Mitchell, E: Library Linked Data

Library Technology Reports (vol.49, no.5) "Library Linked Data: Research and Adoption" by Erik T. Mitchell examines the advances in metadata in libraries, considering also the work done in the archival and museum communities. It 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. The report 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.