Digital Libraries: Linked Open Data
(LOD) .. what comes next
Transformation of Digital Library in
Libraries
Ora Zehavi
Libraries… Librarians
 With their expertise in search, metadata
generation, collection development librarians
should actually be well positioned to
understand and implement linked data.
With developments of Resource Description
& Access (RDA), Functional Requirements for
Bibliographic Records (FRBR), and Functional
Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD)
standards libraries are now in the transition
towards linked data
Linked Data is about using the Web to
connect related data that wasn't
previously linked, or using the Web to
lower the barriers to linking data currently
linked using other methods
Libraries & Linked data
 Linked Open Data is a way of publishing structured
data that allows metadata to be connected and
enriched, so that different representations of the
same content can be found, and links made
between related resources
 Linked data represents a major opportunity for
libraries to integrate information resources with
the wider web.
 It provides a foundation for better data
management, allowing libraries to store, share
and re-use data as needed
Changes
 All kind of Data, Open Data
 Discovery and Delivery solution
 Mega-aggregation of hundreds of millions of
scholarly e-resources
 Linkage,
 Shared Metadata
 The era of Google
 Cloud
 Traffic
 Hidden information & databases
 Web-based, Open interfaces
Devises.. IPhone… E-readers
Academic libraries in Israel
 Gateway to Knowledge
 Integration from many sources (not only in the library
collection
 All kind of materials
 One search-Google like
 Retrieve information in Hebrew
 Relevant and Precision
Future
With so many rapid changes occurring in
technology and social media, librarians
need to maintain their role as technology
leaders more than ever
Economics, not technology, is (or will be)
driving the need for fundamental changes
in our universities and in our libraries
In This session:
Israeli bibliographic data and the
international scene
Prof. Elhanan Adler, National
Library of Israel and David Yellin
College
Discovery Tools in Academic
Libraries: why, what and how?
Edith Falk, Chief Librarian,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hebrew University Libraries
Authority.