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Towards an international LOD library ecosystem
To an ever increasing extent Linked Open Data (LOD) is developing into a mainstream topic, with more and more organizations announcing LOD projects and services. Furthermore, and especially during the last two years, Linked Open Data has received a lot more attention from the library world. Examples ranging from the Library of Congress' initiative "A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age", the Conference of European National Librarians and their vote to support the open licensing of their data, groups like LODLAM, IFLA'S Semantic Web Special Interest Group, to the point of library system vendors and providers discussing and experimenting with Linked Data technology - all these clearly reflect that LOD has gained a lot of momentum in library land.
The question today is about how to ensure that LOD won't be a temporary hype but that it will gain ground in the scenery of future infrastructures. SWIB12 will focus on the adaption of Semantic Web approaches in applications for libraries and science. In the last years major efforts have been put into generating LOD datasets from legacy systems and into promoting the LOD approach towards a global and open information space. Upcoming challenges will involve the strategic and technical alignment of catalogues and legacy systems in libraries and the authoring environments for scholarly communication – both in a data and service infrastructure based on the principles of the Semantic Web.
This year's SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Libaries) will be held in Cologne from November 26th to 28th.
The main topics of this year's lectures comprise:
- Lessons Learned from Linked Data publishing
- Matching and linking of published datasets
- Data enrichment through integration of data from the LOD cloud
- Utilizing authority files for data enhancement
- Integration of Linked Data into productive library environments
- Identification of tasks for future development
Responding to the great success of our workshops in the run-up to last year's main conference we we have decided to offer a workshop day again for 2012. The workshop day will be held on November 26th. It will offer an introduction into the field of Linked Open Data for new entrants as well as it will give the opportunity to discuss and deepen new knowledge. Please note that the number of participants in these workshops is limited, so please register early.
As in the years before, SWIB12 will be organized by the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz) and the ZBW - German National Library of Economics / Leibniz Information Centre for Economics . The conference language is English.
Information on participating / attending:
Anmeldung:
https://www.conftool.net/swib12/
Die Tagungsgebühr beträgt 100 Euro bzw. 150 Euro (Vorträge plus Workshops).
Date:
11/26/2012 08:00 - 11/28/2012 18:00
Registration deadline:
11/25/2012
Event venue:
Bürgerhaus Stollwerck
Dreikönigenstr. 23
50678 Cologne
50678 Köln
Schleswig-Holstein
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Information technology
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference, Presentation / colloquium / lecture, Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
09/04/2012
Sender/author:
Dr. Doreen Siegfried
Department:
Marketing und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event40768
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