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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, 2021October 23, 2023Data, 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

Infrastructure for heritage institutions – ARK PID’s

In the Digital Infrastructure program at the Library of the University of Amsterdam we have reached a first milestone. In my previous post in the Infrastructure for heritage institutions series, “Change of course“, I mentioned the coming implementation of ARK persistent identifiers for our collection objects. Since November […]

November 3, 2020November 11, 2020Data, Infrastructure, Libraryinfrastructure, interoperability, library systems, persistent identifiers

Infrastructure for heritage institutions – first results

In July 2019 I published the post Infrastructure for heritage institutions in which I described our planning to realise a “coherent and future proof digital infrastructure” for the Library of the University of Amsterdam. Time to look back: how far have we come? And time to look forward: what’s in […]

February 24, 2020February 25, 2020Data, Infrastructure, Libraryinfrastructure, interoperability, library, library systems, licensing, persistent identifiers

Infrastructure for heritage institutions

During my vacation I saw this tweet by LIBER about topics to address, as suggested by the participants of the LIBER 2019 conference in Dublin: It shows a word cloud (yes, a word cloud) containing a large number of terms. I list the ones I can read without […]

July 11, 2019January 11, 2020Data, Infrastructure, Libraryconferences, cultural heritage, data management, ETL, FAIR, IIIF, infrastructure, interoperability, LIBER, library systems, persistent identifiers

Maps, dictionaries and guidebooks

Interoperability in heterogeneous library data landscapes Libraries have to deal with a highly opaque landscape of heterogeneous data sources, data types, data formats, data flows, data transformations and data redundancies, which I have earlier characterized as a “data maze”. The level and magnitude of this opacity and heterogeneity […]