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All About Linked Data: How Can it Help My Library?
This free webinar explores the concept of Linked Data, a powerful tool that can make all of your library's assets (materials, events, programs, databases and [...]
Swagger, the API Economy, REST, Linked Data, and a Semantic Web
In this blog post, the author presents the following situation analysis: The network commonly referred to as the World Wide Web (“Web”) is built upon [...]
Desiderata for an authoritative Representation of MeSH in RDF
Although the Semantic Web provides a framework for the integration of resources on the web, datasets are not always made available in RDF by their [...]
Transforming the Medical Subject Headings into Linked Data: a new article in the Journal of Library Metadata
This article reviews the pilot project to convert the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) from XML to Linked Data/RDF. The article examines the collaborative process, the [...]
Semantic Web Misconceptions
The Semantic Web has been talked about for more than a decade. Over those years, several mistaken or misleading ideas about the Semantic Web have [...]
Structured Data Linter
The Structured Data Linter is a tool aiding webmasters and web developers to verify the structured data present in their HTML pages. Search engines use [...]
Structured Data Validator
This validator, one of several Yandex Webmaster tools, allows the user to check the semantic markup of a site to make sure that indexing robots [...]
Europeana: Moving to Linked Data
This article describes the pilot project undertaken by Europeana. Its goal was to replace data societies within the cultural heritage domain with "a distributed information [...]
The Semantic Web and Linked Data Concepts: A Basic Overview Assignment
This assignment covers material presented in the first module of the BIBFRAME pilot training project at the Library of Congress. It consists of links to [...]
The Semantic Web and Linked Data Concepts: A Basic Overview Quiz 1A
This quiz covers material presented in the first module of the BIBFRAME pilot training project at the Library of Congress. The quiz consists of ten [...]