Below are some articles I wrote for Catalogue & Index, the periodical of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG). They are all now freely available as PDFs in UCL’s repository. The first three were written following CIG”s Linked Data:…
RLUK/European Library linked data sample
RLUK and the European Library (of which the RLUK is now a member) have just released 17 million records as linked open data. They have released three sets (via Mike Mertens), for which links to the RDF turtle versions are…
Bookmarklet for searching catalogues from Wikipedia
I have come up with two bookmarklets that allow you to search for an author’s works in a library catalogue from the author’s Wikipedia page in one click. A bookmarklet is a browser bookmark that does something with the page…
One record in lots of data formats
For a Dev8d session I did with Owen Stephens in February I presented data for a single book and followed how it had changed as standards changed, trying above to explain to non-cataloguers why catalogue records look and work the…
Lodopac example searches
Yay, my entry for the Discovery & DevCSI Developers Competition– Lodopac– was awarded a commendation for its use of the Cambridge University Library (CUL) dataset. During the judging I was asked for searches which were known to work well- the…
Sparql recipes for bibliographic data
One of the difficulties in searching RDF data is knowing what the data looks like. For instance, finding a book by its title means knowing something about what how a dataset has recorded the relationship between a book and its…
Lodopac : simple Linked Open Data OPAC
Lodopac is my entry to the UK Discovery Developer Competition. Aside from obvious mocking of the name, comments on Lodopac are very welcome. If anyone installs it locally, I’d also be very interested to know. About Lodopac Lodopac is a…
Sketch for Eurovision linked data
I’ve been looking around to see if Eurovision data exists as linked data, or openly in any format. I can find relatively little, mostly just data about one of the recent contests, or about UK performances. None of it is…
In Our Time booklist
I have written a script which takes an unstructured reading list on the BBC’s In Our Time website, searches the British National Bibliography (BNB) using bibliographica for the books on the list, and returns structured metadata for the records it…
ISKO-UK linked data day
On 14 September I went to the ISKO-UK one day conference on Linked Data: the Future of Knowledge Organisation on the Web. For me, this followed on from a previous Talis session on Linked Data and Libraries I attended at…