Disambiguating Descriptions: Mapping Digital Special Collections Metadata into Linked Open Data Formats

Jett, Jacob; Cole, Timothy W.; Han, Myung-Ja K.

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Title

Disambiguating Descriptions: Mapping Digital Special Collections Metadata into Linked Open Data Formats

Author(s)

• Jett, Jacob
• Cole, Timothy W.
• Han, Myung-Ja K.

Issue Date

2016

Keyword(s)

• Linked Open Data
• special collections
• digital special collections
• metadata

Abstract

In this poster we describe the Linked Open Data (LOD) for Digital Special Collections project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and describe some of the particular challenges that legacy metadata poses for representation in LOD formats. LOD formats are primarily based on the World Wide Web Consortium’s Resource Description Framework standard which demands both that entities be named by opaque universal identifiers whenever possible but also that metadata descriptions for entities be as unambiguous as possible. The challenges for disambiguating those descriptions are illustrated through examples drawn from digital special collections based at four different digital libraries

Publisher

Association of Information Science and Technology

Series/Report Name or Number

V. 53

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