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- the creation of a continuously fed pool of linked data expressed in BIBFRAME from a core group of academic libraries
- development of a cloud-based sandbox editing environment in support of an expanded cohort of libraries to create and reuse linked data
- the development of policies, techniques and workflows for the automated enhancement of MARC data with identifiers to make its conversion to linked data as clean as possible
- the development of policies, techniques, and workflows for the creation and reuse of linked data and its supporting identifiers as libraries’ core metadata
- better integration of library metadata and identifiers with the Web through collaboration with Wikidata
- the enhancement of a widely-adopted library discovery environment (Blacklight) with linked-data based discovery techniques
- the orchestration of continued community collaboration through the development of an organizational framework called LD4, ensuring continued exchange of ideas and techniques across a distributed developing community.
These seven goals will be realized through six work packages
- the collaborative creation of new metadata in a cloud environment in partnership with the PCC
- the development of techniques for the reuse of pre-existing metadata
- linkage to external authorities and web context (e.g. Wikipedia)
- enhancing discovery
- production workflows for native linked data descriptions
- transferring our accumulated experience with this technology to a community of collaborators
Collaboration will be key in this phase of LD4P, both internal and external. The partners will be collaborating on the development of the cloud environment and Blacklight, the Library of Congress, and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging will collaborate with the project through training in the use of the BIBFRAME Editor, Harvard will foster a close relationship with the PCC in the development of policy decisions, and the core institutions will collaborate with Wikidata in the publishing, linking, and enriching linked data through the Wikimedian-In-Residence program.
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