This session will talk about various SIL projects and initiatives (such as the FAST headings project and the introduction of Wikidata and WikiBase); how to incorporate linked data elements into MARC records; and how to develop staff and give them proficiency with new tools and workflows.

1. Practical approaches to
Linked Data
Jeannie Hartley
Friends University
and
Heidy Berthoud
The Smithsonian
June 9 2020

2. INTRODUCTION
 What is Linked Data? (Gonzales, 2014; Guerrini & Possemato, 2013)
 Semantic Web (Guerrini & Possemato, 2013)
 Tim Berners-Lee’s TED Talk: The Next Web of Open, Linked Data
 Relationships between data
https://medium.com/library-link-network

3. SETTING UP LIBRARY RECORDS
 Coding standards (Szeto, 2017)
 RDA MARC – Resource Description and Access Machine
Readable Catalog records
 RDF – Resource Description Framework
 BIBFRAME - https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/
 URI FAQs -
https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/bibframe/TaskGroups/URI%
20FAQs.pdf
 MarcEdit 7 – 2018 NASIG Preconference “The Now and
Future of MarcEdit: A Day-Long Workshop” With Terry
Reese and Erik Bergstrom

4. RULES FOR THE SEMANTIC WEB
 Use Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
 Use HTTP URIs
 Useful information
 Include links to other URIs (Mitchell, 2014)

5. LINKED
OPEN
DATA
DIAGRAM
Richard Cyganiak and Anja
Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/

6. BENEFITS
 Interoperable information (TED, 2009)
 Increased richness of data (Gonzales, 2014)
 Geolocation data (Mitchell, 2016; Pesch & Miller, 2016)
 Conversion tools (Library of Congress, 2018)

7. CHALLENGES
 Preparing library records (Schreur, 2018)
 Relationship designators (Goldberga et al., 2018)
 Data conversion (Guerrini & Possemato, 2013)
 Transitioning cataloging standards (Arlitsch, 2017;
Gonzales, 2014)
 Confusion about what to do in general (Arlitsch et al.,
2017)

8. THINGS TO REMEMBER
 No one standard will be perfect (Goldberga et al., 2018;
Schreur, 2018)
 Library relevance
 Extending digital library presence
 Unexpected challenges

9. ONGOING AND FULLY IMPLEMENTED LD
PROJECTS
 BIBFRAME experiment and dbpedia.com (Pesch & Miller,
2016)
 Linked Data for Production (LD4P) (Schreur, 2018)
 RunA (Goldberga et al., 2018)
 the Bibliographic Framework Initiative or the BIBFRAME
Initiative (Library of Congress, 2018)
 Open Linked Data Project (Guerrini & Possemato, 2013)
 PCC URIs in MARC at the Smithsonian

10. REFERENCES
Arlitsch, K. (2017). Semantic web identity of academic libraries. Journal of
Library Administration, 57(3), 346-358.
doi:10.1080/01930826.2017.1288970
Arlitsch, K., Melanie, H., McKelvey, H., Gollehon, M., & Zauha, J. (2017).
Digitizing the Ivan Doig archive at Montana State University: A rise to the
challenge illustrates creative tension. Journal of Library
Administration, 57(1), 99-113.
Dbpedia. (2020, April) Interlinking. Retrieved from: https://lod-cloud.net
Goldberga, A., Kreislere, M., Rašmane, A., Stūrmane, A., & Salna, E. (2018).
Identification of entities in the linked data collection "Rainis and Aspazija"
(RunA). Italian Journal of Library, Archives & Information Science, 9(1), 83.
doi:10.4403/jlis.it-12444
Gonzales, B. B. (2014). Linking libraries to the web: Linked data and the future
of the bibliographic record. Information Technology & Libraries, 33(4),
10-22.

11. REFERENCES
Guerrini, M. M., & Possemato, T. T. (2013). Linked data: A new alphabet for
the semantic web. Italian Journal of Library, Archives & Information
Science, 4(1), 67-90.
Library of Congress. (2020, April). Bibliographic framework initiative. Retrieved
from: https://www.loc.gov/bibframe/
Mitchell, E. T. (2014). Library linked data: research and adoption. Retrieved
from: https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.library.valdosta.edu
Mitchell, E. T. (2016). Library linked data: Early activity and
development. Library Technology Reports, 52(1), 5-33.
Pesch, O., & Miller, E. (2016). Using BIBFRAME and library linked data to solve
real problems: An interview with Eric Miller of Zepheira. Serials
Librarian, 71(1), 1-8. doi:10.1080/0361526X.2016.1183159
Reese, T., and Bergstrom, E. (2019) The now and future of MarcEdit: A day-long
workshop. Serials Librarian, 76(1-4, 3-8) pages.

12. REFERENCES
Schreur, P. P. (2018). RDA, linked data, and the end of average. Italian Journal of
Library, Archives & Information Science, 9(1), 120-127.
TED (2009, March 13). Tim Berners-Lee: The next web of open, linked data
[Video file]. Retrieved from:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM6XIICm_qo
URI FAQs (September 2018) Retrieved from:
https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/bibframe/TaskGroups/URI%20FAQs.pdf
W3Schools. (2018, June). XML RDF. Retrieved from:
https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_rdf.asp