[Yulcat-l] From Records to Things: Managing the Transition from Legacy Library Metadata to Linked Data

[Bolkovac, Eva]

New article from OCLC Research Jean Godby and Karen Smith-Yoshimura:

http://hangingtogether.org/?p=5765


>From the editor's summary:

A basic requirement for linked data is that records include structured and clear data about topics of interest or searched Things, formatted in ways that allow linking to other data. While linked data presents great potential for the library community, libraries' existing digital knowledge is largely inaccessible, stuck in the increasingly obsolete MARC format, readable only by humans and certain library systems. To maximize the value of linked data using library content, important entities and relationships must be defined and made available, codings that are machine understandable must be adapted for linked data purposes, and persistent identifiers must be substituted for text.


Éva

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