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Linked Data for Libraries

June 19, 2009January 12, 2020 Lukas KosterLibrary

Linked Data and bibliographic metadata models Some time after I wrote “UMR – Unified Metadata Resources“, I came across Chris Keene’s post “Linked data & RDF : draft notes for comment“, “just a list of links and notes” about Linked Data, RDF and the Semantic Web, put together to start collecting information about “a topic that will greatly impact on the Library / Information management world“. While reading this post and working my way […]

UMR – Unified Metadata Resources

April 12, 2009January 12, 2020 Lukas KosterLibrary

One single web page as the single identifier of every book, author or subject I like the concept of “the web as common publication platform for libraries“, and “every book its own url“, as described by Owen Stephens in two blog posts: “Its time to change library systems “ I’d suggest what we really need to think about is a common ‘publication’ platform – a way of all of our systems outputting records in a […]