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Linked data is now essential for sharing collections on the open web. Linked Data for Cultural Heritage gathers a stellar list of contributors to help readers understand linked data concepts by examining practice and projects based in libraries, archives, and museums.
Linked open data remains very much a work in progress, and much of the progress has taken place within the domain of the cultural heritage institutions: libraries, archives, and museums. There is no question that the structure of linked data, and the machine inferencing it supports, shows great promise for discoverability. What will be the ‘killer app’ that breaks linked open data out to the wider world and accelerates its uptake? Perhaps it will be a project described in this volume.
Content covered includes:
- a very simple description of linked data, summing up its promises and challenges
- a survey of the use of linked data in significant projects across the cultural heritage domain, including Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
- practical discussion of migrating a catalogue from a MARC environment to one of linked data and the possibilities that open up in terms of the broader scholarly community
- reviewing and reimagining library thesauri, metadata schemas, and information discovery, to look at how controlled vocabularies integrate library practice with linked data
- an examination of the role of authority control, identifiers and vocabularies, including use of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and the SPARQL query language
- Carol Jean Godby describes OCLC’s experiments with Schema.org as the foundation for a model of library resource description expressed as linked data
- the development of the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) data model and a description of the fundamental differences between MARC and BIBFRAME.
This survey of the cultural heritage linked data landscape will be a key resource for metadata practitioners and researchers within all cultural heritage contexts and all students and academics within the information science and digital humanities fields.
This refreshing volume cuts through much of the hype about linked data with clear-eyed discussions of the components that make up the semantic web, and delves into several current ongoing projects and implementations. The authors acknowledge that there are many challenges and that the work is still beginning. Though at first glance the work appears rather daunting and dense, on closer inspection it proves well-written and fascinating in its accounts of the semantic web's components. Highly recommended for those wishing further acquaintance with linked data, as well as others who may be well-versed in the topic.
Introduction - Ed Jones
1. Linked Open Data and the Cultural Heritage Landscape - Hilary K. Thorsen and M. Christina Pattuelli
2. Making MARC Agnostic: Transforming the English Short Title Catalogue for the Linked Data Universe - Carl Stahmer
3. Authority Control for the Web: Integrating Library Practice with Linked Data - Allison Jai O’Dell
4. Linked Data Implications for Authority Control and Vocabularies: An STM Perspective - Iker Huerga and Michael P. Lauruhn
5. A Division of Labor: The Role of Schema.org in a Semantic Web Model of Library Resources - Carol Jean Godby
6. BIBFRAME and Linked Data for Libraries - Sally McCallum