Archives and Special Collections Linked Data

Archives and Special Collections Linked Data
Author: OCLC Research. Archives and Special Collections Linked Data Review Group
Publisher:
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2020
Genre: Archival linked data
ISBN: 9781556531552

"As libraries and other cultural heritage organizations plot a course to move toward a linked data future, it is important to ensure that all collections are represented in that future. While published works represented in monographs may be relatively easy to represent in linked data, this is not the case for special collections materials (rare books, manuscripts, photographs, institutional archives, etc.) that may be unique or may have special physical characteristics that are of particular interest for study. To help fill this knowledge gap, the OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) convened an archives and special collections linked data review group. The RLP group was supported by OCLC Research and OCLC Global Product Management Staff. Because OCLC Research has a long and strong history of working both on behalf of the archives and special collections community and on behalf of the larger library community in linked data, taking on the issue of special collections and linked data under the auspices of the RLP was a natural fit"--Page 5.

Ethics in Linked Data

Ethics in Linked Data
Author: Kathleen Burlingame
Publisher: Library Juice Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781634001335

Linked Data for the Perplexed Librarian

Linked Data for the Perplexed Librarian
Author: Scott Carlson
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020-02-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838947463

This valuable primer on linked data will enable readers at any level of experience to get quickly up to speed on this important subject.

New Directions for Special Collections

New Directions for Special Collections
Author: Lynne M. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2016-10-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440842914

Addressing the most exciting and challenging areas in the profession, this text will be invaluable to any professional looking ahead to the future of special collections and related cultural heritage work. Special collections today—from rare books and other specialized book collections to audio recordings and visual images—offer librarians limitless opportunities to showcase their skills in curating, preserving, and offering access to these resources to patrons. Drawing on innovative practices and enduring values to address challenges and opportunities in the broad realm of special collections librarianship, this book updates the notion of special collections to the wide range of materials, institutions, and contexts where they exist today. The contributed essays describe the various kinds of innovative projects and practices that are sought by IMLS and other funding agencies today and serve to illustrate how going beyond a traditionally limited idea of special collections opens doors to far more engaging opportunities. Spanning the converging worlds of academic and special libraries, rare book collections, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions, this book will be useful to newcomers and seasoned professionals alike. The essays address the recurring themes of managing and welcoming change and the impact of digital technologies throughout the book, whether regarding new approaches to outreach and instruction, the acquisition and curation of non-traditional collections, new structures for discovery and access in a digital world, or the nature of special collections work now. Both experienced professionals and recent graduates from one of the booming archival studies programs will find this text invaluable in creating a successful career in special collections or cultural heritage curation today and in the near future.

Organization, Representation and Description through the Digital Age

Organization, Representation and Description through the Digital Age
Author: Christine M. Angel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2018-03-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110395991

Cataloging standards practiced within the traditional library, archive and museum environments are not interoperable for the retrieval of objects within the shared online environment. Within today’s information environments, library, archive and museum professionals are becoming aware that all information objects can be linked together. In this way, information professionals have the opportunity to collaborate and share data together with the shard online cataloging environment, the end result being improved retrieval effectiveness. But the adaptation has been slow: Libraries, archives and museums are still operating within their own community-specific cataloging practices. This book provides a historical perspective of the evolution of linking devices within the library, archive, and museums environments, and captures current cataloging practices in these fields. It offers suggestions for moving beyond community-specific cataloging principles and thus has the potential of becoming a springboard for further conversation and the sharing of ideas.

Library Linked Data in the Cloud

Library Linked Data in the Cloud
Author: Carol Jean Godby
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2015-05-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1627052208

This book describes OCLC’s contributions to the transformation of the Internet from a web of documents to a Web of Data. The new Web is a growing ‘cloud’ of interconnected resources that identify the things people want to know about when they approach the Internet with an information need. The linked data architecture has achieved critical mass just as it has become clear that library standards for resource description are nearing obsolescence. Working for the world’s largest library cooperative, OCLC researchers have been active participants in the development of next generation standards for library resource description. By engaging with an international community of library and Web standards experts, they have published some of the most widely used RDF datasets representing library collections and librarianship. This book focuses on the conceptual and technical challenges involved in publishing linked data derived from traditional library metadata. This transformation is a high priority because most searches for information start not in the library, nor even in a Web-accessible library catalog, but elsewhere on the Internet. Modeling data in a form that the broader Web understands will project the value of libraries into the Digital Information Age. The exposition is aimed at librarians, archivists, computer scientists, and other professionals interested in modeling bibliographic descriptions as linked data. It aims to achieve a balanced treatment of theory, technical detail, and practical application.

