Shared entity management infrastructure
For decades, OCLC has provided reliable infrastructure for OCLC numbers and authority records. Now, with financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we’re building a persistent, shared, and centralized entity management infrastructure for library linked data work.
When completed in December 2021, this infrastructure will include 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.
As always, we’re closely collaborating with the library community to fully understand and address needs. Our entity management infrastructure will be largely API-based, allowing librarians to customize their workflows around linked data opportunities. We will also create a basic user interface for librarians 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.
“Reliable identifiers...”
Latest updates
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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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Creating a shared entity management infrastructure
On January 9th, OCLC announced that we were awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to jointly fund the development of a shared entity management infrastructure over the next two years.
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 Minnesota Libraries
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
University of Tennessee Libraries
University of Victoria Libraries
Yale University Library
Have a question or want to get involved?
If you have a question or are interested in joining the advisory group to provide feedback, test APIs, or help with workflow creation as our work progresses, please contact us.
On-demand webinars
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.