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From Records to a Web of Library Data – Pt3 Beacons of Availability

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Richard Wallis

As is often the way, you start a post without realising that it is part of a series of posts – as with the first in this series. That one – Entification, the following one – Hubs of Authority and … More…

Posted in Data Publishing, Google, Libraries, Linked Data, schema.org, Web | Tagged Data, Entities, Libraries, Linked Data, RDF | 2 Comments

Forming Consensus on Schema.org for Libraries and More

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Richard Wallis

Back in September I formed a W3C Group – Schema Bib Extend. To quote an old friend of mine “Why did you go and do that then?” Well, as I have mentioned before Schema.org has become a bit of a … More…

Posted in Data Publishing, Libraries, Linked Data, OCLC, Open Data, schema.org | Tagged Libraries, Linked Data, OCLC, Open Data, schema.org | 3 Comments

Get Yourself a Linked Data Piece of WorldCat to Play With

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Richard Wallis

You may remember my frustration a couple of months ago, at being in the air when OCLC announced the addition of Schema.org marked up Linked Data to all resources in WorldCat.org. Those of you who attended the OCLC Linked Data Round Table at … More…

Posted in Data Publishing, Libraries, Licensing, Linked Data, OCLC, Open Data, schema.org | Tagged Libraries, Licensing, Linked Data, OCLC, Open Data, schema.org, WorldCat | 9 Comments

OCLC WorldCat Linked Data Release – Significant In Many Ways

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Richard Wallis

Typical! Since joining OCLC as Technology Evangelist, I have been preparing myself to be one of the first to blog about the release of linked data describing the hundreds of millions of bibliographic items in WorldCat.org. So where am I … More…

Posted in Consuming Data, Data Publishing, Development, Google, Libraries, Licensing, Linked Data, OCLC, Open Data, schema.org | Tagged Linked Data, OCLC, Open Data, WorldCat | 15 Comments

Schema.org Consensus at SemTechBiz

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Richard Wallis

Day three of the Semantic Tech & Business Conference in San Francisco brought us a panel to discuss Schema.org, populated by an impressive array of names and organisations: Ivan Herman, World Wide Web Consortium Alexander Shubin, Yandex Dan Brickley, Schema.org … More…

Posted in Data Publishing, Linked Data, schema.org, Semantic Tech & Business | Tagged Linked Data, RDFa, schema.org | 4 Comments

Surfacing at Semtech San Francisco

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Richard Wallis

So where have I been? I announce that I am now working as a Technology Evangelist for the the library behemoth OCLC, and then promptly disappear. The only excuse I have for deserting my followers is that I have been … More…

Posted in Data Liberate, Data Publishing, Linked Data, schema.org, Semantic Tech & Business, Semantic Web | Tagged Linked Data, OCLC, schema.org, Semantic Search, SemTechBiz | Leave a comment

Who Will Be Mostly Right – Wikidata, Schema.org?

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Richard Wallis

Two, on the surface, totally unconnected posts – yet the the same message. Well that’s how they seem to me anyway.

Post 1 – The Problem With Wikidata from Mark Graham writing in the Atlantic. Post 2 – Danbri has moved on – should we follow? by a former colleague Phil Archer. More…

Posted in Data Publishing, Google, Linked Data, schema.org, Semantic Web, SEO, Web | Tagged Data, Linked Data, schema.org, web, WikiData | 1 Comment

Semantic Search, Discovery, and Serendipity

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Richard Wallis

An ambition for the web is to reflect and assist what we humans do in the real world. Search has only brought us part of the way. By identifying key words in web page text, and links between those pages, it makes a reasonable stab at identifying things that might be related to the keywords we enter.

As I commented recently, Semantic Search messages coming from Google indicate that they are taking significant steps towards the ambition. By harvesting Schema.org described metadata embedded in html More…

Posted in Consuming Data, Data Publishing, schema.org, Semantic Web, SEO | Tagged Data, schema.org, SEO | 2 Comments

A Data 7th Wave Approaching

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Richard Wallis

I believe Data, or more precisely changes in how we create, consume, and interact with data, has the potential to deliver a seventh wave impact. With the advent of many data associated advances, variously labelled Big Data, Social Networking, Open Data, Cloud Services, Linked Data, Microformats, Microdata, Semantic Web, Enterprise Data, it is now venturing beyond those closed systems into the wider world. It is precisely because these trends have been around for a while, and are starting to mature and influence each other, that they are building to form something really significant. More…