Library linked data (LLD) is the use of
linked data
In computing, linked data is structured data which is interlinked with other data so it becomes more useful through semantic queries. It builds upon standard Web technologies such as HTTP, RDF and URIs, but rather than using them to serve web ...
standards by libraries. These standards are usually applied to
bibliographic
Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliograph ...
and
authority
Authority is commonly understood as the legitimate power of a person or group of other people.
In a civil state, ''authority'' may be practiced by legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government,''The New Fontana Dictionary of M ...
data sets, with the hope of decreasing redundant cataloging work; and increasing visibility of library resources and interoperability with non-library systems.
Use cases
In 2010, Byrne and Goddard have written that the "killer
ibrary linked dataexample isn't out there yet," and warned that implementation work will be hampered if clear use cases don't exist.
Many groups have examined this issue, including the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group, the
Bibliographic Framework Initiative, and the LD4L project.
Conferences
* The
Hochschulbibliothekszentrum des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen and the
German National Library of Economics
The National Library of Economics (, "ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics", formerly: ''Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften'') is the world's largest research infrastructure for economic literature, online as ...
sponsor the annual international Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB) conference
See also
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BIBFRAME BIBFRAME (Bibliographic Framework) is a data model for bibliographic description. BIBFRAME was designed to replace the MARC standards, and to use linked data principles to make bibliographic data more useful both within and outside the library c ...
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Resource Description and Access and RDA vocabularies
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Universal Bibliographic Control Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC) was a concept championed by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Under the theoretical UBC, any document would only be cataloged once in its country of origin, and that r ...
References
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Semantic Web
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