Libraries and the semantic web

On Sunday early in the morning at 8:30 for me the most anticipated professional session got started: “Libraries and the semantic web”. Organized by the Information Technology, Cataloguing, Classification and Indexing with Knowledge Management sections it featured the keynote speaker Richard Wallis from Talis and many more semantic web experts.

• Keynote speaker: RICHARD WALLIS (TALIS)
  • blogpost
  • “The Semantic Web and Libraries – A Linked Data Journey“
• Initiatives to make standard library metadata models and structures available to the Semantic Web
  GORDON DUNSIRE (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom) and MIRNA WILLER (University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia)
  • video
• The Europeana data model
  MARTIN DOERR (Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (Crete, Greece), STEFAN GRADMANN ( Library and Information Science, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany), STEFFEN HENNICKE (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany), ANTOINE ISAAC (Europeana, The Hague, Netherlands), CARLO MEGHINI (Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione Pisa, Italy) and HERBERT VAN DE SOMPEL (Research Library, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA)
• Linked data for libraries
  JAN HANNEMANN and JÜRGEN KETT (German National Library, Frankfurt, Germany)
• Step one: blow up the silo! – Open bibliographic data, the first step towards Linked Open Data
  PATRICK DANOWSKI (Scientific Information Service, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • “Step 1: Blow of the Silo!“
  • video
• Porting library vocabularies to the Semantic Web, and back. A win-win round trip
  BERNARD VATANT (Mondeca, Paris, France)
  • video
• CONTENTUS – towards semantic multi-media libraries
  JAN NANDZIK (Acosta Consult, Germany), ANDREAS HEß and JAN HANNEMANN (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Germany), NICOLAS FLORES-HERR and KLAUS BOSSERT (Acosta Consult, Germany)

RICHARD WALLIS presents the keynote "The Semantic Web and Libraries - A Linked Data Journey"

STEFFEN HENNICKE presents "The Europeana data model"

JAN HANNEMANN presents "Linked data for libraries"

GORDON DUNSIRE, RICHARD WALLIS, STEFFEN HENNICKE, JAN HANNEMANN at the Information Technology, Cataloguing, Classification and Indexing with Knowledge Management session "Libraries and the semantic web" at IFLA2010 in Gothenburg.

PATRICK DANOWSKI presents "Step one: blow up the silo!

BERNARD VATANT presents "Porting library vocabularies to the Semantic Web, and back. A win-win round trip"

ANDREAS HEß presents "CONTENTUS - towards semantic multi-media libraries"

PATRICK DANOWSKI, ANDREAS HEß, BERNARD VATANT at the Information Technology, Cataloguing, Classification and Indexing with Knowledge Management session "Libraries and the semantic web" at IFLA2010 in Gothenburg.

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