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Exposing Missing Links: From Contentdm Digital Collections To The Linked Open Data Cloud, Silvia B. Southwick

Library Faculty Presentations

Agenda

• Linked Data basic concepts
• UNLV Linked Data project
• Technologies
• Transforming metadata into linked data
• Next steps

Survival Of The Fittest: The Evolving Nature Of Metadata Creation For Digital Collections, Silvia B. Southwick, Amy Hunsaker

Library Faculty Presentations

The evolving nature of metadata is exemplified through a pictorial timeline that expands over a decade, identifying the development of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries digital collections, the context of their development, and the various factors that emerged later on that have influenced revisions of metadata decisions.

Transforming Digital Collections Into Linked Data: The Rise Of Missing Links, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert

Library Faculty Presentations

Goals

• Study the feasibility of developing a common process that would allow the conversion of our collection records into linked data preserving their original expressivity and richness
• Publish data from our collections in the Linked Open Data Cloud to improve discover-ability and connections with other related data sets on the Web