Interesting now that two European national libraries have done this so far.
-Ross.
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From: HORVATH Adam <adam_at_oszk.hu>
Date: 2010/4/7
Subject: Hungarian National Library published its entire OPAC and
Digital Library as Linked Data
To: public-lod_at_w3.org
The national library of Hungary - officially named as National
Széchényi Library (NSZL) - proudly announces that its entire OPAC and
Digital Library and the corresponding authority data have been
published as Linked Data. The used vocabularies are:
oRDFDC for bibliographic data,
oFOAF for name authority entries, and
oSKOS for subject terms and geographical names.
NSZL uses CoolURIs. Every resource has both RDF and HTML
representation.
Our RDFDC, FAOF and SKOS statements are linked together. Our name
authority is matched with the DBPedia name files and URI aliases are
handled as owl:sameAs statements.
NSZL also supports the HTML link auto-discovery.
Examples are:
OPAC records (RDFDC):
http://nektar.oszk.hu/resource/manifestation/2645471
Digital Library record (RDFDC):
http://oszkdk.oszk.hu/resource/DRJ/404
Name authority (FOAF):
http://nektar.oszk.hu/resource/auth/33589
Subject term (SKOS):
http://nektar.oszk.hu/resource/auth/magyar_irodalom
Any feedback is welcome.
NSZL followed and adapted the Swedish LIBRIS´s practices. We are
grateful for Martin Malmsten for his help. Skosification was done
under the TELplus project with the precious feedbacks of Antoine
Isaac.
For technical datailes please contact:
Kornel Horvath (horvath.kornel_at_oszk.hu) or
Zsolt Zachar (zachar.zsolt_at_oszk.hu)
Adam Horvath
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Adam HORVATH
Director of Informatics
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NATIONAL SZECHENYI LIBRARY
Information Technology Department
Budapest, Budavari Palota F epulet, H-1827
Tel.: +36-1-224-3737 Fax: +36-1-224-3705
-Email: adam@oszk.hu WWW: http://www.oszk.hu
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Received on Tue Apr 13 2010 - 08:08:31 EDT