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Welcome to Linked Data for Production. With the support of a $1.5 million dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, LD4P is a collaboration between six institutions the LD4P partners (Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Library of Congress, Princeton, and Stanford University) to begin the transition of technical services production workflows to ones based in Linked Open Data (LOD). This first phase of the transition will focus on the development of the ability to produce metadata as LOD communally, the extension of the BIBFRAME ontology to encompass the many resource formats that libraries must process, and the engagement of the / Directory of team members) are piloting the production of linked data for library resources. Over a two-year period (2016-2018), our work focuses on:

• developing standards, guidelines, and infrastructure to communally produce metadata as linked open data,
• developing end-to-end workflows to create linked data in a technical services production environment, 
• extending the BIBFRAME ontology to describe library resources in specialized domains and formats, and
• engaging the broader library community to ensure a sustainable and extensible environment.

Go to LD4L Wiki Gateway

Project Pages

• Project Proposal
  • Background 
  • Rationale
  • Projects
    • LD4P Program
    • Columbia
    • Cornell
    • Harvard
    • Library of Congress
    • Princeton
    • Stanford

• Communications and Outreach
  • Press Releases
  • Presentations
• PCC.  The Program for Cooperative Cataloging is partnering with LD4P and the work of its committees will complement the work of LD4P projects.
  • The Importance of Identifiers in the New Web Environment and Using the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) in Subfield Zero ($0): A Small Step That Is Actually a Big Step by Jackie Shieh and Terry Reese
  • Steven Folsom's Presentation on the Work of the PCC Task Group on URIs in MARC  (download to see speaker notes)
    
• Related Projects
  • BIBFLOW
  • Western Name Authority File
  • National Strategy for Shareable Local Name Authorities
  • Linked Open Data for Special Collections
• LD4Star-Related Conferences

Working Documents

• Working Groups
• Meeting Reports
• Project Updates (Coming soon)

Registry of Tools

While each partner institution leads its own domain-specific ontology extension and metadata production projects, the partners collaborate closely with one another and with the Mellon-funded Linked Data for Libraries-Labs (LD4L-Labs) project on modeling a general-purpose extension to BIBFRAME, developing best practices for ontology extension modeling and for linked data production, evaluating linked data tools, and prototyping an infrastructure for cooperative production of linked data.

Cross-domain ontology modeling and metadata production

Domain-specific ontology modeling and metadata production

Tools

LD4P provides input to the Linked Data for Libraries-Labs (LD4L-Labs) project on the development of VitroLib, a linked data editor for libraries, and the LD4L-Labs Converter. LD4P is evaluating several other linked data tools (see our Registry of Tools), including the Library of Congress BIBFRAME Editor and Converter.

The Biblioportal ontology repository is a library-specific implementation of Stanford University's BioPortal.

Learn More

• LD4P Presentations and Publications
• Upcoming Conferences Related to Linked Data (includes planned attendance by LD4P and LD4L-Labs members)
• LD4P Grant Proposal
• LD4 Workshop 2018
• LD4P / LD4L-Labs Community Input Meeting, April 24-25, 2017
• Linked Data for Production Report, April 2016 (First All-Hands Meeting)

Contact Us

email ld4p-program at stanford dot edu

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