num_pages: 176
description: Linked data has become a punchline in certain circles of the GLAM (galleries libraries archives and museums) community derided as a much-hyped project that will ultimately never come to fruition. But the fact is linked data is already happening now evident in projects from Big Tech and the Wikimedia Foundation as well as the web pages of library service platforms. The goal of exposing cultural institutions' records to the web is as important as everbut for the non-technically minded linked data can feel like a confusing morass of abstraction jargon and acronyms. Get conversant in linked data with this basic introduction from the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). The books expert contributors This valuable primer on linked data will enable readers at any level of experience to get quickly up to speed on this important subject.
language: English
title: Linked Data for the Perplexed Librarian
publisher: ALA Editions