The National Library Board’s (NLB) Entity Data Service (EDS) is a linked data initiative built on NLB’s knowledge graph, comprising some 2.6 million transformed records from the NLB and National Archives of Singapore (NAS) collections, with entities representing people, organisations and places described across these collections.
This presentation will introduce the origins of the EDS and how entities are managed within the knowledge graph. Using examples of Person entities, it will demonstrate how entity resolution brings together different descriptions and references to the same person across disparate collections, enabling related resources to be connected.
The presentation will conclude with lessons from developing the service and considerations for its future growth, including the importance of authority data in supporting entity reconciliation and enabling entity data to be shared with others.
