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Mats Skrstrand Head of Library at the Swedish Film Institute The Swedish Film Database (www.svenskfilmdatabas.se) Knows almost nothing about LOD 2019-04-26 2019-04-26 2019-04-26 2019-04-26 2019-04-26 What LOD can do Reduce


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Mats Skärstrand

  • Head of Library at the Swedish Film Institute
  • The Swedish Film Database (www.svenskfilmdatabas.se)
  • Knows almost nothing about LOD

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What LOD can do

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  • Reduce unnecessary entry of identical metadata
  • Improve metadata quality
  • Reduce incorrect metadata

(provided the linked or imported data is correct)

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What LOD can’t do

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  • Replace catalogers
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http://www.filmarkivet.se/movies/konungens-af-siam- landstigning-vid-logardstrappan/

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Can LOD and/or data exchange be of use for smaller institutions?

Yes! But we’ll need common systems that are:

  • Open
  • Free
  • Easy to use (doesn’t require expertise)
  • Shared by a large community

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EN15907 – www.filmstandards.org

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Preparing for LOD

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  • Common UIDs for cinematographic works
  • Common UIDs for agents (persons)
  • API:s (or other means of export/import)
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UIDs for Cinematographic works

Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal), Ingmar Bergman, 1957

  • Wikidata: Q217189
  • ISAN: 0000-0001-DFEF-0000-7-0000-0000-G
  • EIDR: 10.5240/A4D3-D8A0-5AF3-F60E-4BE3-T
  • VIAF: 214004599
  • IMDb: tt0050976
  • LOC: n2003046688
  • SFI: 4522

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Which UID should we choose?

  • Wikidata and/or EIDR
  • The more the merrier!

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What is Wikidata?

  • Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that anyone can edit
  • Wikidata is a database that anyone can edit
  • Contains (among other things): Unique IDs for films as well as for

persons.

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Unique ID (wikidata.org/wiki/Q217189)

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Unique ID (wikidata.org/wiki/Q792878)

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SPARQL – Wikidata query service

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SPARQL – Wikidata query service

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SPARQL – Wikidata query service

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Who performs the grunt work?

We created a very rudimentary record for a new Swedish feature film in Wikidata. Within a week it had been updated 56 times by

  • ther users:

Genre, Country of origin, Language, Publication Date, Director, Screenwriters, Cast members, Production company, Identifiers etc.

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Eviga länkar = Persistent links (1946)

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Thank you!

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