[Yulcat-l] LITA: Linked Data Webinar Series | possible group training?

[Nolte, Jennifer]

Some interesting webinars coming from LITA: http://www.ala.org/lita/learning/online/linkeddata
Linked data primer December 5, 2013, 11:00 am - noon CST
Trying to conceptualize a MARC record as bits that can stand on their own in a linked data world takes more than just a few steps. We will learn to reformulate MARC bibliographic data that are parts of a record and enable the same data to live out on the open Web. For this transformation, currently, the most commonly used form that is being deployed is based on RDF triples (Resource Description Framework). RDF is a standard that bridges human and data for interchange on the Web. It supports evolution of schemas over time, and makes relationships meaningful through the triple structure.
Coding experiments to transform MARC to linked data January 14, 2014, 11:00 am - noon CST
The Library of Congress recent initiative called BIBFRAME is intended to replace the MARC21 standard with a new vocabulary and infrastructure based on LinkedData principles. This webinar session will introduce the basic concepts behind BIBFRAME and demonstrate how MARC21 records could be ingested into a native BIBFRAME NoSQL bibliographic datastore that is part of the open-source Redis Library Services Platform. During the webinar, actual working code will be shown and how MARC record ingestion into the Redis Library Services Platform works along with a Discovery App that has the LinkedData JSON interfaces using BIBFRAME, RDA, and Schema.org vocabularies.
SKOS, SPARQL, and vocabulary management February 11, 2014, 11:00 am - noon CST
SPARQL and SKOS are two W3C standards that build on RDF. The SPARQL query language lets you look for patterns in any RDF dataset; its ability to query across multiple different datasets at once with no concern for explicit structure is opening up new possibilities for working with distributed data. SKOS is an extensible RDF-based ontology designed for vocabulary management, and the Library of Congress, New York Times, and other organizations have made their subject heading and name authority files publicly available in SKOS. We'll see how to use SPARQL and SKOS together to get more out of SKOS and other RDF-based data.

Single Webinar:

  *   LITA Member: $39
  *   Non-Member: $99
  *   Group: $190
All three webinars:

  *   LITA Member: $99
  *   Non-Member: $279
  *   Group: $499



Jenn Nolte
Applications Manager / Database Administrator
Enterprise Systems & Programming
Library IT
Yale University Library
120 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511
203 432 4878

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