Library Marc Records Into Linked Open Data: Challenges and Opportunities

Cole, Tim; Han, Myung-Ja; Weathers, William Fletcher; Joyner, Eric

doi:10.1080/19386389.2013.826074

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“…As pointed out by UIUC libraries: “Clearly there is no agreed upon best practice for using and mixing semantics when encoding library bibliographic metadata in RDF… Given the differences in how OCLC, BL, BnF, and other libraries have chosen to implement LOD for bibliographic metadata. It is also not clear if the OCLC approach is optimal… there are too many semantic sets used for library LOD data sets (Cole, Han, Weathers, & Joyner, 2013). ” Standardization not only increases consistency in data modeling and improves interoperability, it also paves the way for vendors to upgrade their systems and incorporate LD functionalities.…”

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Diffusion and adoption of Linked Data among libraries

Niu

2020

Proc Assoc Inf Sci Technol

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Through content analyses of literature about the Linked Data (LD) adoption of individual libraries, this study found that the diffusion of LD among libraries is a decentralized process with high‐degree of reinvention and a continuous process that includes multiple stages and might last for many years. The diffusion of LD among libraries involves the diffusion of numerous related innovations, follows three paths (inter‐library, intra‐library, and inter‐librarian), and is facilitated by four types of institutions (professional associations, vendors, external funders, and leading libraries) and three factors (avoiding re‐inventing the wheel, standardization, and commercialization).

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Diffusion and adoption of Linked Data among libraries

Niu

2020

Proc Assoc Inf Sci Technol

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“…In Cole, Han, Weathers, and Joyner (2013), the authors also mention the challenge of "too many semantic options available for creating RDF representations" in the library context: early adopters of library LOD often have "developed their own namespaces and semantics when publishing their catalogue records as LOD data sets." As a result, the authors continue, "there are too many sets used for library LOD data sets.…”

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Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences

2020

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We thank William J. Badecker, NSF Linguistics Program director, whose advice has been invaluable during all stages of this project, and Marc Lowenthal and Anthony Zannino at MIT Press, who guided us to publication. We thank Amy Brand, director of MIT Press, whose pursuit of the development of scholarly communication in the digital age provided support for our project. The Cornell University Library, through Oya Rieger, provided continual advice and support, as well as a critical dimension of library-researcher relations, continuing the early vision of previous Mann Library director, Janet McCue. Emily Bernardski provided key support and coordination for the workshop, as did Carissa Kang and Jonathan Masci, our student support team. Our editors Michelle Melanson and Rebecca Rich Goldweber provided invaluable assistance in volume publication. James Gair provided continual support throughout.

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“…The University of Illinois Library worked on publishing MARC21 records of 30,000 digitized books as Linked Library Data by adding links, transforming them to LOD-friendly semantics (MODS) and deploying them as RDF with the objective to be used by a wider community. 119 To them, using Semantic Web technologies, a book can be linked to related resources and multiple possible https://doi.org/10.6017/ital.v37i4.10432 contexts, which is an opportunity for libraries to build innovative user-centered services for the dissemination and uses of bibliographic metadata. 120 In this regard, the challenge is to utilize the existing book-related bibliographic maximally and descriptive metadata in a manner that parallels with the services (both inside the library and outside) as well as exploit to the fullest the full-text search and Semantic Web technologies, standards, and LOD services.…”

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An Overview of the Current State of Linked and Open Data in Cataloging

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Linked Open Data (LOD) is a core Semantic Web technology that makes knowledge and information spaces of different knowledge domains manageable, reusable, shareable, exchangeable, and interoperable. The LOD approach achieves this through the provision of services for describing, indexing, organizing, and retrievingknowledge artifacts and making them available for quick consumption and publication. Thisis also alignedwith the role and objective of traditional library cataloging. Owing to this link, majorlibraries of the world are transferring their bibliographic metadata to the LOD landscape. Some developments in this direction include the replacement of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules 2nd Edition by the Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the trend towards the wideradoption of BIBFRAME 2.0. An interestingand related development in this respect arethe discussions among knowledge resources managers and library community on the possibility of enriching bibliographic metadata with socially curated or user-generated content. The popularity of Linked Open Data and its benefit to librarians and knowledge management professionals warrant a comprehensive survey of the subject. Althoughseveral reviews and survey articles on the application of Linked Data principles to cataloging have appeared in literature, a generic yet holistic review of the current state of Linked and Open Data in cataloging is missing. To fill the gap, the authors have collected recent literature (2014–18) on the current state of Linked Open Data in cataloging to identify research trends, challenges, and opportunities in this area and, in addition, to understand the potential of socially curated metadata in cataloging mainlyin the realm of the Web of Data. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this review article is the first of its kind that holistically treats the subject of cataloging in the Linked and Open Data environment. Some of the findings of the review are: Linked and Open Data is becoming the mainstream trend in library cataloging especially in the major libraries and research projects of the world; with the emergence of Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV), the bibliographic metadata is becoming more meaningful and reusable; and, finally, enriching bibliographic metadata with user-generated content is gaining momentum.Conclusions drawn from the study include the need for a focus on the quality of catalogued knowledge and the reduction of the barriers to the publication and consumption of such knowledge, and the attention on the part of library community to the learning from the successful adoption of LOD in other application domains and contributing collaboratively to the global scale activity of cataloging.

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Library Marc Records Into Linked Open Data: Challenges and Opportunities

Cited by 30 publications

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Diffusion and adoption of Linked Data among libraries

Diffusion and adoption of Linked Data among libraries

Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences

An Overview of the Current State of Linked and Open Data in Cataloging

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