Shared entity management infrastructure
For decades, OCLC has provided reliable infrastructure for OCLC numbers and authority records. With financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and thanks to the dedication of our advisory group members and OCLC staff, we are wrapping up the initial work on a shared entity management infrastructure.
This infrastructure includes easily accessible authoritative descriptions of works and persons, enhanced and managed by OCLC and the library community. Connections to other external vocabularies will place library collections in a broader context across the web. We’re now collecting feedback from the advisory group on the tools we’ve built to work with the infrastructure. We will soon provide our final report to the Mellon Foundation, and we are evaluating the next steps with our stakeholders.
As always, we’re closely collaborating with the library community to fully understand and address needs. We plan to allow library staff to customize their workflows around linked data opportunities through new and powerful APIs. We will also offer a basic user interface for staff to create and manage entities.
No matter how far along your library is with using new data models (including BIBFRAME), or even if you wish to continue to work in MARC, you’ll see improved data quality and workflow efficiency as a result of this new entity management infrastructure.
Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur (ABES)
Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma
Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF)
Brigham Young University Library
British Library
Central Michigan University Libraries
Cleveland Public Library
Cornell University Library
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB)
Harvard University
National Library Board, Singapore
National Library of Medicine
National Library of New Zealand
New York University Libraries
Oxford University Libraries
Princeton University Library
Smithsonian Libraries
Temple University Libraries
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
University of California, Davis Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Minnesota Libraries
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
University of Tennessee Libraries
University of Victoria Libraries
Yale University Library
On-demand webinars
27 October 2021
OCLC and Linked Data: An update on infrastructure testing and linked data quality
Learn more about OCLC's recent linked data work and the impact it will have on the library community.
02 March 2021
OCLC and Linked Data: The transition to contextual metadata
Learn more about the impacts of contextual linked metadata on the library community.
29 July 2020
OCLC and Linked Data: Moving from research to reality
Highlighting OCLC’s linked data progress and its impact on the library community.
News
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Building a shared entity management infrastructure: Moving from promise to production
In this February 2021 presentation at the International Conference for Bibliographic Control in the Digital Ecosystem, OCLC’s John Chapman discussed the reasoning behind our shared entity management infrastructure initiative, our progress to date and...
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How your library will benefit from linked data
As we move toward new ways to create and share information about library collections, I believe that no matter what type of library you are associated with, you and your users will benefit from this project.
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New OCLC linked data recording and advisory group members
Be sure to watch our "Moving from research to reality" on-demand recording and welcome to our new advisory group members.
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International interest continues to grow in OCLC's Shared Entity Management Infrastructure
OCLC welcomes four new libraries from Europe and Canada to our advisory group.
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OCLC welcomes 20 libraries to Shared Entity Management Infrastructure advisory group
These public, academic, research and national libraries from around the globe are actively working with OCLC to share ideas, discuss workflows and provide testing feedback.
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