Interoperability and Standards : Thoughts on (bibliographic) Data Exchange after the 20th Century

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Interoperability and Standards :
Thoughts on (bibliographic) Data
Exchange after the 20th Century
Lars G. Svensson

• Interoperability with whom?
• Should we really exchange
data?
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How much interoperability do we
need?
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DNB OCLCNB-NOBnF
FotovonDocSearls(CCBY):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/5500714140/
Interoperability after the 20th
century must be about breaking the
siloes: but which ones?

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MARC
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IFLA-
LRM
BIB-
FRAME
UNI
MARC
Interoperability after the 20th
century must be about breaking the
siloes: but which ones?

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Historically, we can look at this from
two angles:
1. One monolithic
description for each
resource
2. Reusable information
put into authority files
3. Locally interlinked
data
1. Local cataloguing only
2. Shared cataloguing with
cataloguing cards
3. Machine-readable data sent
out on tapes
4. Machine-readable data
transported over ftp/http

Those two trends are converging
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LinkingOpenDataclouddiagram,byRichardCyganiakandAnjaJentzsch.http://lod-cloud.net/

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Linked Data is about identifiable
things and their relations
KORG
Oslo
Norway
Takes place in
Part of
Takes place in

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Libraries already create linked data
on the web
dnb:820436909
“Hans Henny
Jahnn und Henrik
Ibsen […]”@de
gnd:120420759
“Knut
Brynhildsvoll”
gnd:4256
031-7
“Peer Gynt”@no
gnd:4327
525-4
“Perrudja”@de
“Bonn: Bouvier,
1982”@de
“1982”

There is potential to decompose the
core bibliographic description, too
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But is Linked Data relevant for
libraries at all and – if so – why?
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01041cam 2200265 a 4500
001 ###89048230
003 DLC
005 19911106082810.9
008 891101s1990 maua j 001 0 eng
010 ## $a ###89048230
020 ## $a 0316107514 :
$c $12.95
020 ## $a 0316107506 (pbk.) :
$c $5.95 ($6.95 Can.)
040 ## $a DLC
$c DLC
$d DLC
050 00 $a GV943.25
$b .B74 1990
082 00 $a 796.334/2
$2 20
100 1# $a Brenner, Richard J.,
$d 1941-
245 10 $a Make the team.
$p Soccer :
$b a heads up guide to super soccer! /
$c Richard J. Brenner.
246 30 $a Heads up guide to super soccer
250 ## $a 1st ed.
260 ## $a Boston :
$b Little, Brown,
$c c1990.
300 ## $a 127 p. :
$b ill. ;
$c 19 cm.
500 ## $a "A Sports illustrated for kids book."
520 ## $a Instructions for improving soccer skills. Discusses dribbling, heading, playmaking, defense,
conditioning, mental attitude, how to handle problems with coaches, parents, and other players, and the history
of soccer.
650 #0 $a Soccer
$v Juvenile literature.
650 #1 $a Soccer.

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The honourable mention goes to the
Swedish National Library
PicturebyKungl.biblioteket:http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4143/4815026952_076a4eb616_z.jpg

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How far can you (sensibly)
deconstruct a bibliographic record?
nb-urn:no-
nb_digibok_201
5091506101
“Hundreåringen som klatret
ut gjennom vinduet og
forsvant”@no
“Oslo”@no
“Piratforlaget“@no
“978-82-8143-286-4”
“2010”^^
xsd:gYear

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As an answer to that question, I
developed two working hypotheses
1. In order to make sense of the information in
one of the LRM entities Work, Expression,
Manifestation and Item, the data from the
corresponding more abstract entities is
necessary
2. The more abstract the entity, the larger its
use as a handle for popular discourse

The most “abstract” of those entities is
the “Work”
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Beethovens fifth
Jonasson’s “Hundraåringen”
The Gospel of St. John
Voltaire’s “Candide”

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Hundra-
åringen
(Work)
Hundra-
åringen
(Expr, sv)
Hundra-
åringen
(2009)
Der
hundert-
jährige
(Expr, de)
Jonas
Jonasson
Der
hundert-
jährige
(2011)
Hundre-
åringen
(Expr, no)
Wibke
Kuhn
Elisabeth
Bjørnson
Hundre-
åringen
(2010)

Hundre-
åringen
(2010)
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Hundra-
åringen
(Work)
Hundra-
åringen
(Expr, sv)
Hundra-
åringen
(2009)
Der
hundert-
jährige
(Expr, de)
Hundre-
åringen
(Expr, no)
Hc.01 /
DDC22:
839.73
DDC23:
839.738
Schweden, Mann,
Greisenalter, Altenheim,
Flucht, Abenteuer,
Belletr. Darstellung
DDC-SG:839, B
Hundra-
åringen
(2009)
Der
hundert-
jährige
(2011)
svensk, litteratur,
komedie, alderdom,
1900-tallet
DDC: 839.7, 839.73
UDK: 839.7, 82

Altenheim Mann
Hommes
MenOld age
homes
Maisons
de
Retraite
Hundre-
åringen
(2010)
Hundra-
åringen
(Work)
Hundra-
åringen
(Expr, sv)
Hundra-
åringen
(2009)
Der
hundert-
jährige
(Expr, de)
Hundre-
åringen
(Expr, no)
Hc.01 /
DDC22:
839.73
DDC23:
839.738
Schweden, Mann,
Greisenalter, Altenheim,
Flucht, Abenteuer,
Belletr. Darstellung
DDC-SG:839, B
Hundra-
åringen
(2009)
Der
hundert-
jährige
(2011)
svensk, litteratur,
komedie, alderdom,
1900-tallet
DDC: 839.7, 839.73
UDK: 839.7, 82

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One important point for interoperability
is the use of standards (but which ones?)
GraphicborrowedfromReinholdHeuvelmann
= Conceptual Data Model
= Data View

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So where does all this take us?
PhotobyNicoKaiser(CC-BY):http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicokaiser/4667377944/sizes/z/in/photostream/

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Interoperability doesn´t have to be
perfect, only good enough for its purpose
Your data fits
here!
My data
fits here!
My data doesn‘t fit here
(and I don‘t care!)

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How much interoperability do we
need?
Enough

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Exactly how much “enough” is
depends on your partner
Search
engine
Library
Archive
Museum
Library

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In order to achieve interoperability between
libraries, the communities have to talk!
My dad‘s
model is
better than
your dad‘s!
Picture provided by e r j k p r u n c z y k (CC BY-SA): https://www.flickr.com/photos/24842486@N07/6162798898/ Picture by Pascal (CC BY): https://www.flickr.com/photos/pasukaru76/12144956203/
Who cares
about your
model,
anyway?

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Callimachos catalogued for
Alexandria; today we catalogue for
the World Wide Web
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Tim_Berners-Lee_CP_2_head_crop.jpg
PhotobyMaryHarrsch(CCBY-NC-SA)http://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/2522112120/

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Sharing is good. Let’s make it easy!
PhotobyBeatriceMurch(CCBY-SA):http://flickr.com/photos/blmurch/465623933/

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Contact Information:
Lars G. Svensson
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
l.svensson@dnb.de
http://www.slideshare.net/larsgsvensson

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