VALA2018 Session 7 Cook

David Cook

Linked Data in Koha

VALA2018 CONCURRENT SESSION 7
Wednesday 14 February 2018, 10:50 – 11:20

David Cook

Prosentient Systems

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Abstract

Despite the concept of Linked Data being over ten years old, it has yet to make a practical impact in the library world. Libraries prize standards and best practices, but there is no clear leader in the field and many Linked Data implementations appear experimental or isolated. Nonetheless, stakeholders in Sweden, Norway, the United States of America, and Australia are working to integrate Linked Data into the open-source library management system Koha. There are many challenges, but developers are collaborating globally to overcome them.

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VALA2014 Session 2 Balnaves

Complex harvesting for content from public sources and email

VALA2014 CONCURRENT SESSION 2: It’s All About the Data
Tuesday 4 February 2014, 12:00 – 12:30
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Edmund Balnaves

Prosentient Systems, NSW

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Abstract

This paper presents the results of a project for complex harvesting system from web and email sources integrated with open source platforms to improve discovery of information about or relevant to the organisation from public internet sources. The paper discusses methods of harvesting, drawing on a mix of RSS, Google API search and simple web parsing. The paper presents the results of automated metadata allocation and subsequent manual curation. The project highlights the need to use multiple web scanning techniques, so as to be sufficiently exhaustive to catch relevant references, but also sufficiently specific to avoid unduly large false positive candidates for selection.

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VALA2012 Session 5 Balnaves

Reigniting the OPAC as a metadata hub

VALA2012 CONCURRENT SESSION 5: metaFutures
Tuesday 7 February 2012, 15:15 – 15:45
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Edmund Balnaves

Prosentient Systems, NSW

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Tuesday, February 07, 2012, 3:15 PM AUSEDT, 32 Minutes 17 Seconds.

Abstract

The OPAC, being a well-structured metadata resource with open extensibility through a well-understood ontology, should not be neglected as an effective path to effective resource delivery. Combined with an open source approach the OPAC can be re-invigorated as a metadata hub. Through web 2.0 and service layers such as OAP-PMH and by importing metadata from existing electronic sources the traditional OPAC and service as a search interface through to both print and electronic resources.

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