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1. They leverage the unique value that librarians and scholars add to materials when they select, annotate, or reference the resources.
2. They clearly demonstrate the value in combining data from our three different institutions - ideally in a way that shows how that value will grow as more institutions join in.
3. They leverage existing efforts in this space, specifically including VIAF, SNAC, BIBFRAME, and existing faculty profiling systems like CAP, Profiles, and VIVO
4. They show examples from a variety of disciplines.
5. They demonstrate value for teaching and learning; scientific research; research in the humanities; and archival research.
6. They cover a broad range of scholarly information resource types: articles, monographs, images, datasets, archival materials, cultural materials, etc.
7. They show interesting ways to use the aggregated data for analysis or visualization.
8. They take advantage of data on how the materials are being used.

We do also need to be careful about not putting in effort in areas where other projects are already working or areas that don't leverage the unique attributes of library data sources. Here are some non-goals:

1. We need to be careful about depending on external, non-institutional sources of linked data.

Use Cases (suggestions, in draft form)

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