Keeping Libraries Relevant in the Semantic Web with RDA: Resource Description and Access
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First appeared in Serials , November 2011 issue, Volume 24, No. 3, doi: 10.1629/24266.
First appeared in
New Directions in Information Organization
ISBN: 978-1-78190-559-3, eISBN: 978-1-78190-560-9
Publication date: 8 July 2013
Abstract
Purpose
To raise consciousness among librarians and library directors about the need to structure our descriptive data for library resources in a way that is machine-actionable in the Semantic Web, not just the library silos of MARC-based systems.
Design/methodology/approach
Narrative overview.
Social implications
By assuring library metadata is in a well-formed structure, libraries can place access to their collections on the Web where their users are.
Findings
The new cataloging code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), is one step in the direction toward more interoperability in the Semantic Web.
Originality/value
New perspective on this issue is to urge librarians to work with systems people and vendors for next generation systems that build on the relationships and identifying characteristics of well-formed metadata arising from use of the RDA.
Citation
Tillett, B.B. (2013), "Keeping Libraries Relevant in the Semantic Web with RDA: Resource Description and Access First appeared in
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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