Re: Introduction

Welcome aboard Adrian - your experience will be very helpful.

~Richard.


On 14/11/2012 10:13, "Adrian Pohl" <pohl@hbz-nrw.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> after my first post to this list I also want to introduce myself to the list.
> 
> My name is Adrian Pohl (pseudonym: acka47, no former names;-). I am working at
> the German library service center hbz (Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes
> Nordrhein-Westfalen). We have been working on opening up data and publishing
> Linked Open Data since 2010. Our main project regarding linked open
> bibliographic data is lobid.org. We organize the SWIB conference (Semantic Web
> in Libraries) together with the German National Library of Economics (ZBW) -
> this year for the fourth time. I am also coordinating the Open Knowledge
> Foundation's Working Group on Open bibliographic Data[0] where we have
> developed the principles on open bibliographic data[1].
> 
> As I already have some experiences in data modelling and with RDF
> vocabularies, I thought that joining this group makes sense. In my LIS master
> thesis ([2], published last year in German) I examined how to describe and
> link libraries, their sites, collections, services (e.g. information desk,
> loan, reading room, catalog interface) and resources using existing RDF
> vocabularies. (I mainly used vCard, Dublin Core, Organization Ontology and
> Good Relations.) I also had a deeper look at DAIA this year (see [3]) which
> was already mentioned on this list. I hope that my experiences can be useful
> to the group's work.
> 
> In a separate mail I will pose my questions regarding the scope of the
> extension the group is working on.
> 
> All the best
> Adrian
> 
> 
> [0] http://openbiblio.net/get-involved/
> 
> [1] http://openbiblio.net/principles/
> 
> [2] http://hdl.handle.net/10760/16175
> 
> [3] See 
> http://www.uebertext.org/2012/05/daia-describing-organizations-services.html &
> a concrete example at
> https://wiki1.hbz-nrw.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=5144604
> 
> 
> Adrian Pohl
> - Linked Open Data -
> hbz - Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes NRW
> Tel: (+49)(0)221 - 400 75 235
> http://www.hbz-nrw.de
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 14 November 2012 12:30:42 UTC