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Infrastructure for heritage institutions – Open and Linked Data

In my June 2020 post in this series, “Infrastructure for heritage institutions – change of course ” , I said: “The results of both Data Licences and the Data Quality projects (Object PID’s, Controlled Vocabularies, Metadata Set) will go into the new Data Publication project, which will be undertaken […]

June 1, 2021November 5, 2024Data, Infrastructure, Libraryapi's, ARK, authority files, Catmandu, collections, content negotiation, DC, EDM, ETL, heritage, infrastructure, interoperability, LAM, library systems, licensing, linked data, marc, metadata, OAI, open data, persistent identifiers, rdf, Triply

Local library data in the new global framework

2011 has in a sense been the year of library linked data. Not that libraries of all kinds are now publishing and consuming linked data in great numbers. No. But we have witnessed the publication of the final report of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group, the […]

January 5, 2012November 5, 2024Libraryauthority files, bibligraphic framework, bibliographic formats, catalog, frbr, innovation, integration, libraries, library systems, linked data, metadata, rdf, semantic web

Who needs MARC?

Why use a non-normalised metadata exchange format for suboptimal data storage? This week I had a nice chat with André Keyzer of Groningen University library and Peter van Boheemen of Wageningen University Library who attended OCLC’s Amsterdam Mashathon 2009. As can be expected from library technology geeks, we […]

May 15, 2009November 5, 2024Generalaacr2, authority files, bibliographic formats, dublin core, exlibris, formats, library systems, mab, metadata, metalib, openurl, pica+, rda, sfx, sru, srw

UMR – Unified Metadata Resources

One single web page as the single identifier of every book, author or subject I like the concept of “the web as common publication platform for libraries“, and “every book its own url“, as described by Owen Stephens in two blog posts: “Its time to change library systems […]

April 12, 2009November 5, 2024Libraryauthority files, frbr, identifiers, metadata, open access, semantic web, uri, web2.0, web3.0