Abstract:
Semantics are an integral part of bibliographic (meta-)data
including authority files. So far, however, there have been only
rudimentary attempts to make those data visible on the Semantic Web.
This paper presents a sketch of what (national) libraries will need to
supply in order to allow for broad use of their data on the Semantic
Web. The main points are persistent URIs for all entities, a set of welldefined
vocabularies to describe the data, and the provision of query
interfaces suitable for the Semantic Web. In the final section three
current projects from the German National Library are presented, in
which the semantics of bibliographic data is presented using Semantic
Web techniques.
