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Authority Control For Digital Collections: Preparing For Linked Data, Jeremy Myntti, Nate Cothran

Faculty Publications

One of the first steps to preparing for Linked Data is to identify existing controlled vocabularies with URIs that can be used for representing strings of data. This project demonstrates how an automated authority control project is being used to match names and subjects within the University of Utah’s Digital Library with name and subject authority records available on the Library of Congress’ Linked Data Service.

Re-Discovering And Linking Metadata In Viewshare, Jeremy Myntti

Faculty Publications

How to enhance our existing interface

• New options for adding geographic data
• More faceting
• Unique pie charts
• Embed views from Viewshare in existing webpages

Authority Control In A Digital Repository: Preparing For Linked Data, Jeremy Myntti, Nate Cothran

Faculty Publications

In an effort to identify an automated means of updating and standardizing metadata within a digital collection, the University of Utah's Marriott Library and Backstage Library Works partnered to develop a service that would replicate the benefits of an automated MARC21 authority control project for digital library metadata. This paper will discuss how the process to update MARC21 bibliographic records was adapted to update data encoded in XML. Future directions for this project will include taking a close look at how it can be used to link URIs with strings of data in order to prepare for a linked data …