Library linked data in the cloud
Subtitle: OCLC's experiments with new models of resource description
By: Carol Jean Godby, Shenghui Wang, and Jeffrey K. Mixter, OCLC Research
Contributors: Wang, Shenghui (Computer scientist), author; Mixter, Jeffrey, author; OCLC Research
Series: Synthesis lectures on the semantic web: theory and technology -- #9; Synthesis lectures on the semantic web, theory and technology -- #12.
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: San Rafael, California]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781627052207; 9781627052191
Subjects: Linked data; RDF (Document markup language); Libraries and the Internet; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Library & Information Science; General; OCLC
Description: This book describes OCLC's contributions to the transformation of the Internet from a web of documents to a Web of Data. The new Web is a growing "cloud" of interconnected resources that identify the things people want to know about when they approach the Internet with an information need. The linked data architecture has achieved critical mass just as it has become clear that library standards for resource description are nearing obsolescence. Working for the world's largest library cooperative, OCLC researchers have been active participants in the development of next-generation standards for library resource description. By engaging with an international community of library and Web standards experts, they have published some of the most widely used RDF datasets representing library collections and librarianship.
Notes: Series numbering should read: #12.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-137).

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Library standards and the Semantic Web; title: Modeling library authority files; title: Modeling and discovering creative works; title: Entity identification through text mining; title: The library linked data cloud; title: Bibliography; title: Authors' biographies.