Preparing for linked data in digital repositories
Sai Deng · Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research · 2016
This program will present the experiment of adding linked data values to the digital collections at the University of Central Florida Libraries in its digital repository and institutional repository (IR). Working with the Digital Initiatives and some faculty members, the Metadata Librarian in Technical Services has been adding Library of Congress linked data and Virtual Internarial Authority File data to the library's collections in CONTENTdm and its Digital Commons based IR. While these systems haven't been designed or updated to fully accommodate linked data yet, to add linked data values to the collection fields in these systems is preparing for linked data in the future. This presentation will also discuss non-catalogers' reaction to linked data and the collaboration between catalogers in Technical Services and non-catalogers within and outside of the library.