographic standards and Linked Data : towards a collaboration between cultural and commercial sectors
- Linked open data on its way into next generation library management and discovery solutions
- Linked Heritage : a collaborative terminology management platform for a network of multilingual thesauri and controlled vocabularies
- DataCite and linked data
- Trust and persistence for Internet resources
- Linking Library Metadata to the Web : the German Experiences
- Linked open data for new library services : the example of data .bnf.fr.
- Cataloguing in the open : the disintegration and distribution of the record
- Metadata framework and application profiles in the global structure of catalogs and digitization projects of the Vatican Library
- Open Data in the Italian Government : the experience of the Town of Florence
- Legal interoperability : making Open Government Data compatible with businesses and communities
