datos.bne.es: A library linked dataset

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Vila-Suero, Daniel^; | Villazón-Terrazas, Boris | Gómez-Pérez, Asunción

Affiliations: Ontology Engineering Group, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain. E-mail: {dvila,asun}@fi.upm.es

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Abstract: We describe the datos.bne.es library dataset. The dataset makes available the authority and bibliography catalogue from the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE, National Library of Spain) as Linked Data. The catalogue contains around 7 million authority and bibliographic records. The records in MARC 21 format were transformed to RDF and modelled using IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) ontologies and other well-established vocabularies such as RDA (Resource Description and Access) or the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. A tool named MARiMbA automatized the RDF generation process and the data linkage to DBpedia and other library linked data resources such as VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) or GND (Gemeinsame Normdatei, the authority dataset from the German National Library).

Keywords: Library linked data, cultural heritage linked data, linked open data, bibliographic data, authority data, FRBR, RDF

DOI: 10.3233/SW-120094

Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 307-313, 2013