Thursday, January 28, 2010

Transitioning to Semantic Web-Friendly Library Catalogs

Karen Coyle analyzes the current state of library catalog data in the January 2010 issue of Library Technology Reports, "Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata." In this report she offers a history of bibliographic data from its origins to today's digital records and offers guidelines for transforming today's library catalogs into semantic web-friendly ones. The first chapter, entitled Library Data in a Modern Context, is accessible free of charge at this URL:
http://alatechsource.metapress.com/content/p3022442071g7655/fulltext.html. Coyle is following up on this report with another that will be published as LTR's February issue, entitled "RDA Vocabularies for a Twenty-First-Century Data Environment."

This information is courtesy of Law Librarian Blog and ALA TechSource.

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