"July 2013"--Cover. ALA TechSource is a unit of the publishing department of the American Library Association. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Chapter 4. Tools and data used in this issue. A brief history of LAM metadata ; The motivation for a new approach to metadata ; A general framework for discussing metadata -- Chapter 2. Building blocks of linked open data in libraries: What is linked open data? -- Chapter 3. Three case studies in linked open data: BIBFRAME ; The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) ; Europeana -- Chapter 4. Issues, opportunities, and trends in metadata: Data analysis ; Discussion ; Tools and data used in this issue.
Summary:
"...Examines the advances in metadata in libraries, considering also the work done in the archival and museum communities...looks at linked open data and linked open vocabularies through the lens of five building blocks of metadata: data model, content rules, metadata schema, data serialization, and data exchange... [and] includes three case studies of current projects: the Europeana digital library, museum, and archive; the Digital Public Library of America; and the BIBFRAME initiative, guided by the Library of Congress"--T.p. verso.
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