Update: Videos of the event now available to view

Registration is now closed for the latest in the series of free Talis Platform Open days which is specify for anyone interested  in understanding and applying Linked Data in the world of National, International, Cooperative, and other large libraries.

Talis Open Day: Linked Data and Libraries
10:00 – 16:00 – Wednesday 21st July 2010
Meeting Room 4
British Library Conference Centre
St Pancras
London

Location Information, from the British Library.

These Open Days are designed to introduce you to the principles, practice and potential of Linked Data.  Included is a short tutorial on RDF and the SPARQL query language, pitched at a level which will engage the technical and inform the non-technical attendees.

Linked Data is being adopted by many significant organisations across the web.  data.gov.uk and the BBC are just two that are working with Talis on applying Linked Data Semantic Web techniques and technologies.   As can be seen from the provisional agenda below, this day will (in addition to addressing general Linked Data issues) be covering leading library specific initiatives in this area.

AGENDA

• 09:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee
• 10:00-10:05 Welcome – Richard Wallis, Talis
• 10:05-10:15 Introduction Talis and the world of Linked Data – Zach Beavais, Talis
• 10:15-10-40 The data.bnf.fr Project – Romain Wenz, Bibliothèque nationale de France
• 10:40-10:55 Coffee
• 10:55-11:45 Linked Data, RDF, and SPARQL – Rob Styles, Talis
• 11:45-12:15 Linked Data in Action – Richard Wallis, Talis
• 12:15-13:00 Lunch
• 13:00-13:30 Lightning Talks:
                         Neil Wilson, The British Library
                         Sally Chambers, The European Library
                         Felix Ostrowsk, The North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service
• 13:30-14:15 Linked Biblographic Data – Rob Styles, Talis
• 14:15-14:30 Coffee
• 14:30-15:00 W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Grouop – Antoine Isaac, Scientific Coordinator, Europeana
• 15:00-15:30 An overview of the Talis Platform – Richard Wallis
• 15:30-16:00 What next? – A discussion about issues raised and future possibilities

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.

Follow the event on Twitter using the #ldal hashtag.
Update: We are hoping to record some of the sessions for those that can not attend to view later.