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.
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
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On-demand webinars
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.