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The agenda for this free Talis Open Day at the British Library Conference Centre, London on 21st July, focused upon Linked Data and Libraries is now taking shape.

It is a day for those interested in the potential for, and application of, Linked data by International and National libraries.  Sessions will cover an introduction to Linked Data, a short RDF and SPARQL tutorial (pitched at a level which will engage the technical and inform the non-technical), and descriptions of National and International Library Linked Data projects and initiatives.

Speakers confirmed include:

 *   Romain Wenz, Bibliothèque nationale de France — The BnF Pivot project to to build a Linked Data RDF catalogue linked in to the web of data.
 *   Antoine Issacs, Scientific Coordinator, Europeana — W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group
 *   Rob Styles, Talis — Finding Semantic Relationships in Marc


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

AGENDA

 *   Introduction to Linked Data
 *   Overview of the Talis Platform
 *   The Bnf Pivot project
 *   W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group
 *   RDF/SPARQL tutorial
 *   Bibo – The Bibliographic Ontology
 *   Finding Semantic Relationships in MARC
 *   Linked Data in action

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.

More information and registration:  http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2010/06/talis-open-day-linked-data-and-libraries.php

Richard Wallis
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