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Advice, guidance, evaluation, training, consultancy services, writing, podcasting, conference keynotes and presentations are some of the ways that Data Liberate can help you and your organisation identify and release value from your data, within the enterprise and on the public Web of Data Recent Postings From the Blog… Library Metadata Evolution: The Final Mile Posted on May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 by Richard Wallis When Schema.org arrived on the scene I thought we might have arrived at the point where library metadata  could finally blossom; adding value outside of library systems to help library curated resources become first class citizens, and hence results, in the global web we all inhabit.  But as yet it has not happened. Read More ... Posted in Bibframe, Data Liberate, Knowledge Graph, Libraries, schema.org, Structured DataTagged Bibframe2Schema.org, Libraries, Library of Congress1 Comment Something For Archives in Schema.org Posted on April 3, 2019 by Richard Wallis The recent release of the Schema.org vocabulary (version 3.5) includes new types and properties, proposed by the W3C Schema Architypes Community Group, specifically target at facilitating the web sharing of archives data to aid discovery. When the Group, which I have the privilege to chair, approached the challenge of building a proposal to make Schema.org useful for archives, it was identified that the vocabulary could be already used to describe the things & collections that you find in archives.  What was missing was the ability to identify the archive holding organisation, and the fact that an item is being held … Read More ... Posted in Archives, Data Publishing, Linked Data, schema.org, WebTagged Archives, schema.orgLeave a comment Bibframe – Schema.org – Chocolate Teapots Posted on August 27, 2018August 27, 2018 by Richard Wallis In a session at the IFLA WLIC in Kuala Lumpur – my core theme being that there is a need to use two [linked data] vocabularies when describing library resources — Bibframe for cataloguing and [linked] metadata interchange — Schema.org for sharing on the web for discovery. Read More ... Posted in Bibframe, Libraries, Linked Data, Marc, schema.org, Structured DataTagged Libraries, Linked Data, schema.orgLeave a comment Schema.org Introduces Defined Terms Posted on June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 by Richard Wallis Do you have a list of terms relevant to your data? Things such as subjects, topics, job titles, a glossary or dictionary of terms, blog post categories, ‘official names’ for things/people/organisations, material types, forms of technology, etc. Read More ... Posted in Data Publishing, schema.org, UncategorizedTagged #linkeddata, schema.org, SEO6 Comments Schema.org Significant Updates for Tourism and Trips Posted on June 15, 2018June 21, 2018 by Richard Wallis The latest release of Schema.org (3.4) includes some significant enhancements for those interested in marking up tourism, and trips in general. For tourism markup two new types TouristDestination and TouristTrip have joined the already useful TouristAttraction Read More ... Posted in Data Publishing, Knowledge Graph, schema.org, SEO, Tourism, WebTagged schema.org, SEO, TourismLeave a comment The Three Linked Data Choices for Libraries Posted on May 22, 2018May 22, 2018 by Richard Wallis We are [finally] on the cusp of establishing a de facto Linked Data approach for libraries and their system suppliers – not there yet but getting there. We have a choice between BIBFRAME 2.0, Schema.org, Linky MARC and doing nothing. Read More ... Posted in Bibframe, Data Publishing, Libraries, Linked Data, Marc, schema.org, Semantic Web, Structured DataTagged Bibframe, Libraries, Linked Data, Marc, Schema.ogLeave a comment Structured Data: Helping Google Understand Your Site Posted on November 13, 2017May 22, 2018 by Richard Wallis Add Schema.org structured data to your pages because during indexing, we will be able to better understand what your site is about. Read More ... Posted in Data Publishing, Google, Linked Data, schema.org, Structured Data Schema.org for Tourism Posted on September 19, 2017June 15, 2018 by Richard Wallis These TouristAttraction enhancements have significantly improved the capability for describing Tourist Attractions and hopefully enabling more tourist discoveries Read More ... Posted in Data Publishing, schema.org, SEO, TourismTagged LinkedData, schema.org, SEO, Tourism1 Comment Schema.org: Describing Global Corporations Local Cafés And Everything In-between Posted on September 15, 2017May 31, 2018 by Richard Wallis There have been  discussions in Schema.org about the way Organizations their offices, branches and other locations can be marked up; they exposed a lack of clarity in the way to structure descriptions of Organizations and their locations, offices, branches , etc. To address that lack of clarity I thought it would be useful to share some examples here. Read More ... Posted in Data Publishing, schema.org, SEOTagged Schema.og, SEO A Discovery Opportunity for Archives? Posted on June 19, 2017June 19, 2017 by Richard Wallis So why am I now suggesting that there maybe an opportunity for the discovery of archives and their resources? Read More ... 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