New Linked Data Book for Libraries, Archives and Museums

There’s a wonderful new book available that provides a useful overview of linked data principles and concepts that will help you understand and apply the knowledge you’ve been gathering over the past couple of years.

Seth van Hooland (Associate Professor in the Information and Communication Science Department at the Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Ruben Verborgh (Postdoctoral Researcher in Semantic Hypermedia at Ghent University) have written “Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums: How to Clean, Link and Publish your Metadata.”

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This entertaining little video sums up the content nicely.

And here’s the publisher’s blurb:

“This highly practical handbook teaches you how to unlock the value of your existing metadata through cleaning, reconciliation, enrichment and linking and how to streamline the process of new metadata creation.”

I’ve recently received a copy of the EU edition from Facet Publishing and have to say that it is the clearest description of the linked data process I have read to date. Read, for example, the chapter on database modelling to get a sense of the authors’ approach. Highly recommended!