Description

Description
Author: Kate Theimer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0810890941

Description: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special Collections explores how archives of different sizes and types can enhance the accessibility of their holdings. The book uses eleven case studies to demonstrate innovative ideas that could be transferred into many other settings. Case studies cover Crowdsourcing the Description of Collections Early Experiences with Implementing EAC-CPF Conducting a Comprehensive Survey to Reveal a Hidden Repository Getting a Diverse Backlog of Legacy Finding Aids Online A Collaborative Standards-Based Approach to Creating Item-Level Metadata for Digitized Archival Materials Creating Policies and Procedures for Mandatory Arrangement and Description by Records Creators Collaboration in Cataloging: Sourcing Knowledge from Near and Far for a Challenging Collection Using LibGuides to Rescue Paper Ephemera from the Bibliographic Underbrush Describing Records, People, Organizations and Functions: The Empowering the User Project’s Flexible Archival Catalogue Integrating Born-Digital Materials into Regular Workflows Describing Single Items for Discovery and Access These successful and innovative practices will help archivists and special collections librarians better describe their collections so that they can be successfully accessed and users can locate the right materials. Readers can use these as models, sources of inspiration, or starting points for new discussions. The volume will be useful to those working in archives and special collections as well as other cultural heritage organizations, and provides ideas ranging from those that require long-term planning and coordination to ones that could be immediately implemented. It also provides students and educators in archives, library, and public history graduate programs a resource for understanding the variety of ways materials are being described in the field today and the kinds of strategies archivists are using to ensure collections can be found by the people who want to use them.

Metadata for Digital Collections

Metadata for Digital Collections
Author: Steven Jack Miller
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2022-07-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838938019

Since it was first published, LIS students and professionals everywhere have relied on Miller’s authoritative manual for clear instruction on the real-world practice of metadata design and creation. Now the author has given his text a top to bottom overhaul to bring it fully up to date, making it even easier for readers to acquire the knowledge and skills they need, whether they use the book on the job or in a classroom. By following this book’s guidance, with its inclusion of numerous practical examples that clarify common application issues and challenges, readers will learn about the concept of metadata and its functions for digital collections, why it’s essential to approach metadata specifically as data for machine processing, and how metadata can work in the rapidly developing Linked Data environment; know how to create high-quality resource descriptions using widely shared metadata standards, vocabularies, and elements commonly needed for digital collections; become thoroughly familiarized with Dublin Core (DC) through exploration of DCMI Metadata Terms, CONTENTdm best practices, and DC as Linked Data; discover what Linked Data is, how it is expressed in the Resource Description Framework (RDF), and how it works in relation to specific semantic models (typically called “ontologies”) such as BIBFRAME, comprised of properties and classes with “domain” and “range” specifications; get to know the MODS and VRA Core metadata schemes, along with recent developments related to their use in a Linked Data setting; understand the nuts and bolts of designing and documenting a metadata scheme; and gain knowledge of vital metadata interoperability and quality issues, including how to identify and clean inconsistent, missing, and messy metadata using innovative tools such as OpenRefine.

The Special Collections Handbook

The Special Collections Handbook
Author: Alison Cullingford
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2016-12-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783301260

This comprehensive and no-nonsense guide to working with special collections and rare books is an essential day-to-day companion. Working with special collections can vary dramatically from preserving a single rare book to managing and digitizing vast mixed-media archives, yet the role of the information professional is always critical in tapping into the potential of these collections, protecting their legacy and bringing them to the attention of the wider public. This book offers up-to-date guidance which pulls together insights from best practice across the heritage sector to build innovative, co-operative and questioning mind-sets that will help them to cope in turbulent times. The Handbook covers all aspects of special collections work: preservation, developing collections, understanding objects, emergency planning, security, legal and ethical concerns, cataloguing, digitization, marketing, outreach, teaching, impact, advocacy and fundraising. New to this edition: coverage of new standards and concepts including unique and distinctive collections (UDCs), The Leeds Typology, Archive Accreditation, PD 5454:2012 and PAS 197 discussion of the major changes to laws affecting special collections including UK copyright law relating to library/archive exception and orphan works and forthcoming changes to data protection in the EU exploration of new trends in research including the rise of digital humanities, open access, the impact agenda and the REF updates to the sections on marketing, audience development and fundraising to include social media, customer journey mapping and crowdsourcing and more consideration of impact and indicators, digitization and new skills frameworks from CILIP and RBMS. This is the essential practical guide for anyone working with special collections or rare books in libraries, archives, museums, galleries and other heritage organizations. It is also a useful introduction to special collections work for academics and students taking library and information courses.

Subject Description and Discovery

Subject Description and Discovery
Author: Allison Jai O'Dell
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2033-03-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781440850172

Subject Description and Discovery: Access to Archives and Special Collections on the Semantic Web is the first book on subject cataloging and creating subject-level access to materials in archives and special collections to incorporate recent developments in cataloging theory and standards. As such, it provides up-to-date explanations on how to tackle these challenges in the 21st-century world that will serve practicing librarians and archivists, instructors and students, as well as web and database developers. The book provides a holistic overview of subject description and access in three sections. The first part addresses abstracting and indexing, the second covers controlled vocabularies, and the last focuses on discovery. Each section begins with a tutorial on basic principles, followed by an in-depth discussion of the issues, trends, and technologies that both challenge and reinvigorate traditional practice. The book provides detailed guidance on important topics like Linked Open Data, folksonomies, user contributions, and web-based discovery. It also includes tutorials with advanced discussion of issues in indexing and abstracting practice, publication and application of controlled vocabularies, and the design and development of front-end interfaces.