Linked data for cultural heritage

Abstract

With its roots in computer science, linked data is unfamiliar territory for many library cataloguers, 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.

Contents

Linked open data and the cultural heritage landscape / Hilary 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 / Allison 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 / by Sally McCallum.