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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

FRBR outside the box

Shifting focus from information carriers back to information This blog post is based on a presentation I did at Datasalon 6 in Brussels, January 21, 2011. Library catalogues have traditionally been used to describe and register books and journals and other physical objects that together constitute the […]

September 2, 2011November 5, 2024Librarycatalog, frbr, libraries, library systems, linked data, marc, metadata, rda

Missing links

The challenges of generating linked data from legacy databases Some time ago I wrote a blog post about the linked data proof of concept project I am involved in, connecting bibliographic metadata from the OPAC of the Library of the University of Amsterdam with the theatre performances […]

March 28, 2011November 5, 2024Librarycultural heritage, foaf, frbr, libraries, linked data, marc, metadata, rdf, theatre, tin, uba, uri

Mobile reading

New models, new formats Recently I have been experimenting a bit with reading newspapers on my mobile phone (a G1 android device), or maybe I should say “reading news on my mobile”. I looked at two Dutch newspapers that adopt two completely different approaches. “NRC Handelsblad” publishes it’s […]

January 22, 2010November 5, 2024Librarye-books, e-papers, e-readers, epub, frbr, hardware, marc, mobi, mobile, newspapers, pdf

Is an e-book a book?

About cataloging physical items or units of content 2009 is the year of the e-book, or perhaps better: of the e-book reader. This is an important distinction that I will explain below. E-books are becoming more popular because of the increasing availability of various cheap e-book readers. But […]

November 19, 2009November 5, 2024Librarybooks, doi, e-books, frbr, marc

Linked Data for Libraries

Linked Data and bibliographic metadata models Some time after I wrote “UMR – Unified Metadata Resources“, I came across Chris Keene’s post “Linked data & RDF : draft notes for comment“, “just a list of links and notes” about Linked Data, RDF and the Semantic Web, put […]