TY - GEN
T1 - A review of practices for transforming library legacy records into linked open data
AU - Chen, Ya Ning
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Current practices for transforming library legacy records into linked data for libraries were studied. The Linked Data Cookbook released by W3C was used as an analytical framework. A total of sixteen library linked data case studies focused on converting library catalogue data into linked open data were selected as subjects to analyze the details of transformation according to the following categories: identifying data, modeling data, naming with URIs, reusing existing terms, publishing human and machine readable descriptions, RDF conversion, license, download, host and announcement. It was found that although most tasks defined by the Linked Data Cookbook were adopted, some extensions and refinements were adopted to meet specific library-oriented requirements. Related issues including selection of data, selection of terms, 1-to-1 mapping principle and long-term preservation of library linked data are discussed.
AB - Current practices for transforming library legacy records into linked data for libraries were studied. The Linked Data Cookbook released by W3C was used as an analytical framework. A total of sixteen library linked data case studies focused on converting library catalogue data into linked open data were selected as subjects to analyze the details of transformation according to the following categories: identifying data, modeling data, naming with URIs, reusing existing terms, publishing human and machine readable descriptions, RDF conversion, license, download, host and announcement. It was found that although most tasks defined by the Linked Data Cookbook were adopted, some extensions and refinements were adopted to meet specific library-oriented requirements. Related issues including selection of data, selection of terms, 1-to-1 mapping principle and long-term preservation of library linked data are discussed.
KW - Library legacy records
KW - Library linked data
KW - Linked open data
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85036616253
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-70863-8_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-70863-8_12
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85036616253
SN - 9783319708621
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 123
EP - 133
BT - Metadata and Semantic Research - 11th International Conference, MTSR 2017, Proceedings
A2 - Koutsomiha, Damiana
A2 - Garoufallou, Emmanouel
A2 - Siatri, Rania
A2 - Virkus, Sirje
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 11th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2017
Y2 - 28 November 2017 through 1 December 2017
ER -