Key Background Documents
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.
Tools
MarcEdit tutorial (brief video showing URI reconciliation functionality) from Amber Billey
