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Is There Still a Case for Aggregations of Cultural Data – Data Liberate
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Is There Still a Case for Aggregations of Cultural Data. By Richard Wallis on June 9, 2015. Published in Data Publishing. A bit of a profound question triggered by a guest post on Museums Computer Group. By Nick Poole CEO of The Collections Trust. And an overview of recent announcements about it. Broadly the changes are that:. The Culture Grid closed to ‘new accessions’ (ie. new collections of metadata) on the 30th April. The investment of time and effort required to participate in platforms like the Cul...
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Schema.org 2.0 – Data Liberate
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Schema.org 2.0. By Richard Wallis on June 5, 2015. Published in Consuming Data. About a month ago Version 2.0 of the Schema.org. Vocabulary hit the streets. This update includes loads of tweaks, additions and fixes that can be found in the release information. The automotive folks have got new vocabulary for describing Car. S including useful properties such as numberofAirbags. And its inverse, mainEntity. To support movie/video screenings, and a gtin12. Sticking with the vocabulary for the moment, there...
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The role of Role in Schema.org – Data Liberate
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The role of Role in Schema.org. By Richard Wallis on April 15, 2015. Published in Data Publishing. Is basically a simple vocabulary for describing stuff, on the web. Embed it in your html and the search engines will pick it up as they crawl, and add it to their structured data knowledge graphs. They even give you three formats to chose from Microdata, RDFa, and JSON-LD when doing the embedding. I’m assuming, for this post, that the benefits of being part of the Knowledge Graphs. So what need is this sati...
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A Step for Schema.org – A Leap for Bib Data on the Web – Data Liberate
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A Step for Schema.org A Leap for Bib Data on the Web. By Richard Wallis on September 2, 2014. Published in Data Publishing. Regular readers of this blog may well know I am an enthusiast for Schema.org. The generic vocabulary for describing things on the web as structured data, backed by the major search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo! Schema.org as a generic vocabulary to describe most stuff, easily embedded in your web pages, has been a great success. The SchemaBibEx group have had several proposals accept...
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Baby Steps Towards A Library Graph – Data Liberate
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Baby Steps Towards A Library Graph. By Richard Wallis on September 26, 2014. Building blocks such as Schema.org. Linked Data in WorldCat.org. Moves to enhance Schema.org capabilities. For bibliographic resource description; recognition that Linked Data has a beneficial place in library data and initiative. S to turn that into a reality; the release of Work entity data. Mined from, and linked to, the huge WorldCat.org. You may say,. We’ve heard all that before, so what is new now? Let The Future Go. An am...
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Hidden Gems in the new Schema.org 3.1 Release. On August 10, 2016. Published in Data Publishing. I spend a significant amount of time working with Google folks, especially Dan Brickley, and others on the supporting software, vocabulary contents, and application of Schema.org. So it is with great pleasure, and a certain amount of relief, I share the announcement of the release of 3.1. 8211; A significant reorganisation of the extensive collection of medical/health terms, that were introduced. 8220;, which...
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Data Liberate Founder Richard Wallis. Richard established Data Liberate. Having been with the UK’s leading Linked Data and Semantic Web technology company, Talis. For over twenty years. This coupled with his passion for and engagement with new and emerging technology trends, gives him a unique perspective of the issues challenging information professionals today. He worked for three years with the global library cooperative OCLC. As Chair of the W3C Schema Bib Extend working group, and an active member o...
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Google Sunsets Freebase – Good News For Wikidata? – Data Liberate
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Google Sunsets Freebase Good News For Wikidata? By Richard Wallis on December 17, 2014. Published in Data Publishing. Yesterday that it is the end of the line for Freebase. Decided to help transfer the data in Freebase to Wikidata, and in mid-2015 we’ll wind down the Freebase service as a standalone project. Before the end of March 2015. 8211; We’ll launch a Wikidata import review tool. March 31, 2015. 8211; Freebase as a service will become read-only. 8211; The website will no longer accept edits. In th...
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WorldCat Works – 197 Million Nuggets of Linked Data – Data Liberate
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WorldCat Works 197 Million Nuggets of Linked Data. By Richard Wallis on April 28, 2014. Published in Data Publishing. A couple of months back. I spoke about the preview release of Works data from WorldCat.org. Today OCLC published a press release. Announcing the official release of 197 million descriptions of bibliographic Works. Type from the Schema.org. They look a little different to the kind of metadata we are used to in the library world. Check out this example. These links ( URI. The simplest way i...
