Research Catalog

Title

Linked data for cultural heritage / Ed Jones and Michele Seikel, editors.

Publication

Chicago : ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Jones, Ed, 1951-
• Seikel, Michele

Description

xvi, 134 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"With its roots in computer science, linked data is unfamiliar territory for many library catalogers. But since the origins of MARC nearly 50 years ago, the value of machine-readable library records has only grown. Today linked data is essential for sharing library collections on the open web, especially the digital cultural heritage in the collections of libraries, archives, and museums. In this book, the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) gathers a stellar list of contributors to help readers understand linked data concepts by examining practice and projects based in familiar concepts like authority control. Topped by an insider's perspective on OCLC's experiments with Schema.org and the Library of Congress's BIBFRAME project, the book addresses such topics as: a simplified description of linked data, summing up its promises and challenges; controlled vocabularies for the web; broadening use of library-curated vocabularies; how the complexity of AV models reveals the limitations of retrospective conversion; BIBFRAME's triplestore data model; ways libraries are helping science researchers share their data, with descriptions of projects underway at major institutions; balancing the nuance within an element set with the sameness needed for sharing; and the influence of projects such as Europeana and Digital Public Library of America. This survey of the cultural heritage landscape will be a key resource for catalogers and those in the metadata community"--

Series Statement

An ALCTS monograph

Uniform Title

ALCTS monograph

Subject

• Linked data
• Linked data > Case studies
• Semantic Web
• RDF (Document markup language)
• BIBFRAME (Conceptual model)
• Authority files (Information retrieval)
• Machine-readable bibliographic data formats
• Cultural property > Electronic information resources
• Données liées
• Données liées > Études de cas
• Web sémantique
• RDF (Langage de balisage)
• BIBFRAME (Modèle conceptuel)
• Fichiers d'autorité
• Données bibliographiques lisibles par machine > Formats
• authority files
• Linked Data
• Kulturerbe

Genre/Form

• Case Reports
• Case studies
• Collections.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Linked open data and the cultural heritage landscape / Hilary K. Thorsen and M. Christina Pattuelli -- Making MARC agnostic : transforming the English short title catalogue for the linked data universe / Carl Stahmer -- Authority control for the Web : integrating library practice with linked data / Alison Jai O'Dell -- Linked data implications for authority control and vocabularies : an STM perspective / Iker Huerga and Michael P. Lauruhn -- A division of labor : the role of Schema.org in a Semantic Web model of library resources / Carol Jean Godby -- BIBFRAME and linked data for libraries / Sally H. McCallum.

ISBN

• 9780838914397
• 083891439X

LCCN

• 2016010125
• 40026297607

OCLC

• 945582439
• SCSB-12698160

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library