Key Reference Documents
Learning Objectives for the URIs in MARC pilot
PCC Task Group on Linked Data Best Practices: final report
The recommendations in this document are intended to provide guidance to catalogers, application developers, and vendors seeking to enhance their MARC bibliographic data with linked data URIs. The recommendations outline best practices in the following areas:
- Avoiding ambiguity when associating MARC data with URIs
- Parsing MARC data when supplying authority URIs
- Coding subfields $0, $1, and $4
- Providing work identifiers in the 758 field
Key principles outlined by the PCC URI Task Group on URIs in MARC
Formulating and Obtaining URIs: a guide to commonly used vocabularies and reference sources
This document has been established as a guide for metadata practitioners interested in capturing Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs, and specifically HTTP or HTTPS URIs that provision for linked data) from data sources on the web.
OCLC instructions for Adding 588 Pilot Note field in WorldCat
Additional Guidance
The PCC Linked Data Advisory Committee (LDAC) has developed these preliminary criteria for selecting vocabularies to use URIs in our cataloging practices:
- Agency over datasets
- Usefulness of the data
- How connected to other datasets
- Ease of consumption of data
- Reliability of the dataset infrastructure
- Sustainability of the dataset
- Ease of querying the dataset
- Tooling for re-con and ingest
- Ease/support for QA/cleanup
These criteria are somewhat subjective and will require more experience with particular datasets to know what is actually cause for disqualification. Perhaps sooner we’ll be able to see which datasets we want to prioritize, rather than what we object to having in the data. This will be an area that we will learn more about through putting these principles into practice during the Pilot.
Tools
MarcEdit tutorial: a brief demo showing URI reconciliation functionality
- A short video made by Amber Billey for this Pilot as an introduction to this tool. The volume of the audio can be increased by clicking on the Audio Speaker icon and using the scroll bar. Hover in the blank area below the view screen to reveal a Toggle bar that enables you to select the video content on the right pane for larger full screen viewing for the demo video.
MarcEdit MARCNext: Linked Records Tool
- video documentation from the MarcEdit creator, Terry Reese
MarcEdit: Build Links Data tool enhancements
- a blog post from Terry Reese
Authority Toolkit from Gary Strawn slides on downloading and installing new version with URIs functionality
- recordings of two demos by Adam Schiff linked to Pilot meetings page
