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Coyle's InFormation: Is Linked Data the Answer? - 0 views

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Professional Development linked data library libraries metadata

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 24 Oct 12 - No Cached

What this means for us in libraries is that we shouldn't be thinking that linked data will replace bibliographic data. It will encode the aspects of bibliographic data that will give us the most and the best links.
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Jennifer Parsons on 24 Oct 12

Karen Coyle's answer is, "Yes, but it can't be an end of itself." She gives a very nice imaging of what linked library data could possibly do.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Karen Coyle's answer is, "Yes, but it can't be an end of itself." She gives a very nice imaging of what linked library data could possibly do.</div>

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Library catalog metadata: Open licensing or public domain? - Creative Commons - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Parsons on 31 Aug 12 - No Cached

Jennifer Parsons on 31 Aug 12

Creative Commons weighs in on OCLC's recommendation that its members adopt the Open Data Commons Attribution license (linked in the article) for the catalog metadata they share in OCLC. While CC commends OCLC for encouraging the sharing of data, it points out that a license, even an open data license, can prove problematic when it comes to reusing and recombining data found within OCLC with other sources.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Creative Commons weighs in on OCLC's recommendation that its members adopt the Open Data Commons Attribution license (linked in the article) for the catalog metadata they share in OCLC. While CC commends OCLC for encouraging the sharing of data, it points out that a license, even an open data license, can prove problematic when it comes to reusing and recombining data found within OCLC with other sources. </div>

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Wikidata - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Parsons on 07 Dec 12 - No Cached

Wikidata is a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike. It is for data what Wikimedia Commons is for media files: it centralizes access and management of structured data, such as interwiki references and statistical information. Wikidata contains data in all languages for which there are Wikimedia projects
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Jennifer Parsons on 07 Dec 12

This is a cool idea-- basically, it's a way to link the data in Wikipedia across languages to cut down on redundancy and help the information flow across language barriers.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is a cool idea-- basically, it's a way to link the data in Wikipedia across languages to cut down on redundancy and help the information flow across language barriers.</div>

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As Libraries Go Digital, Sharing of Data Is at Odds With Tradition of Privacy - 0 views

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shared by Megan Durham on 06 Nov 12 - No Cached

Megan Durham on 06 Nov 12

Harvard librarians learned that lesson when they set up Twitter feeds broadcasting titles of books being checked out from campus libraries. It seemed harmless enough-a typical tweet read, "Reconstructing American Law by Bruce A. Ackerman," with a link to the book's library catalog entry-but the social-media experiment turned out to be more provocative than library staffers imagined.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Harvard librarians learned that lesson when they set up Twitter feeds broadcasting titles of books being checked out from campus libraries. It seemed harmless enough-a typical tweet read, "Reconstructing American Law by Bruce A. Ackerman," with a link to the book's library catalog entry-but the social-media experiment turned out to be more provocative than library staffers imagined.</div>

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