Ed Summers Talks with Talis
Ed Summers has recently been active in exposing Library of Congress Subject Heading data as Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies and RDF, through his experimental service at lcsh.info.
In this conversation we find out how Ed’s career, not always on a traditional library path, has led him to his work in the Library of Congress, his pragmatic interest in things Semantic Web, and why he has needed to experiment outside of the LoC.
In this conversation we reference:
- code4lib
- Library of Congress
- National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
- National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)
- Chronicling America
- The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
- The BagIt File Package Format
- Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD)
- Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
- LCSH, SKOS and Linked Data
- lcsh.info
- Cool URIs for the Semantic Web
- How to Publish Linked Data on the Web
- Ed Summers’ web site: Inkdroid
This conversation was conducted as a Skype call on Thurday 26th June 2008, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.
December 21st, 2008 at 4:21 pm
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January 26th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
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