Semantic Web in Libraries / #SWIB11
I attended the Semantic Web in Bibliotheken (i.e., … in libraries) meeting in Hamburg this week and presented our work on behalf of the team. Besides the presentation, the organizers (HBZ and ZBW) invited me to participate in the panel discussion at the end of the conference, and I would like to stress again what I said there: I think the libraries are really on top of their game when it comes to Linked Open Data. Having looked at a number of other fields in the context of LODUM, I must say that very few disciplines embrace the idea of LOD in the way the libraries do.
I was very impressed by the quality of the meeting and the presentations and made some useful new contacts (and finally met some people I only knew by email). Feedback for LODUM was also very positive, which came in both in talks over coffee and via Twitter:
It was quite a Twitter-friendly crowd in general, check the #SWIB11 hashtag on Twitter for a really impressive number of tweets from the meeting. I'd like to mention one last tweet:
I mention this one because Chris Gutteridge from Southampton came up to me and said:
I love what you're doing, but I hate your HTML pages.
And that's for a good reason. I think we really can (and need to) do a lot better here, and that is indeed something I would like to work on in the coming weeks. I think we'll give Chris' Graphite framework a shot for this task.
For the sake of completeness, my slides from SWIB11:
- Carsten