Linked data: the future of library cataloging – OCLC
A new way to advance libraries
As the volume and variety of online information – both valuable and suspect – increases, good metadata is more important than ever. Our communities and institutions need people with the knowledge and expertise to connect library resources to the wider knowledge ecosystem.
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Linked data is a way to organise and connect data on the web so it can be easily, automatically, and programmatically shared and used by various systems and services. Linked data breaks up the valuable, library-focused data locked in MARC records and publishes it using uniform resource identifiers (URIs).
Different language versions of this key white paper available at https://www.oclc.org/go/en/