Linked data for librarians – new online tutorial

The first part of the course is designed to provide introductory material, part two covers more advanced material and hands on exercises. Each module requires a relatively brief time commitment concluding with a series of questions designed to check the user’s understanding of the material presented.

The course is designed and presented by Seth van Hooland, Associate Professor, Département des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication, Université libre de Bruxelles, and Ruben Verborgh, professor of Semantic Web Technology at IDLab, a group of Ghent University/imec.

As of this writing, I have completed the first three units of Part 1. The material is well organized, examples are well thought out, and the topics are presented in what seem to be new and creative ways. I am looking forward to completing the balance of the material.

Course citation: van Hooland, S. and Verborgh, R. (2017) “Linked Data for Librarians.” Available at http://course.freeyourmetadata.org/

Course outline:

Part 1

• Introduction
• Understanding data modesl
• Possibilities and limitations of RDF
• Data quality
• Data profiling and cleaning

Part 2

• Vocabulary reconciliation
• Metadata enriching
• REST
• Decentralization and federation
• Conclusions”

Stephen