Linked Library Data: Offering a Backbone for the Semantic Web

Abstract

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Name Authority Control in Digital Humanities: Building a Name Authority Database of Shanghai Library

“…More importantly, the "[l]ibrary data tends to be of very high quality, being collected, revised and maintained by trained professionals" (Hannemann & Kett, 2010, p. 2). The name authority files are valuable sources that offer a backbone for the Semantic Web (Neubert & Tochtermann, 2012).…”

How Science 2.0 will impact on scientific libraries

“…All technologies and semantic models already exist to make this vision become reality. Since at least 2012, scientific libraries have not only published their metadata (represented in RDF, the Resource Description Framework) and thesauri (represented in SKOS, the Simple Knowledge Organization System) in the LOD but have also established cross-concordances between their thesauri [24,26].…”

LOD for Library Science: Benefits of Applying Linked Open Data in the Digital Library Setting

“…However, manual alignment is very expensive and not possible when merging large datasets. For example, in the context of library sciences there are data sources providing information about persons of sizes ranging from 364, 000 in DBpedia, 1, 797, 911 in the German National Library Authority File, 3, 800, 000 in the Library of Congress, and 10 million in the Virtual International Authority File 20 (VIAF) [23]. VIAF combines multiple name authority files of different national libraries.…”