Publishing MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data as Linked Data With Provenance

Abstract

Publishing Bibliographic data as Linked Data into the Web of Data provides information that are rich in semantics and syntax. Linked Data approach allows machine to analyse the data without human intervention. Data becomes reusable and publicly revealed into the web. Such data are always shareable among different data sources. Data that are published into the Web of Data can be increased in size. In spite of having meaningful and structured data into the web, their metadata or provenance are available at a minimum rate. In order to provide the utility and the glimpse of the data, the enquiry such as, what a dataset will contribute, who published it, their access mechanisms and licensing information are essential for the data consumers. In this paper, we present an approach for publishing MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic data as Linked Data with Provenance. We believe that the provenance information will help data consumers, mainly in library domains, to determine the quality & uniformity of the bibliographic information.