Today’s Talis Linked Data and Libraries open day has motivated me to make a list of some of the external data tools, web services and APIs that could well end up being sucked into Jerome’s vortex of general awesomeness.
I was inspired (possibly through drinking too much SPARQL-themed coffee) by the thought that 2010 is effectively ‘year 1′ for library-themed Linked Data. (But I promise I’ll try and keep the ‘Lincoln’/'linking’ puns to a minimum after this post…)
“With the emergence of large, centralized sources entry to the Linked Data cloud might be easier than you think” (Ross Singer, The Linked Library Data Cloud: Stop talking and start doing, Code4Lib 2010)
So, which of these will make their way into the Jerome toolkit? (I’ll say now, before I get in trouble, that they’re not all purely Linked Data!) …compiled in part from these other lists, and by discussions/examples at the Talis event:
- Amazon Product Advertising API and affiliate scheme
- Bibliographic Ontology (BIBO)
- British Library Free Data Services - edit: added 25 August 2010, 13:40 BST
- Cambridge University Library APIs
- Classify (OCLC)
- Copac APIs inc. search
- data.lincoln.gov.uk - edit: added 6 September 2010, 09:47 BST
- Dewey Decimal Classification: Summaries
- EPrints (drives the Lincoln Repository)
- Free Decimal Correspondence - edit: added 20 August 2010, 12:06 BST
- Google Book Search
- Hathi Trust
- ISSN-L - edit: added 4 August 2010, 12:23 BST
- JISC Open Bibliography British National Bibliography dataset - edit: added 18 October 2010, 11:50 GMT
- JournalTOCs
- Juice Project - edit: added 30 July 2010, 13:57 BST
- Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies
- LibraryThing
- LibraryThing book cover images
- Melvil Decimal System (LibraryThing) - edit: added 22 August 2010, 22:11 BST
- Mendeley - edit: added 22 July 2010, 16:51 BST
- MARC codes as Linked Data
- MOSAIC
- Open Library
- Open Metadata Registry
- OUseful ISBN Playground - edit: added 12 January 2011, 14:06 GMT
- RefWorks APIs as per the TELSTAR project
- SHERPA/RoMEO - edit: added 28 July 2010, 14:02 BST
- Silkworm Directory (Talis) - edit: added 21 July 2010, 22:57 BST
- Talis Keystone
- Talis Platform – e.g. the UK bib store
- ThingISBN (LibraryThing)
- VIAF: The Virtual International Authority File
- Web of Science web services (Thomson Reuters)
- WorldCat Search API (OCLC)
- WorldCat Registry (OCLC)
- xISBN (OCLC)
- xISSN (OCLC)
What have I missed? Which of these are not worth bothering with; which should we get stuck into without delay? You know where the comment form is…
A quick thought on this from the database side. Our choice of a non-relational database has made cross-service integration much easier than before. There’s already provision to store (and deliver) masses of data associated with items even if it’s not been tailored to Jerome.
One of our longer term aims is auto-completing records to the extent that an academic could feed a title and author into a reading list one evening, and by his 9am lecture the next day it’s been populated with ISBN number, publisher, cover image, citations of the text and links to buy a copy.
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