Linked data at oclc
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Massively collaborative library data and you.
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Your library data toolbox.
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What’s happening in the world of library linked data.
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Libraries and their users are participating in an exciting information ecosystem.
For many people, the most interesting options rely on data from many different areas. OCLC works both with member libraries and wide variety of partners in order to leverage collective data from the world’s libraries in ways that benefit scholarship, research, business and civic life.
WorldCat data and the WorldShare Platform provide the foundation—let’s build something fantastic together.
Linked Data for Libraries
Watch this short introduction to the concepts and technology behind linked data, how it works, and some benefits it brings to libraries.
Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web 20 years ago. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
Libraries and the Informational Future
Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC’s Vice President and Chief Strategist, writes about “Libraries and the Informational Future” for the Information Professionals 2050 Symposium, in June 2012 at the UNC School of Information and Library Science.