Datos.bne.es: a LOD service and a FRBR-modelled access into the library collections

Datos.bne.es was first launched in 2011 as the data service from the National Library of Spain. In November 2014 a new beta version was built broadening the scope and data wealth included and building, on top of the entity-based data model, an innovative search and display tool targeted to the common user. FRBR has been the model of choice for transforming, sorting, arrange and finally display the data extracted from the bibliographic and authority MARC21 records. This paper explains the goals and fundamentals behind this ongoing project, the workflows and the decisions made in the conceptualization, the data services developed and the underlying technology supporting all these processes. Finally, taking into account the feedback received from users, some assessment are made about benefits and downsides of this FRBR-inspired visualization and LOD exposure experiment, drawing some conclusions and possible steps for the future.