In 2014 the SBN technical and scientific Committee charged ICCU to establish a working group, whose task is to check the feasibility for publishing and accessing the SBN data according to Linked Open Data (LOD) technologies.

The Working Group, made up both of ICCU representatives and experts from the VAST LAB PIN laboratory (University Extension of Prato – Didactic and scientific services for the University of Florence (Polo universitario della città di Prato – Servizi didattici e scientifici per l’Università di Firenze)), has realized a logical and operating schema for generating and publishing SBN datasets as LOD.

The Group activities have focused on a concept mapping of a recordset, exported from the SBN OPAC in the UNIMARC format; the mapping is based on the properties and classes of the FRBRoo model (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records-object oriented), using the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM).
The data conversion in RDF format has been developed on the basis of this mapping, and an online interface prototype on an Aduna Sesame platform has been realized, for the management and search of SBN data in a LOD format.
At present, the prototype is being tested.

Activity plan of the SBN LOD Working Group (in Italian) - January 2015

The Working Group includes:

Since 2015 the activity of SBN LOD working group has improved the analysis and development of the Linked Open Data for the profile of EDIT16 (National Census of Italian Editions of the 16th Century) data.
The working group: Carla Baccini, Luigi Cerullo, Costanza Messana, Elena Ravelli, Rosaria Maria Servello (ICCU).