Semantic Library

A few bookmarks while I was conferencing and traveling:

Semantic Library: RDF in Practice

This recent podcast by Robert Wolfe at MIT (via Catalogablog) is what I’ll be listening to on my commute tomorrow. Topics include SIMILE, RDF and SKOS.

RDA satellite conference report

The Bib Blog has a good summary of the RDA pre-conference held prior to the 2008 IFLA Congress last month. The linked presentations give a good introduction to RDA and the linkages to FRBR, FRBRoo and the Semantic Web.

One Web, No Go

Oliver Weidlich’s presentation, “One Web, No Go” at the Australian Web Standards Group meeting in August (via CaseyG) on the mobile web goes through the pros and cons of developing mobile-specific sites. A range of examples of (commercial) sites is also included. Libraries should be considering these issues now, as demand for mobile services grows and more OPACs are available with mobile options. For many, it will be more resource-efficient (and more logical in the long run) to focus on standards-compliant sites for any device rather than putting resources into a mobile-optimised site.

So who’s writing about the semantic web in LIS, and what are they writing? I plan to take a look at that through a series of Reading Notes posts. I hope to try out the Blogging on Peer Review Research (BPR3) way of blogging about scholarly articles.

So what’s out there to draw from?  Taking a look at articles in the open access repositories in LIS containing the keywords semantic web -

19 articles in D-LIST
101 articles in E-LIS

The most interesting thing besides the large difference in the number of results? How many articles in E-LIS on the topic are not in English, but rather in European languages, reflecting that development of the Semantic Web has been quite strongly supported in Europe until now.

Stay tuned for Reading Notes, soon!