I'm sure there'd be a great interest in any of this content being made
available by on-demand video after the conference.
Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
Colgate University Libraries
charper_at_colgate.edu
315-228-7363
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Richard Wallis <Richard.Wallis_at_talis.com>wrote:
> Apologies for cross posting if you receive this more than once.
>
> The agenda for this free Talis Open Day at the British Library Conference
> Centre, London on 21st July, focused upon Linked Data and Libraries is now
> taking shape.
>
> It is a day for those interested in the potential for, and application of,
> Linked data by International and National libraries. Sessions will cover an
> introduction to Linked Data, a short RDF and SPARQL tutorial (pitched at a
> level which will engage the technical and inform the non-technical), and
> descriptions of National and International Library Linked Data projects and
> initiatives.
>
> Speakers confirmed include:
>
> * Romain Wenz, Bibliothèque nationale de France — The BnF Pivot project
> to to build a Linked Data RDF catalogue linked in to the web of data.
> * Antoine Issacs, Scientific Coordinator, Europeana — W3C Library Linked
> Data Incubator Group
> * Rob Styles, Talis — Finding Semantic Relationships in Marc
>
>
> Linked Data is being adopted by many significant organisations across the
> web. data.gov.uk<http://data.gov.uk/> and the BBC are just two that are
> working with Talis applying Linked Data Semantic Web techniques and
> technologies. As can be seen from the agenda below, this day will (in
> addition to addressing general Linked Data issues) be covering leading
> library specific initiatives in this area.
>
> AGENDA
>
> * Introduction to Linked Data
> * Overview of the Talis Platform
> * The Bnf Pivot project
> * W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group
> * RDF/SPARQL tutorial
> * Bibo – The Bibliographic Ontology
> * Finding Semantic Relationships in MARC
> * Linked Data in action
>
> This is an ideal free day for those wanting an insight in to the potential
> and the practicalities of applying Linked Data to library data.
>
> More information and registration:
> http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2010/06/talis-open-day-linked-data-and-libraries.php
>
> Richard Wallis
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Received on Thu Jun 24 2010 - 11:22:33 EDT